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

Robert rose from his chair. This was it. 'Your Honour, this is, as the Crown says, the first conviction against my client, albeit a serious one.' He held a sheaf of papers. 'I have a dozen statements from colleagues, employers and school teachers attesting to Russell Montgomery's character as a likeable, dependable and honest young man.'


'You've prepared a psychiatric report?'


Robert turned to the sheriff's officer. 'I call Dr Roma Lightfoot.'


As the outer doors parted the hubbub of a multitude was heard. Potential jurors for the following trial were gathering. Niemen clicked his tongue. He was not in a good mood. Robert thought of Elisabeth as Dr Lightfoot made her way to the witness box.


'Dr Lightfoot, you're a senior consultant in psychiatry at Canberra Hospital.'


'You have examined the prisoner for the purpose of sentencing.'


'Yes. I examined him twice at your request.'


Chapter 92: No reprieve