Totally agree with WWW in this case, the poor instructor in question was blamed for the total negligence of the student and is in my view totally free of blame. As soon as the wheels leave the ground it is out of your hands. The non aviation jury were misled by the fact that the student disobeyed his instructors explicit instructions and entered cloud and lost control, this was not the first time he had disobeyed instructions and his training records recorded that he completed an unauthorised landing at another airfield while on a solo cross-country during earlier training, this also was done without permission and I think reflects the mind set of the student. This whole court case thing is extremely worrying and is a very dangerous precedent for others to follow.There for the grace of god go I.