Overview
The
LegalB website has been developed as an electronic legal tool with for
legal professionals seeking to analyse and audit legislation and
administrative action of concern to their clients against basic
principles of the Rule of Law.
The use value of the LegalB database to legal professionals and indeed to others can be broken down as follows
A. Index of Gazettes and their items, annotated with audit results against basic principles of the Rule of Law
B.
Library of South African Legislation, annotated with audit results against basic principles of the Rule of Law
C.
Index of potential transgressors and potential transgressions for numerous Acts
D.
STAQ-based Compliance and Transgression Testing tools
E.
Consultancy services relating to the Rule of Law
| A. Index of Gazettes and item audits |
Description
The LegalB database includes an index of Gazettes and
classification of their items under parent legislation, and the
results of item audits against basic principles of the Rule of Law
| B. Library of South African Legislation |
Description
The
LegalB website houses a collection of South African National and
Provincial legislation, audited against requirements of basic
principles of the Rule of Law.
The LegalB database consists of the following for each Act:
Overview of the Act
Table of contents
List of versions
Links to the text of each version
List of subordinate texts issued under the Act
Timeline of events for the Act
Commentary on the results of a Rule of Law audit of the Act
| C. Analysis of potential transgressions and potential transgressors for each Act |
Description
The database contains, for each section of various of the Act it
houses, a list of potential transgressions, a list of elements of
transgressions, and list of potential transgressors, useful for the
following:
- Creating legal compliance registers
- Maintaining legal compliance registers
- Auditing compliance with specific pieces of legislation
| D. STAQ-based Compliance and Transgression Testing |
Description
We provide developed a unique system of standardized, online, interactive STAQ transgression questionnaires,
which substantially reduce reliance on costly in-house or
outside expertise in developing and maintaining your compliance
programme. STAQs consist of a carefully structured list of factual questions, developed through a process of content analysis, which assists you to determine whether factual transgressions of
legislation have occurred. They do
not require any particular expertise to administer other than
skills which are typically found in virtually every organisation, and
the process of administering STAQs does not have to involve costly
expertise or the time of those in your organisation who call ill afford
it. STAQ Transgression
Reports, generated on completion of a STAQ, specify whether any
factual transgression have been found and identify the exact set of
particular
facts which should be considered a factual transgression.
STAQs can used to evaluate the compliance of multiple
potential transgressors simultaneously, and can be
used as the basis upon which to develop a compliance programme, or can
be easily integrated into an existing compliance programme. If you would like to try out a free STAQ , please email.
| E. Consultancy on Rule of Law |
Description
The
LegalB database is a basic tool to audit whether legislation and
administrative actions taken in terms of administration has been in
compliance with basic principles of the Rule of Law.
It is structured to easily identify whether the Act was properly
published, commenced, amended or repealed, whether appointments and
authorities have been appointed, whether public participation
requirements have been met, it has been applied, equally, and so.
Please call or email
if you are interested in Rule of Law Consultancy services or if you
wish to make use of the LegalB database in offering such services
yourself
