The series follows the work of Professor Jon Ford (Lloyd Owen), who sets up The Innocence Project, peopled entirely by a hand-picked group of law students.
They take on cases pro bono that no one else will handle, or those that have been forgotten or given up on, working for clients that would otherwise have no hope, and who have possibly been wrongly convicted.
The series is based on a British version of the Innocence Project, a non-profit legal clinic in the United States.
[3] The Innocence Project fared particularly poorly for a BBC primetime drama, and received a number of negative reviews.
In an unusual move for the BBC, the series was pulled from the schedules mid-run, and the final three episodes were not broadcast until over a month later.