Original title
Street Legal
Released
1/6/1987
Origin country
CA
Genre
Drama
Production companies
CBC
Status
Ended
Number of seasons
9
Number of episodes
130
The professional and private lives of a group of young, aggressive attorneys in partnership together in a small downtown Toronto law firm. However they do not necessarily always see eye to eye on things.
After Ted Barr quits the firm, Chuck, Leon, and Carrie have to try to hold the law practice together as Carrie and Ted head towards divorce.
When Leon runs into an old flame from his days as a radical student, the two picks things up where they left off, and Leon is surprised to learn who the father of her daughter is. Carrie and Chuck fight to keep the firm in existance.
Carrie represents a prominient businessman against a charge of murdering his wife, but slowly learns the truth behind his motives for hiring her.
Desperate to add some excitement to his life, Chuck decides to abandon his practice and back the comeback of an aging boxer, but his lack of experience creates problems for both of them.
Chuck represents an emotionally disturbed 12-year-old boy who has been charged with the murder of his new stepfather and who several years before witnessed the suspicious accidental death of his father.
A young singer asks for Carrie's help in applying for landed immigrant status. Mercedes is shocked when she realises the immigration official is the same man who interrogated and tortured her in Brazil, and was responsible for the deaths of her husband and sister.
A streetwise young woman originally agreed to act as a surrogate mother for a wealthy Toronto couple, but when she changes her mind, Carrie represents her to give her a chance to keep her baby.
Leon's client not only opposes the Star Wars research program, but when she learns her husband is trying to sell her medical research program to an American company, fights to get it back. Chuck and Lisa are thrilled when they find out that she's pregnant.
Chuck agrees to defend his friend's teenaged son who is charged in a brutal gang beating of a gay man, but the youth refuses to giev the names of the others who were involved in the attack.
Carrie has trouble getting her life together after the husband who is charged with beating a client of hers attacks her at the office and she has to testify against him in court. Leon makes friends with a young Jamaican boy named Rollie and ends up learning a lot from him.
Carrie represents a man upset with the witness protection program. [1987]
Chuck is taken to trial over an incident in a young woman's hotel room...she claims that they slept together, he claims she kissed him and he turned her down. Carrie finally comes clean about her relationship with Jean-Marc to her co-workers.
Carrie is distraught when a problem client commits suicide, and her confident demeanor crumbles in the face of mounting work pressure.
Leon represents a doctor who has been charged with negligence in the death of a young girl during a routine operation.
Chuck's client, Monica Zubrekas, is suing the Lost and Lonely Hearts Club for setting her up on a less than desirable blind date, seeking damages against the business.
In a divorce case, Leon represents a stand- up comedian who is countersuing his wife for loss of humour.
Chuck manoeuvres his way into becoming president of a gold mining company, but after recklessly mortgaging his home to raise funds, he learns a prospector is making a claim on the company's most promising strike.
Leon takes the case of Jimmy and Carol, a young mentally-handicapped couple who want to live together despite her mother's preventing them from even seeing each other.
Leon defends an elderly client accused of destroying a beautiful Christmas display. Jean Marc tells Carrie he's going to Montreal for Christmas to be with his family. Lisa and Chuck's son, Adam, is born.
Disconsolate and angry about the suspicious shooting death of his brother by a prison guide, fellow inmate Tony Azzarello seeks advice from Carrie Barr.
Leon is asked to defend Ray Gilson, an American purse snatcher. Charged with first-degree murder in Florida, the black youth faces almost certain extradition and possibly the electric chair.
Chuck finds himself at odds with his partners and his wife when he represents the head of an anti-abortion group who has caused Joan Elliot to miscarry during a demonstration outside an abortion clinic.
Judge John Caldwell, who Carrie earlier accused of racism, hires her to defend him on a murder charge.
Leon is horrified when a TV newscaster names a juvenile offender he is representing on air which is not permitted under Canadian law.
Chuck's friend, Walter, wants Chuck to help him acquire funding for condos; Olivia's client is a wheelchair-bound actor who was rejected for a commercial for a handicapped-aid agency; Carrie agrees to go out with Nick.
A morbid young man, Dave involves his school friend Rob in the making of a video. But the project ends in tragedy when Dave is killed and Rob is charged with criminal negligence.
