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Some shocking on-the-job training presents itself to students at Seoul’s Hankuk University in Law School (Netflix, series one now streaming).

Working diligently to become the next generation of servants to the South Korean legal system, the students are conducting a mock trial when their carefully choreographed courtroom drama is interrupted by a real crime: murder.

The victim, found behind the scenes at the university’s imitation court, is one of their own, a former chief prosecutor and lately a university benefactor and professor. Lurid headlines claim he took his own life, but where lawyers are involved matters of truth and justice are never going to be so simple.

Stepping in to help the investigation – when not doling out tough love bordering on verbal abuse to the students – is another former prosecutor, the intimidating Yang Jong-hoon (Kim Myung-min). Which is where the case turns genuinely sensational, with Yang being arrested for the murder and hauled away before his incredulous pupils, just as a ravenous press pack descends.

And that’s just the set-up to an intriguing whodunit stretching the length of the series. Also brought into the reckoning are some of the star students, their eight-strong core group coming with enough tangled backstories, grudges and ulterior motives to suggest guilt beyond reasonable doubt.

Leading the rookie, often cocky gang are Han Joon-hwi (Kim Sang-bum), a smug swot who considers himself a heartthrob; Kang Sol A (Ryu Hye-young), who feels out of place because she isn’t from the regulation wealthy background but might be the smartest of the lot; and the frosty, well-dressed and moneyed Kang Sol B (Lee Soo-kyung), who seems to disdain everyone who isn’t, well, her.