Flicker's replacement finds he has to play it by Rafferty's rules.

Rafferty's court is thrown into turmoil by a mysterious thief in Rafferty's office.

Rafferty is confronted by a case involving vandalism on a building site.

The police are called in to protect Rafferty when he starts receiving threats.

Rafferty, embroiled in what local papers call "the punk drug squatters assault case", faces a housing crisis of his own and deals with the by-products of a cashless society: credit card junkies.

Fulvio learns that his teacher and idol isn't quite the perfect magistrate that he thought after he takes over when Michael falls ill.

A series of sexual assaults has consequences for the courthouse when the police fit up suspects and Paulyne is attacked in her own home.

Paulyne accuses an insurance company of racism when they report a Lebanese man to the police after he claims his precious rings were stolen just days after taking out a policy.

Michael, Paulyne and Gibson find their ethics challenged when they deal with a man accused of raping his wife; however, it soon becomes apparent to all that the case is far more sinister than they ever could have imagined.

A heatwave frays tempers at the courthouse when everyone arrives at work to find the air-conditioning broken.

The personal and the professional converge for Flicker when the anti-nuclear group his son is involved in begins protesting the arrival of nuclear warships.

An unexpected tragedy forces Paulyne to re-evaluate her life; meanwhile she struggles to remain objective while defending a man accused of manslaughter over the death of a pedestrian.

Lisa begins to wonder whether evil does exist when she defends a sociopath.

The entire courthouse struggles to cope when Michael is forced to decide whether a man accused of murder has a case to answer.

More than one life is on the line after a former children's television performer is charged with propositioning young boys for sex in the changing rooms of a local swimming pool.

A criminal nicknamed 'The Hairy Bandit' is causing havoc and the courthouse is feeling the impact.

Michael considers his attitudes towards both politics and rural life after his cousin comes to the city, having now been elected to Parliament and holding very different opinions to Michael.