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The first episode introduces four bar vocational course students – Catherine, Kakoly, Iqbal and Anna (pictured above) – whose progress will be tracked through the series. None of them fit the white, public schoolboy stereotype. Through them the viewer learns about the traditions of mooting, dining and call night at Middle Temple. They also demonstrate the hurdles faced by aspiring barristers – and the fierce competition in which only one in five will attain his or her dream (and a huge graduate debt). The cameras also follow prosecution junior Richard ‘Dickie’ Bond of Birmingham’s Citadel Chambers through a riot and murder trial. He introduces the viewer to a modern clerks room and the more rarefied atmosphere of the robing room. Future episodes will reveal the work of family and civil barristers as well as more crime work, with unprecedented access to the courts – cameras are on almost until the moment the judge comes in.