23rd July - Law News

Edition 4226: LawNewsIndex is a UK based daily legal news archive on Law, Lawyers, Law Firms, Justice, Jurisprudence, Legislation, Litigation, Legal Ethics & Human Rights since 2011.

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Today's Highlighted Video Story: Each year, thousands of migrants - cross the jungle between Colombia and Panama. They travel 100 kilometers on foot through a rainforest known as the Darien Gap. It's an active route for undocumented migrants, trying to get to the US. But now, wealthy tourists are landing in the same jungle - for adventure holidays.

A selection of important developments in the world of law and justice (for a comprehensive look at the news and events, please visit @theLawMap Twitter feed):

Saturday Conversations on Law

• Manhunt is underway in #Mexico after a man set fire to a bar following being kicked out, killing 11, officials say. The attack happened on Friday night in San Luis Rio Colorado, which borders the US. The bar sits just one street away from the border https://tinyurl.com/mmrym6yr
  
• Merthyr Tydfil: Ffos-y-Fran mine accused of licence breach https://tinyurl.com/543ev73s
• The Immigration Law Practitioners’ Association (ILPA) has joined a coalition of 290 lawyers, justice, immigration, housing, legal advice and rights groups to collectively condemn the passing of the Illegal Migration Act 202 | NLJ https://t.co/LxiqRE85bQ
• Around the house: Taylor Swift calls on Venable for new GC; Mastercard taps US chipmaker for CLO - The Global Legal Post https://shorturl.at/kry67
  
• For private client practitioners in the developing digital asset world, managing digital assets is a complex area that requires careful consideration and sensitivity | NLJ https://tinyurl.com/226twrr4
• The family of a teenager put in a coma after developing pneumonia while on holiday in Spain have booked a £33,000 medical flight to bring her home. Bryony Duthie, who suffers from a rare chronic kidney condition, fell ill on 16 July on the Costa Del Sol https://t.co/AbBCIZbbDv
• Kidnapped 13-year-old girl rescued in California after holding up ‘help me’ sign - Police charge 61-year-old man after freeing girl who had been snatched days earlier in Texas from parked car in Long Beach https://shorturl.at/bcuNP
  
• Tom Jones questions Delilah rugby choir ban during Cardiff concert - The 1968 hit has been controversial because of its references to a woman's murder by her jealous partner https://tinyurl.com/3vbaeh96