Conspiracy, sabotage and betrayal lead to tragedy for Leon's client a radical environmentist intent on saving a forest from destruction by a greedy land developer.
Carrie struggles with her personal and legal ethics while defending an unbalanced religious fanatic charged with murdering a prositute.
When Leon represents an old friend with AIDS in a divorce case, he expects the worst, but not from his partners. While his wife is out of town,Chuck asks Olivia out for a dinner, but at the end she gets an unexpected brush off. When Lisa returns, her and Chuck settle on trial separation.
As a challenge to each other, Olivia and Carrie swap cases to see if they can handle the types of cases the other usually handles. The results aren't what either one expected.
Carrie's client Wendel ""Sky"" Walker is a talented basketball star who may lose his college scholarship and a chance at the NBA as a result of a drug charge. Leon negotiates custody of a violin in a divorce settlement. Sparks fly between Chuck and Olivia as they represent a computer programer.
Chuck and Olivia try to help a young Mennonite who's been swindled out of five million dollars, but face stiff opposition from the con man's lawyer and the Mennonite community itself. Leon's defiance over the treatment of the homeless lands him in jail.
Carrie finally gets to meeet Nick's mother but suddenly she and Nick face the end of their relationship when Carrie proves that Mario Pestano, a father figure to Nick, is a corrupt cop.
Chuck becomes emotionally involved when he represents Angeline Chante, a 15-year-old model suing her mother. Leon helps a woman enforce her sister's living will. Olivia tells Carrie that she and Chuck are lovers.
Leon represents Ryan Lewis in an official-guardian case that calls into question the ancient Ojibway ritual of Dreamquest.
Carrie defends her young cousin Ricky Palmer twice before learning that he has been diagnosed as a paranoid schizophrenic.
Chuck's latest get-rich-quick scheme ends disasrrously when he is accused of conflict of interest and charged with fraud over a shady business deal. Olivia and Gloria expose a puppymill.
Tensions between Leon and Chuck esculate when they learn they are representing opposing sides in a land-development dispute.
Chuck's reckless business deals and his steamy affair with Olivia compel his estranged wife to apply for sole custody of their 2-year-old son.
When Barr, Robinovitch and Tchobanian teeter on the verge of bankruptcy, two solutions present themselves.
Carrie defends Sarah Melchuck, a young policewoman charged in the shooting death of a black man.
Against all odds, Leon fights a malpractice suit against a major manufacturer of contact lenses, on behalf of blinded professional photographer.
Carrie defends university professor Diane Abbot, a stoical single mother charged with criminal negligence in the accidental death of her infant son.
Chuck and Olivia's collaboration on the case causes a lot of professional and personal tensions.
Olivia runs into trouble when she agrees to represent a former boyfriend Steven Hines, who is trying to sell a documentary that could expose a powerful businessman's many criminal activities. Chuck's jealousy over Steven's visit drives him to have a short affair with a local socialite.
Tension and danger mount as Leon and Nick join forces to uncover proof that a champion Olympic rower committed a murder six years ago, and thereby clear the name of Leon's former client who was sent to jail for the crime.
Carrie agonizes over the fate of her client, a teenage gang member, accused of a fatal stabbing.
Leon champaigns the rights of factory workers who face layoffs due to the Canada-U.S. free-trade agreement.
Chuck is implicated in an insider-trading scheme with the wealthy father of Jennifer, his new 23-year-old admirer.
Carrie asks for beeper surveillance for her client Leah Davis after fighting to liberal custody, but when Leah skips town, Carrie becomes the legal guardian of her daughter, Kim. Chuck represents Jennifer's friend, a student who claims that she wrote a book with her late professor and wants acknowledgement. Leon agrees to represent Alana in her divorce trial.
Leon hasn't seen his father for ten years, but the man shows up just before Leon and Alana's wedding, and manages to get himself arrested. Chuck asks Olivia to represent a South African immigrant.
Just a few days before the wedding Leon takes on the immigration case of a Guatamalan waiter, but it turns into a criminal case when he is accused of robbing the restaurant he works in.
A newspaper opens itself up to libel charges when they accuse a wealthy Italian businessman of being involved in organized crime. Carrie takes a case where her client has been accused of arson. Olivia has to help her client keep something hidden.
Nick's partner is murdered, and Nick himself ends up in the hospital, which worries Carrie. Not only that, but Carrie gets tangled up in an ethical dilemma, and considers leaving criminal law. Things between Chuck and Olivia heat up when she admits to him how she feels.
