Rafferty's Rules

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3x1
Nine Tenths Of The Law
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Michael wrestles with the concept of possession after the discovery of Aboriginal remains creates a conflict of ownership between the state and the Indigenous community.
3x2
Freedom
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Michael is caught between a rock and a hard place when he is forced to decide the fate of a young boy whose doctors believe is sick, but whose parents are refusing further tests on religious grounds.
3x6
Confessions
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A series of sexual assaults has consequences for the courthouse when the police fit up suspects and Paulyne is attacked in her own home.
3x3
Those Who Can
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Fulvio learns that his teacher and idol isn't quite the perfect magistrate that he thought after he takes over when Michael falls ill.
3x4
Sense of Duty
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The courthouse becomes the centre of the fallout from a Secret Intelligence Agency training exercise.
3x5
One For The Road
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Gibson faces his past after a series of alcohol-related prosecutions force him to confront the reasons he gave up drinking.
3x7
Horse Play
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Paulyne finds that her personal life is mirroring her professional life when her former lover Gavin reappears and announces that he is getting married, just as she is defending a woman who refuses to accept that her marriage is over.
3x8
Truth's A Dog
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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.
3x9
The Great Divide
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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.
3x10
Quantity Of Mercy
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Rafferty is confronted with the limitations of the law when it comes to dispensing justice.
3x11
Peace Of Mind
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The courthouse finds itself becoming caught up in the deadly web of a cult. Michael is shocked when he goes on an early morning run and discovers the body of a young woman washed up on the beach.
3x12
Thursday The Twelfth
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Michael takes responsibility for a foreign woman after she shows up on his doorstep.
3x13
Friends And Neighbours
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A heatwave frays tempers at the courthouse when everyone arrives at work to find the air-conditioning broken.
3x14
The Fleet's In
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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.
3x15
Family
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Rafferty's 6 year old son goes missing.
3x16
Crispin's Day
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The Bard comes into the courtroom when an elderly man reciting Shakespeare is arrested for busking without a licence.
3x17
Mum's The Word
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Michael's hopes of reuniting with his estranged wife are dashed when Joanne reveals that she has come to visit to end their relationship, and then their son falls ill.
3x18
Brief Candles
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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.
3x19
The Deep End
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New Legal Aid solicitor Lisa Blake starts work at the courthouse; however, she soon finds herself coming into conflict with Michael when she grandstands in the courtroom, then fails to fully prepare a case in mitigation for a defendant.
3x20
A Matter Of Circumstances
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A journalist sets out to prove that corruption exists in Rafferty's court.
3x21
Waifs And Strays
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Lisa continues to have problems settling in, with her abrasive nature putting Michael offside.
3x22
The Beast
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Lisa begins to wonder whether evil does exist when she defends a sociopath.
3x23
Systems
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The entire courthouse struggles to cope when Michael is forced to decide whether a man accused of murder has a case to answer.
3x24
Those Who Can't
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Lisa defends a young man who seems to be heading for the same life of crime as his father once did, but she refuses to believe Ray Brown's claims that the father's intentions are anything but honourable.
3x25
Blood Relations
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Michael's world is turned upside down after learning that he has a twenty-two year old daughter from a previous relationship.
3x26
Star Quality
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Flicker's prosecution against a young policeman who has broken the law is complicated when he begins to recognise that something even more suspicious is going on.
3x27
Private Lives
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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.
3x28
You Can Never Tell
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A criminal nicknamed 'The Hairy Bandit' is causing havoc and the courthouse is feeling the impact.
3x29
The Affair That Never Was
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Michael's divorce from Joanne officially comes through, just as former Public Solicitor Paulyne Gray reappears in his life after a six month absence.
3x30
Curtains For Ringo
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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.

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