Nevertheless it does seem to be a pity that the producers have provided no guidance to teachers on how they envisaged that their product could be used as teaching aids. Teachers are left to devise their teaching strategies from scratch and alone. This means that the only obvious advantage of this particular series is that it provides the live faces of various participants where teachers may traditionally have relied on written reconstructions of the stories of the participants. This kind of criticism could be extended to the content of the tapes themselves. Given the breadth of interest of the prospective audience, it would have been useful if the tapes had included perhaps only at the end as a kind of addendum some basic background information about the disciplines that are involved in dealing with the problems that these cases raise.
Lawyers have no or very little psychology or sociology.
Students of psychology and sociology have a similarly limited perspective on law. When each is asked to consider the resolution of these problems it would seem appropriate that they should have some notion of the contribution of the others. Again it seems teachers will bear the responsibility of bringing students to the point of having that basic breadth of knowledge. Of course, this is probably what teachers are currently doing. To that extent they will be useful, but only where the particular teacher has prepared a comprehensive exercise that includes them.