Sydney's Downing Centre and the twelve magistrates who preside, hears over 30,000 cases each year - from minor traffic offences to major assaults. This groundbreaking fixed-rig series takes you inside of one of the world's busiest local courts. It is a world full of emotion and drama, where bad behaviour comes face-to-face with the justice system. With the endless stream of defendants that ranges from habitual offenders to everyday citizens that have made bad mistakes, the courts force them to realise the error of their ways.—CrimeSeries Fan

For the first time on Australian television, cameras are allowed inside Australia's busiest local court complex - The Downing Centre in Sydney. This observational documentary series gives viewers an exclusive behind-the-scenes look into the daily dramas facing the Magistrates as they hear all kinds of cases from drug matters and drink driving, to assault, theft, fraud, and vandalism. The range of human stories is as broad as society itself. Defendants are rich and poor, young and old, serial offenders and first-timers. The only constant is that they are all equal in front of the law, and when the magistrates pass their final judgments, lives change forever.—CJZ