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The Hoo building in Hampstead. - Credit: Harry Taylor Plans for three "luxury" family homes in the Royal Frees old mental health building in Lyndhurst Gardens were approved on Thursday.  Planning committee chair Cllr Heather Johnson used her casting vote to approve the scheme after the committee was deadlocked at four votes in favour, four against, and two abstentions.  Developer Jaga Developments is to convert the listed building - formerly known as The Hoo - into two five-bedroom homes and ...

Return to Work: Employer-Mandated COVID Vaccination Policies and Accommodating Employee Disabilities and Religious Beliefs, April 23, 2021, Matthew Kreiser With over 50% of the adult population in the United States having received at least one dose of a vaccine to combat the novel coronavirus (COVID), many businesses and employers are looking forward to a “return to normal” and their employees coming back to the workplace. One common consideration is whether an employer should implement man...

administration for amending a motion tackling bullying and intimidation. At a full council meeting on April 27, Independent councillor Madhuri Bedi (Foxborough) put forward a motion for the council to take a ‘zero-tolerance’ approach within the organisation and to review the councillor code of conduct to investigate such claims in a ‘timely manner’. She also urged the council to acknowledge ‘women in politics have been disproportionately impacted by social media abuse in recent ye...

Our second half of results will be revealed next week. PEOPLE K9 Alex — OUPD For another year, K9 Alex reigns supreme in terms of area law enforcement officer popularity. To be fair, most categories in our “People” section that find an animal as a nominee also find an animal as the top finalist. In K9 Alex’s case, it’s really hard to compete with those soulful, brown eyes. Also garnering honors were Jimmy Childs, of the Athens County Sheriff’s Office, and Ath...

To embed, copy and paste the code into your website or blog: 2020 was a year of upheaval for the cybersecurity and data privacy space. COVID-19 raised new challenges, unprecedented cyberattacks highlighted vulnerabilities in both the private and public sectors, and sweeping new privacy laws were enacted. The full ramifications of these changes and challenges have yet to play out, and the Biden Administration is gearing up to make changes that stand to impact almost every person and company in t...

Police: 18-year-old shot while driving on Arkansas highway (Source: Philippe, Joyce) By WMC Action News 5 Staff | April 6, 2021 at 12:12 PM CDT - Updated April 6 at 4:04 PM TRUMANN, Ark.(WMC) - Arkansas police are investigating a shooting involving a teenaged girl. Anna Wright, 18, was shot early Monday morning on April 5, while driving on Highway 69 near Heroes Lane, according to Trumann Police. Officers responded to reports of a vehicle crash but were unaware of the shooting. Wright wa...

PilieroMazza Reacts to the Rise in Violence Against the Asian-American Community, March 29, 2021 In the past year, 3,800 acts of violence were perpetrated against the Asian-American community, with a disproportionate number of these attacks directed at women specifically. The PilieroMazza family joins others in raising our voices to condemn these acts of violence, which diminish us as a nation and violate every human being’s basic right to live with dignity and respect. Read more here. Pilier...

DOJ Announces FY 2020 Fraud and FCA Recovery Statistics: What They Mean for 2021, January 20, 2021, Matt Feinberg and Camilla Hundley The Department of Justice (DOJ) announced that it recovered more than $2.2 billion in settlements and judgments from civil cases involving fraud and the False Claims Act (FCA) in Fiscal Year (FY) 2020 (ending September 30, 2020). DOJ’s FY 2020 fraud and FCA recovery statistics report accompanied the announcement. With a global pandemic that often delayed proc...

Purchase Agreement Components, Part 2: Indemnification Provisions, January 8, 2021, Frank Massaro In an acquisition, particularly an equity acquisition, a buyer must perform extensive due diligence on the target company to understand, as thoroughly as possible, the risks associated with the acquisition. In most cases, however, the buyer cannot fully evaluate or even identify all sources of risk that it will assume post-closing. To address these uncertainties and allocate these potential risks, ...

Santa delivering the goods - Credit: Brookfield Estate TRA With a "ho ho ho" Santa left his grotto to deliver gifts to children in Highgate Newtown as London went into a tier 4 lockdown. Carrying a big sack of presents, Father Christmas made his rounds on Sunday (December 20). The Brookfield Estate Tenants & Residents Association applied for funding for the visit, and for a tree following a “dreary year” marred by the Covid pandemic  The idea was to ensure that all children up to the age ...