Legally mandated oversight bodies should be integral to post-apartheid consultative and cooperative governance.
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The lives of South Africa’s most vulnerable remain in danger for as long as its mental health oversight bodies remain dysfunctional and disregarded.
Self-regulation of advertisements in South Africa is facing a rethink.
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The current system for regulating advertising in South Africa is dependent on the buy-in of the advertiser. But this may be about to change.
Blind to the problems?
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Access to justice is still deeply unequal when it comes to low level disputes over bad service or faulty goods.
Customers have the most to gain out of a review of the powers of the Financial Services Ombudsman, which sits under ASIC.
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Out of the many changes the federal government has made to ASIC, the review of the Financial Ombudsman will have the biggest impact on customers.
The efficacy of our political conventions relies on a healthy respect in society for their role in regulating our governments.
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Laws play their role in regulating our governments, but so does our own respect for political conventions. And the way these are upheld goes to the heart of our freedom as democratic people.
Corporate infiltration of expert advice is a battleground on both sides of the Atlantic.
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On both sides of the Atlantic it would appear that evidence-based policy is in jeopardy. The scientific advice that government and regulators rely upon to inform their decision-making is under attack…