My Top Ten Kavanagh QC Stories: No 10 Bearing Witness

Hello Everyone

Hope you all enjoyed seeing my top ten Morse stories last month and enjoyed watching them yourselves, so I decided to carry on and this month after the voting is my top ten Kavanagh QC stories. Like last month they will be counted down over the next ten days, feel free to join in watching them, and also let me know what you think of my choices or views on the episodes.

Bearing Witness… (First screened in the UK television on 7th April 1998, writer Edward Canfor-Dumas.) Kavanagh represents a Jehovah's Witness mother when a hospital wants her 13-year-old son to have a blood transfusion that will save his life.

When the mother refuses, Luke is made a ward of court and the hospital seeks judicial permission to go ahead with the transfusion. The hospital wins its action, and Luke is given a transfusion. Escaping from hospital with the help of his mother, Luke dies shortly afterward.

Then his father, prompted by a national newspaper, brings an action for manslaughter against his estranged wife, Kavanagh is called as a reluctant witness.

This is a very difficult story to pull off, and show you aren't with or against what Jehovah's people believe in, but in the hands of the cast and crew of Kavanagh there is no need to worry, this was done with both tenderness and compassion, a very good story.

The young actor who plays Luke (Joe Roberts) was very good, as was the entire cast, John sure had talent around him when he performed and that made whatever he did worth watching, as you knew you were watching the best.

One of my favourite scenes was where Jeremy was being chased by dogs, and when he headed back to the house and is sitting around the table telling them how he convinced them who he was by showing them his socks, i was in stitches laughing, brilliant scene!!