Is It Legal?
- TV sitcom
- ITV1 / Channel 4
- 1995 - 1998
- 21 episodes (3 series)
Solicitors Lotus, Spackman & Phelps is staffed by an almost entirely inept, but nevertheless well-meaning team - success is not their strongest point. Stars Imelda Staunton, Patrick Barlow, Richard Lumsden, Kate Isitt, Matthew Ashforde and more.
Press clippings
Is It Legal? is exquisitely British, the antidote to Oprah. All the solicitors are gnawed with the sharp teeth of desire. The effect is like indigestion bravely borne. The acting is extraordinarily good, from Bob (Patrick Barlow, who is half the National Theatre of Brent), to Darren (Matthew Ashforde), the essence of pubescence.
Nancy Banks-Smith, The Guardian, 10th December 1998