''Justice'' is a British

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, starring

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and

Gillian Kearney Gillian Louise Kearney

, that was broadcast from 4 to 8 April 2011, on

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. Pugh stars as Judge Patrick Coburn, the officiate of a community justice centre in his childhood home of Dovefield in

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. Kearney stars as Louise Scanlon, a local investigative journalist who becomes caught up in Coburn's efforts to bring local tearaway Jake Little (Jake Abraham) to justice. As well as featuring individual stories, the series features an ongoing story arc throughout all five episodes. As well as looking at the work of the justice centre, plotlines also look at Coburn's troubled past and the relationship with parish priest Father Jim Kelly (

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). The series was released on Region 1 DVD on 25 October 2011. No further series of ''Justice'' were commissioned, due to then-

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controller Danny Cohen claiming that there were "too many crime dramas on TV", and axing it alongside other BBC crime dramas, including ''

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''.

Cast

as Judge Patrick Coburn *

Gillian Kearney Gillian Louise Kearney

as Louise Scanlon *

as Father Jim Kelly *

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as Joe Gateacre * Jake Abraham as Jake Little *

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as Sharna Mulhearne *

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as Kaz Kenny *

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as Hayley Gosling *

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as Patrick "PD" Dempsey * Glenn Wild as Adam

Episodes

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