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[W]e should never lose sight of the fact that even a person accused of the most heinous crimes, and no matter the likelihood that he or she actually committed those crimes, is entitled to the full protection of the [law]. Short-cutting or short-circuiting those rights affects not only the accused, but also the entire reputation of the criminal justice system.
—Decision of the Canadian Supreme Court in R. v. Burlingham, [1995] 2 S.C.R. 206.
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Watch the lawyers do their thing. Commonly known as a Courtroom Drama.
When it only lasts a single episode, it's a Courtroom Episode.
Examples of Law Procedural include:
- Ally McBeal
- Boston Legal
- Conviction
- Damages, though it virtually has no scenes in actual courtrooms
- Fairly Legal
- Family Law
- The Firm
- Franklin and Bash
- Garrows Law
- The Good Wife
- Harry's Law
- JAG
- The Australian series Janus.
- Judging Amy
- Just Cause
- To Kill a Mockingbird
- Kingdom
- LA Law
- The second half of Law and Order (See Police Procedural for the first half)
- Matlock
- Murder One
- Perry Mason (the ur-example)
- Presumed Innocent
- Phoenix Wright is a Video Game example.
- The Practice
- The Rainmaker
- Raising the Bar
- Rumpole of the Bailey
- Sad Cypress
- Shark
- Silk
- Suits
- The Whole Truth