The main characters of Jack Temple Guilty

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Jack Temple - senior clerk - Jack's roots were in the East End where he learnt to be streetwise and how to fight to keep his job and chambers together in difficult times.

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Jason Middleton – Deputy Senior Clerk - Jack’s deputy Jason was ambitious but willing to learn from Jack, going on clandestine missions to get the upper hand.

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Christian Bennett - 1st Junior Clerk - Known as Gordon [Bennett], at times a little naive, enjoyed the banter of an all male clerks’ room.

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Dillon Hart – Junior Clerk - A bit of a lad with the ladies, often punching above his weight in that department. Lacking in maturity which he needed to learn from his seniors and betters.

 

Jenny James - Junior clerk - When Jack introduced the first female clerk Jenny into the testosterone atmosphere of the Barcourt Chambers clerks’ room, everything changed.

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Members of Barcourt Chambers include:

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Sarah Ryman - a bright young barrister with a secret past who is seemingly caught red handed taking drugs in chambers by Nathan Blake, a jealous contemporary of hers. He plots with colleagues in the tap room of their local pub, the Red Lion, to have her expelled from chambers.

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The Head of chambers, Charles Wadsworth QC does not handle the situation well and alienates some of the chambers management committee, especially the well-respected James Campbell who sees Wadsworth as the weakest link.

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Christine Denton, an attractive vivacious barrister who plays the game of hide and seek with her clerks on a daily basis.

 

Nicola Mortimer QC, an elegant personal injury barrister from competing chambers. Jack wants her to become the new head of chambers, much to the disgust of Tom Wallace, a senior member of chambers. He is old school and a senior member of the management committee. He makes it his mission to have Jack removed from chambers.

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Elizabeth Richardson – Solicitor client of Barcourt Chambers. Jack has a long running affair with this female solicitor.