Just finished -- finally -- my eight episode series for television titled "Sharpe Practice". Synopsis as follows:

Sharpe Practice is a gritty drama set on Queensland’s Gold Coast, charting a young woman’s journey from a troubled childhood in London to her dream job at the Gold Coast’s leading law firm.

Sam had a difficult upbringing which included six months in an English young offenders’ institution, but when she emerged, she’d aged ten years, vowing she would never return to her old life. Gifted with an intelligence that belied her background, she caught up on missed schooling, crammed several years’ education into one and gained top A-level marks.

By the time Sam left England to pursue her dream of a new life in Australia, she’d become a lawyer specialising in litigation.

Getting the job at Sangster, Collins & Associates wasn’t easy. Her supervising partner, Murray Rix, was vehemently against employing someone in their prestigious firm with her track record. But senior partner, Gavin Mellon, saw promise in this tenacious tearaway who’d turned her life around to an extraordinary extent.

After months of being overlooked for promotion, being given pro bono and low value cases and generally regarded by Murray as a dogsbody, with Gavin’s help she takes over a major case: Axis Holdings v Pan Arabian Bank.

But her enthusiasm for the case wanes when she discovers that the bank has links to the Iran-backed, Lebanese terrorist group, Hezbollah.

When the bank realises that neither Sam nor her clients will be intimidated into submission, with the help of its “consultant”, Adeem Al-Jabiri, it goes to extraordinary lengths to extricate itself from the litigation.

But it underestimates Sam’s resolve. A series of murders, the kidnapping of a partner’s child, the savage beating of another partner, terrorising car chases and even the incineration of Sam’s residence – none of it forces her to quit.

Sam’s ambition to succeed comes at a cost. Her partner, Ryan Shaw is unhappy at the hours she spends at the office and, as the litigation progresses, their relationship becomes strained, particularly when Sam discovers that Ryan left his last fiancé at the altar. But she struggles on, determined to succeed.

Just when Sam feels she has done enough to be elevated in the firm, Gavin, the one person who has been fighting her corner, is arrested for mortgage fraud.

Sharpe Practice explores one woman’s quest for truth, honesty and justice in a profession that sometimes forgets what it stands for.