Olivia and Chuck work together to make Olivia managing partner to give them financial control of the firm, but Carrie ends up getting the position. Carrie's friend Wendy looks for help in hiding her daughter from her abusive ex-husband. Leon's client lodges a suit against a cosmetic company.
Olivia's brothers show up in her life again, wanting to buy out Olivia's share of the family cottage, and end up getting themselves arrested for dealing animal parts. While Leon helps Nick's mother deal with a rental dispute, Alana decides to go after an open judge's seat.
Carrie has been falling in love with Dillon, but when she learns that he's prosecuting her client and friend, Wendy, for first degree murder, this puts a serious strain on their relationship. Leon makes a case against a dirty immigration lawyer.
In an attempt to impress a Hollywood producer she's representing, Olivia pits two unions against each other. Leon has to report a good friend to the law society, and Alana accepts the judge's seat.
Chuck discoves his son Adam is desoeratly ill and ex-wife Lisa flies him back to Toronto for treatment.
During a press conference called to announce his candidacy for mayor politician Kevin Coatsworth is served papers for sexual harassment.
Carrie enters a new dimension in criminal defense as she takes on the case of a young woman who contends she led police to the body of her murdered husband via a psychic vision.
Leon surprises everyone when he announces he intends to run for mayor, a decision Alana is less than enthusiastic about.
A priest friend of Leon's is arrested for concealing a terrorist, but Leon, fearing for his new political career, is reluctant to become invovled.
Wanda, the firm's recceptionist, finds herself in a dilemma when her father arranges that she marry Sujeet, a distant cousin from India.
Carrie's excitement at reaching the final stages of Kim's adoption is short- lives when Kim's natural grandparents show up to contest Carrie's application for custody.
Chuck becomes more and more obsessed with Olivia and her attention to producer Peter Garland, and hires Nick del Gado to track their activities.
Producer Peter Garland is found dead in his townhouse, and Chuck is arrested for his murder.
Chuck's case does not look hopeful and, in desperation, Chuck approaches Nick to do some investigating of his own.
Chuck learns Peter Garland hired a private investigator to look into the affairs of Johnny Marsh, and that Olivia was using the information to blackmail Marsh.
Carrie accepts Dillon's marriage propsosal. Marriage is not a happy affair for Alana and Leon, however.
Chuck's case is officially closed, but Carrie, Leon, and Olivia discover that Brent Elliot,the administrator of Stanley Wall's estate, is hiding something. Leon refuses to give Alana a divorce because he's not ready to give up yet. Olivia runs into danger when her client claims that his screenplay about a double murder is fact and not fiction.
Chuck is cleared of all charges and released from prison, but the controversy surrounding him has scared away all of his clients. The student is angered to learn the double-murder screenplay cannot be produced. Dillon tells Veronica that he's got marriage on his mind.
Leon battles a large chemical company that manufactures a substance he claims is killing his client, and Leon's impressive handling of the suit lands the firm a merger offer from high-powered international lawyer R.J. Williams.
Carrie and Alana struggle to keep their personal feelings in check at the trial of a sexual offender who preys on elderly women.
Tensions continue to rise between Dillon and Veronica when Dillon is assigned to prosecute a respected black community leader.
Carrie passes a case to Chuck, but he is ill-prepared, and his carelessness earns a first-time offender a stiff sentence. Dillon and Carry put off their wedding plans after a difficult case. Olivia represents aging trumpet player.
Olivia's father dies, leaving a sizeable estate to Olivia. Carrie defends Veronica on assault charge.
Olivia's mother, long-thought dead, suddenly appears on the scene to contest her late husband's will. Carrie and Kim go to Bermuda for a vacation.
Chuck defends Tran Quiy, a young man accused of a brutal, gang- related execution.
Olivia's inner turmoil affects a screenwriter's battle with a star. Leon gets confidential information. Chuck defends a patriotic protestor who was shooting at the cars at the border.
A cosmetic surgeon Leon meets at a casual golf game wants Leon to represent him in a divorce case, which he accepts at R.J.'s insistence. Chuck finally gets his revenge on Malony, and Olivia uses confidential information to win her case.
Phil Paley is arrested for polygamy, and hires Chuck and Leon to contest the law in a full- scale constitutional battle. Alana decides she wants a sports car and Olivia gets wealthy but very annoying client.
