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An industrial accident at a recycling plant leaves a young man mentally and physically impaired. Kavanagh goes to court to secure a fair settlement from the insurance company for the family.

Young David Lomax is crushed by equipment at the recycling plant where he was working and ends up in a wheel-chair with physical and mental damage. Whilst the employers have always claimed it was David's own fault for not observing procedure, his devoted and dogged mother pushes for compensation and ultimately Kavanagh is able to impress upon an honest employee, whose recent bereavement made him a prey to suggestion, to tell the truth in David's favour.—don @ minifie-1

A college student (David Lomax) doing a summer vacation job at a dockside containerbase is badly injured after an accident involving a container that was partially open. Kavanagh acts for him in a damages claim but three full-time employees of the firm conspire to allege that the boy was negligent and that he was not as badly hurt as he claims. In the meantime Jeremy Aldermarten has applied to become a Queen's Counselor (QC) and Julia Piper is preparing to leave the chambers. Kavanagh meets a potential replacement for Piper's job and remembers her from previous encounters, not favourably. At home, Kavanagh has a problem with his son who wants a motorcycle but the compromise has an unexpected result.