Garrow's Law: Tropes

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• Stock PunishmentRare · in 34 titlesIn an entirely serious example of this trope, Garrow exposes Forrester, a professional "thief-taker" - basically a man who is paid to fit people up - as a perjurer.Read →
• Eternal Sexual FreedomRare · in 35 titlesIn the episode where Garrow defends a man charged with sodomy; the man faces the death penalty, but Garrow does not appear to be fazed at all when the man reveals to him that he is guilty of the crim…Read →
• The Perry Mason MethodRare · in 55 titlesNearly all of Garrow's cases involve his winning by exposing the guilt of another party- sometimes the actual perpetrator, sometimes a corrupt accuser, and sometimes a party acting behind the scenes.Read →
• Bounty Hunterin 284 titlesThief takers. At the time, Britain had very few public police, so most crimes were investigated and "solved" by thief takers for reward money.Read →
• Unishmentin 175 titlesIn one episode, Garrow rebuts a charge of forced sodomy by showing the accused and accuser were lovers, and the two are reconciled in the process.Read →
• All Crimes Are Equalin 173 titlesNot quite, but the series does take place in the time of the infamous "Bloody Code", which prescribed the sentence of death for no less than 220 crimes, some of them truly bizarre to modern ears (ste…Read →