Leon finds a case right up his alley representing a military man who refused to obey orders for reason of conscience, and Leon himself refuses R.J.'s orders not to take the case. Just as R.J. is revealing his feelings for Olivia, Carrie has an attack of conscience, and decides she wants out of the merger.
It's just like old times as Barr, Robinovitch and Tchobanian prepare to set up shop again now that R.J. Williams is out of the picture.
Olivia's dreams comes true when R.J. offers her a partnership in his Los Angeles office, but she is torn when he sues BR&T for breach of contract. Carrie and Dillon finally get married.
The battle between R.J. Williams and Barr, Robinovitch and Tchobanian rages on. Chuck needs to request a second autopsy in a case. Carrie is killed by a hit and run driver.
Leon and Chuck are trying to deal with their grief. Laura offers her help to both but they initially refuse. After Leon breaks down in court while battling R.J. Williams, he hands the case to Laura, and she officially joins the firm. With some help from Rob, Leon gets new evidence that help him defeat R.J. Chuck is trying to fight for his client, and despite death treat, wins his murder case with a surprise twist.
Olivia finds out that she's pregnant and the baby can be only Chuck's. Consequently she refuses R.J.'s marriage proposal and doesn't move to California. She asks to be taken back to BRT and tells Chuck about the baby. Laura joins as a new partner, as well as Rob. And at the end Olivia is welcomed 'home'.
Olivia awaits the birth of her child and tries to sort out the future of her relationship with Chuck. A lawyer is charged with murdering a judge. Rob suspects R.J. of slandering him to ruin his practice.
Olivia gives birth to a baby girl. Chuck and Laura discover their attraction is mutual.
Rob accepts an assignment from Christian Pevril, one of the richest, most powerful men in the country, and who expects Rob to be as ruthless as necessary to get him what he wants.
Olivia reveals her new career as a movie producer and argues with Chuck over the impact her plans will have on Emily.
The future of Leon and Alana's marriage is in doubt as they argue over having children.
Chuck steals a high- profile case from Laura, but finds himself caught between his conscience and his duty as a lawyer.
Olivia shops for two million dollars when a major investor pulls out of her movie.
As Leon attempts to gain asylum for a feisty Mexican terrorist/ refugee, his biggest challenge is to keep her from indicting herself in the process.
Laura helps a family, wrongly accused of sexual abuse, to keep their child.
Rob discovers some disturbing facts from his family's past when he tries to help his schizophrenic brother.
Chuck presents Olivia with a bill in for losses due to her interference in the Bedal case.
Chuck's winning streak gets him hired by a top corporate lawyer whose son has been charged with a racially- motivated killing of a black police officer.
Eva Paredes persuades Leon to represent a young Guatemalan soldier who claims he was forces to serve in the army against his will and is now seeking asylm in Canada.
Rob represents the ex-wife of Russell's funeral home director. Olivia turns to Chuck for help when an explosion injures a crew member and Tom is charged with criminal negligence. Chuck asks Olivia to marry him, but Olivia turns him down. Dillon, much improved, and Mercedes continue to see each other. Malony becomes increasing possessive of Laura. Leon receives notice he's under investigation from the Law Society.
Chuck defends a gambler accused of embezzling money to play the lottery; the investigation of Leon's immigration practice becomes more serious when Mendez suddenly disappears. Eugenia calls Chuck when Emily develops a fever and she can't reach Olivia. Tom presses Olivia to convince Deborah that a rewritten scene containing nudity makes the picture better. Olivia is reluctant, but Rob convinces Deborah to take another look at it. Brian continues to pursue Laura. Alana finds out she's pregnant.
Leon defends his immigration practice before the Law Society. Chuck and Olivia take their custody battle to court. Olivia is upset at Eugenia's testimony and fires her on the spot. Tom returns to Toronto to help take care of Emily. The judge leaves Emily in Olivia's custody. The RCMP is investigating Rob investments for Tassos Demetrious as possible money laundring. Mercedes surprises Dillon by arranging to have his daughters come to visit.
More problems erupt around Olivia's film project as Rob is arrested by the RCMP for money laundering and the police seize the film, Charlotte Percy is suing for defamation and the uranium company sues for libel. Leon and Chuck team up to prevent Leon's disbarrment (Leon's been a member of the bar for 14 years); Alana has a miscarriage. Tom proposes to Olivia and she accepts.
