Newton's Law

Completed

Newton’s Law is an eight-part drama series that centers around Josephine Newton, a suburban solicitor with an over-developed sense of responsibility who attempts to return to her briefly glorious stint at the Bar. 

When Josephine’s low-flying solicitor’s practice is incinerated by a disgruntled client, she is persuaded by her old uni friend and not-so-secret admirer, Lewis Hughes, to trade the benefits of her brilliant mind for a berth in the lofty glamour of Knox Chambers. With her office destroyed, her marriage collapsing and motherhood fast losing its charm, Josephine decides it’s time to take her own aspirations off the back burner and resume her barrister’s robes.

If only it were that easy to leave her old life behind!

Newton’s Law promises to be the Upstairs, Downstairs of legal dramas. The series premiered on ABC TV in February 2017. 

Format: TV Series
Genre: Comedy / Drama
Length: 8 x 1hr
Year: 2016
Story Producer: Deb Cox   Producer: Fiona Eagger
Co-Producer: Anna Molyneaux
Executive Producers: Fiona Eagger & Deb Cox
Executive Producers for the ABC: Brett Sleigh & Alastair McKinnon
Investors: The Australian Broadcasting Corporation, Screen Australia and Film Victoria
Broadcast & Distribution: To be broadcast on ABC TV, and distributed by ABC Commercial
Cast: Claudia Karvan, Toby Schmitz, Georgina Naidu, Sean Keenan, Brett Tucker, Miranda Tapsell, Jane Hall, Freya Stafford, Andrew McFarlane, Ming-Zhu Huii, Will Ewing, Grant Piro, Ella Newton and Makwaya Musudi