A murdering barrister frames one of his clients.

The events leading up to the murder of devious barrister Nicholas Chadwick (Nigel Havers) are seen in flashback

Murder in Mind 9.00pm BBC1
Flashback, a cunningly constructed episode of this occasional crime drama series, starts with the murder of its central character - smooth barrister and High Court judge-to-be Nicholas Chadwick (played by Nigel Havers - who else?). So it's immediately obvious that the rest of what turns out to be a very entertaining hour will be spent looking at why anyone would wish to do such a dreadful thing to someone who appears to be a pillar of the judiciary. Naturally it turns out Nicholas Chadwick QC is a bit of a rotter. He has a lovely, poised wife and a very comfortable lifestyle, which includes regular and costly sexual liaisons with high-class prostitute Angela Stephenson (played by Patsy Kensit, mainly in her nightie). The entire episode comprises a series of flashbacks, a conceit that can be very tiresome in dramas but which works well in this case, even though viewers will have to keep up with an awful lot of changing time frames.
But things mesh together very well as a whole series of seemingly unconnected events finally makes a satisfying whole. Thus we watch Chadwick botch a court case in which a low-level villain, Stuart Jackson (Jamie Foreman), is imprisoned for a murder he - very convincingly - says he did not commit. But the evidence is overwhelming, so if Jackson is innocent, how come his fingerprints all over the murder scene?
And as for the comely Ms Stephenson - she turns out to be a grasping and greedy young miss whose retirement plans prove very costly in a way she does not expect. Though Patsy Kensit doesn't have much to do apart from pout and pose languidly in her dimly lit flat- which for some reason is decorated like a Moroccan restaurant - she provides just the right amount of satin-clad glamour.