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Legislation, governance instruments, contracts, written legal opinions, board and council support, and compliance - done properly.

We draft subordinate legislation (regulations, rules, codes), governance instruments (delegations of authority, policies, terms of reference), and contracts; write legal opinions; and initiate, lead, or chair formal inquiries for boards and councils across statutory bodies, public entities, companies (public and private), non-profit organisations, and growing enterprises. You receive a clear written scope before any work starts. Fixed fees for work that can be scoped. Hourly only where it genuinely cannot be.

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ProofEngaged by a statutory councilAppointed in June 2026 as independent legal, governance and compliance advisers to a national statutory council. Two workstreams delivered in July, on time and within a fixed fee; a written corporate reference from the Registrar in August.

PerspectiveThree sides of the same tablePrivate practice, in-house counsel and national statutory regulation, in one adviser. The advice accounts for how a decision will be minuted, reported and defended, not only whether it is lawful. About the practice

PriceThe fee, before the work startsFixed fees for work that can be scoped, published on this site. Hourly only where it genuinely cannot be. No retainers, no deposits, no trust account, no VAT. Invoiced once delivered. See the fee menu

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What we do

Legal, governance, and compliance work - done right.

From drafting an instrument to the governance that follows - we support statutory councils, public entities, companies (public and private), non-profit organisations, and growing enterprises.

Legislative & regulatory drafting

The specialism the practice was built on: rules, codes, regulations and the mandate, consultation and gazetting process that makes them valid.

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Legal opinions

Formal written opinions a board, council or executive can rely on and file, and the empowering-provision analysis that has to come before anything is drafted.

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Policy drafting

38 policy instruments across governance, ethics, finance, information, people and operations: what each does, how it is drafted, and the defect that most often makes it unenforceable.

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Contract drafting

27 instruments, the statute behind each one, and the defect that most often makes it unenforceable. Written so that you can judge the knowledge before you buy it.

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Governance & board advisory

Delegations, charters, terms of reference, King V transition and board evaluation, as a fixed-fee project with a defined end, not an open retainer.

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Regulatory & compliance strategy

Which statutes and regulators actually apply, who owns each obligation, and what evidence proves it was met, written so a board, a funder or an inspector can follow it.

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POPIA, PAIA compliance

Readiness programmes, enforcement-notice remediation, operator registers, breach procedures and section 51 manuals, built so that a compliance claim is provable rather than asserted.

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Workplace & conduct

Independent chairing, professional-conduct inquiries, CCMA strategy and employment instruments, all built around the document a commissioner will read afterwards.

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Company secretarial practice

Registers current, meetings papered, filings made on time, and someone to tell the board when something is about to go wrong, without a full-time appointment.

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Who we work with

Start with your organisation.

Six kinds of client come to us. Each list leads to the services they ask for most. Every engagement starts with a free 30-minute scoping call and a written scope.

Statutory bodies

Councils, regulators and professional boards

Bodies created by an Act to register or regulate a profession or a sector. Every rule, delegation and decision has to trace back to the empowering provision.

Read first When a regulatory framework needs review

Growing enterprises

Start-ups, funded and founder-led businesses

For the moment a raise, a large customer or a first board makes the paperwork matter.

Read first Delegations of authority: who may actually sign, and how to prove it

Consultants and independent contractors

Independent contractors, sole practitioners and consultancies

Firms and individuals who sell their expertise. The usual questions are what you may lawfully offer, what your client contracts should say, and which policies a client may ask to see.

Read first Legal opinions: six questions to ask before you rely on one

Companies

Public and private companies, including lenders and finance houses

Boards and executive committees that need their authority, their instruments and their compliance in writing. For lenders and finance houses, the FIC Act adds a compliance programme of its own.

Lenders and finance houses

Read first The Exco runs the business. Who gave it the authority?

Non-profit organisations

Non-profit companies, trusts and voluntary associations

Usually when a funder or a bank asks for the documents in writing, or when the board wants to know where it stands.

Registered non-profit organisations are charged reduced fees. See the fee menu

Read first The governance self-check: ten questions, two minutes

Public entities and municipalities

SETAs and other public entities, state-owned companies, municipalities and municipal entities

Institutions that answer to the PFMA or the MFMA, where a delegation, a policy or a process has to satisfy the Auditor-General and survive review.

Read first After 4 November, every new council must review its delegations

Not sure?

Tell us where you fit.

Tell us in a line or two what your organisation needs to decide or draft, and we will point you to the right service. The first conversation is thirty minutes, confidential and free.

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Not only technically correct, but calibrated to how boards decide, and how regulators respond.

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Tell us the decision your organisation needs to make.

The first conversation is thirty minutes, confidential and free. You will leave it knowing which of our services you need and which you do not.

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