the traditional first scene to show how tough and cool liza wang is supposed to be is kinda flawed IMO.

Those children says they want to sue their own mother for not being a rightfully wedded to their father. But if they win, they will also be non-official children, meaning that the money should be equally distributed again according to their relationship to the father which would make their mother to have an equal right again...

not really true. The deceased dad is the (biological) father of the 3 children, so that makes them qualified for the inheritance.

Their argument is, their mom is not the law-full wife of their dad, which makes her unqualified for the inheritance. ( they didn't have marriage certificates and etc)...

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yeah i agree with the above reply. Theres proof that the children is the man's because it probably says so on the birth certificate. They are arguing that since shes not lawfully married, she doesn't get the will so it would be distributed to the children. But just because the mother isnt lawfully married, doesn't mean their children don't get the will because they are lawfully his children. Its like, if the guy has an affair with another woman and hav a son and they could prove that the son is his, then he gets the right to the will but not the woman because they are not married

extra note: The father{ biological, adoptive , surrogate , etc} is the one which the mother acknowledges as the father of the children.

But their is one uncertainity i have on the case, under family law there is such thing as "De facto" relationships (ie. a man and woman living together in a bond fide domestic relationship). Since the decreased man has not erected a will, then the woman is able to claim she is the spouse to this man under British/Australian law ... im not too sure if the rules of hk are applied the same. So there is really no need for the children to be included .. as she can just claim her matter under public law ... and then once she is the acknowledged mother she can fight for will disturbution as a private law issue?

I don't like how Liza Wang's character win the case. I mean, the case is about whether the mother is the legal wife of the deceased. Why is Liza Wang arguing about family values and how her client is a good mother? How can that help the case? How can that prove the mother is the legal wife?

LOL ME TOO! I THOUGHT IT WAS STUPID LOL. Because in the modern world today, no one's going to give a sh*t about your past life with whomever. They're just probably going to tell you to shut up. It was pointless and stupid when she talked about herself like it was all sad.

emmm... Liza already proof that her client is lawfully married with her husband as she had mentioned that tradisional marriage also is one kind of lawfully marriage... She talked about the family values is hope to make her client's children realize that what they doing is wrong as they're sue her mother for the inherit... some more suspect their mother try to murder her husband for it... plus she try to make the judge believe that what her cllient's children doing is wrong and make the decision that her client can share the inherit together with her children

i think that liza's long story about her past would probably be irrelevant in reality because it clearly has no bearing on the issue of the case la..just like the carp story that sammul told...but after all this is a tv series so they will up the emotional factor otherwise the court scences will be very boring so i just try to watch it with thinking too much

it was weird..she lied about the mom dying..i was like aww..how sad...then later on when she went outside..she looks all happy that she won the case and stuff..it's like omgosh..what a great actress

I wonder if those history lessons are allowed in real courtroom. They seem really irrelevant. Like the carp story. Dick's explaination is convincing enough already. The carp story doesn't add any strength to his argument, unlike, say, statistics from a pschological study.

yeah.. are they actually allowed? cause they're so stupid and has no factual info about it so its really stupid.

i dunno how true this case is.. with the facts and stuff.. but the part of liza telling everybody that her mom died and she still insisted on appearing in court.. was supposed to be touching.. but i found it corny. was that reallie supposed to help the case?