Lydia Dagostino, the students' solicitor, told The Independent that 'all defendants pleaded not guilty to the charges and will be fighting together to clear their names'.
Our councillors range in age from 21 to around 65 and come from a variety of professional backgrounds, from solicitor to student.
I want to thank all those who helped me – the students and staff at Cardiff, my solicitor David McCorkle, James Wood QC and Tunde Okewale from Doughty Street Chambers".
"I ended up enjoying things that I never thought I would, and I certainly never expected to qualify as a corporate solicitor when I was a student," she says.
The case was prepared by second-year law student Claire Splawn under the supervision of clinic solicitor Sheona York.
Even in a tough legal job market, the surly placement student remains surprisingly common, say insiders, riling solicitors and barristers with a lack of passion for life.
While more women than men now study law at university and become solicitors, and students from black and minority ethnic backgrounds made up 32% of those studying for law degrees in the UK in 2012-13, senior lawyers are a much less diverse group.
A handful of abstruse law review articles; memos as a White House aide (to be excavated from the Clinton library); welcomes to new students as dean of Harvard Law School; briefs for the government as solicitor general.
After serving as solicitor general, Mr. Cox returned to Harvard in 1966, just as student unrest was beginning there and on campuses around the nation.
However, before you present us with the obvious fact of the week award, it's not the case that every law student will go on to don a barrister's wig, or become a solicitor.
