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| - The actress Hettie Chattell believes she has been libeled by gossip printed in the Daily Mail, but when Marshall Hall agrees to represent her - and wins - he incurs the wrath of the newspaper's owner, Alfred Harmsworth . (en)
- Lady Frances Fairbrother engages Arthur Newton to arrange the defence of her maid, Annie Dyer , who is accused of killing her baby, who was actually the illegitimate child of Lady Frances's husband, Captain James Fairbrother . Bowker tries to decline the brief, fearing it will bring back memories of Marshall Hall's unhappy marriage to Ethel , who died during a botched illegal abortion after an affair with Lieutenant de Ponthieu . (en)
- Marshall Hall defends Robert Wood , accused of murdering Emily "Phylis" Dimmock in the case that became known as the Camden Town Murder. (en)
- Marshall Hall defends womaniser and conman Herbert Bennett , who is accused of murdering his estranged wife, Mary , at Great Yarmouth. (en)
- Marshall Hall travels to the Black Country to defend Edward Lawrence , a wealthy and popular brewer accused of killing his mistress, Ruth Hadley . (en)
- After a period of illness, Marshall Hall needs a case to both bring in much-needed funds, and to re-establish himself in the public eye. Reluctantly he agrees to represent Lady Scott in a criminal libel action brought by Lord Russell , the husband of her daughter, Lady Mabel , having accused him of being homosexual. This horrifies Marshall Hall's fiancée, Henriette Froeger . (en)
- Having successfully defended the flamboyant publisher Horatio Bottomley against a charge of fraud, Marshall Hall is offered the brief for Hawley Harvey Crippen , accused of murdering his wife . (en)
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