Olivia announces she's giving up the movie business to go back to practising law. Leon hears the Law Society's decision. Olivia's movie opens; Chuck interferes in hers and Tom's wedding plans and at the end Olivia picks another man to marry.
Chuck and Olivia are returning from their honeymoon to a crazily busy office. Leon was desperately trying to find Eva but wasn't succeeding. Laura expresses her frustration by confronting Olivia about her contribution to the firm. And Olivia takes their competition to a next level by proposing that whoever doesn't make $60,000 in three month has to leave the firm. Leon is in luck because Eva makes her way to Toronto and gives him hope to be reinstated to the bar.
Eva Paredes' testimony exonerates Leon, and his disbarment is revoked.
Olivia and Laura are hot in competition, each scrambling to beat the other's earnings.
Laura takes the case of a fifteen year old boy accused of murdering his abusive mother, as Alana presides. Rob's relationship with his client prove to be more difficult than he expected. Leon is approached by the Human Rights Commission to be adjudicator. Jack Driscoll questions Chuck about his professional ethics. Leon and Alana consider adopting an older child. Valerie Sanducci starts working in the office.
Leon fights for Iona Davis, a nurse who claims she was passed up for promotion because of racism on the part of her supervisor.
Laura takes the parole case of child molester Adam Ruskin. Malony, meanwhile, is working overtime to prevent Ruskin's release.
Malony's continued interference in the Adam Ruskin case leads to violence, and Laura is put in serious danger.
Chuck defends a stockbroker accused of being a pimp; Ben moves in with Leon and Alana; Malony visits Laura in the hospital. Rob's client, Pauline, is accused of stealing her former boss' clients; Olivia appears on a morning show and is offered a permanent spot.
Olivia loses her talk show job in a scuffle with the network when she represents a television journalist who refuses to name his source.
A cross-border cigarette smuggler accused of murder claims he's been set up by police. Chuck goes to his defense... for the right price.
Leon takes the case of a woman terrorized by her husband; Rob handles a heated real-estate dispute. Laura comes back to work. Paul apologizes to Alana. Theo comes to Rob looking for business advice. The RCMP is asking questions about Jack Driscoll. Chuck gives Olivia an emerald he brought from Brazil for her wedding ring and tells her he's opened a $50,000 account in the Caymans with money Jack Driscoll gave him.
In a final act of desperation, abused wife Joan Millman kills her husband. Leon asks Chuck to defend her; Alana and Leon need professional help for Ben.
Olivia represents a woman journalist denied a news anchor position; Leon defends survivors of a mine disaster; Chuck's plans for the firm are rejected
Leon becomes passionately involved in the Hellbrum mining case when he is convinced that management neglect caused the death of 14 miners. Laura defends Rob's cousin, an officer accused of assaulting a prostitute. Chuck worries about the firm. Olivia helps a jounalist get his stolen property back from the police.
Olivia fights a lawyer who denied a woman partnership in his firm; Leon gains ground in the miners' case. BRT & Assosiates vote in favor of taking the Hellbrum case and Chuck resigns.
Leon and Rob concentrate on the miners' case; Alana makes an unusual ruling in a child custody case.
Chuck's and Leon's tempers flare in open court as the battle over the Hellbrum case heats up to the final verdict. Leon loses his star witness; Olivia meets an old enemy on an AIDS task force she may join; Alana makes a controversial speech.
When Olivia discovers Arthur Locke has joined the AIDS Task Force only to further his political career, she vows to force him off the committee. Leon's win in the miners' case brings both stability and questions; Paul Desmond faces a sexual harassment charge. Chuck tries to get back with Olivia, but winds up heading for Vancouver.
Olivia prepares to file a lawsuit against a drug manufacturer, but before she's able to, a startup firm steals the case from under her.
Lilly searches for her friend's parents; Mina is haunted by the death of a client. Olivia and Hal battle over the case.
Mina takes on a client who keeps making things worse. Adam responds to a call from his mother. Olivia gets a surprise visitor.
Olivia and Mina meet up with a familiar face in Montreal. Lilly and Adam search for a new witness.
A judge passes away; Leon arrives. The class-action case heads to trial.
The defense presents their case. RDL and Olivia clash over strategy.
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