Elisabeth Sharman has a secret.
As a senior solicitor with the Australian Capital Territory Legal Aid Office she's defending a 19 year old with amnesia. He can't remember committing the murder for which he's on trial. Or says he can't.
Robert Murphy has a problem: Elisabeth.
He's her instructing solicitor and she's not playing by the legal rules. She's new to the office. No-one knows her modus operandi. But it's more, much more, than an unusual methodology.
She's using her feminine wiles with him - to good effect - and he's afraid her motives aren't pure.
Will the secret, when revealed, explain everything? Or will the result be catastrophic?
#mild sex, 13+
'A legal affair' is created by Alana Woods, an eGlobal Creative Publishing Signed Author.

A Legal Affair

She became even more serious. 'I can't tell you that Russell is going to be acquitted. We've been through this and nothing has changed. They have an eyewitness and we don't have a case because Russell can't remember and therefore can't give us his version. Like I've already said, the only thing we can do is work on the inconsistencies and raise doubts. They've got to prove intent and they have only one hysterical witness to rely on. Richards knows what I'm trying to do. With his own witnesses he has the advantage of being able to re-examine them after I've finished. So he can take the witness back over everything I've raised and try to give reasonable explanations.' It was not helping. 'But we have the same advantage with our witnesses.'


Ray was the only Montgomery thinking. 'But the defence witnesses are only character witnesses.'


Elisabeth said 'Ray' on an outward breath.


Chapter 44: Let's not get ahead of ourselves