Public policy sets out what government aims to achieve and how it proposes to achieve it, while law reform involves changing or developing legislation to give effect to those objectives. Governments need to understand changes in technology, digital markets, social expectations, and new ways of doing business to achieve their national, economic, and social objectives.

Law reform is the responsibility of parliament, government, non profit organisations, activists, businesses and the general public.

We can deliver

We help governments develop and improve policies to achieve national outcomes and build agile laws that support rapid societal change. We understand how policy is developed, how laws work in practice and how technological and societal change affects both. Our team members have served on the South African Law Reform Commission (SALRC), helped draft technology-related laws, and briefed Parliament on technology and information law-related topics on many occasions.

Our approach to public policy and law reform

We want to help you to move from understanding the problem to developing a solution that works in practice.

Public policy development and law reform

How we enable you

Make informed policy and law reform decisions about complex legal, technological, and policy issues by attending interactive workshops, briefings, and training.

Empower your organisation with legal know-how by joining our programme . Guide your in-house legal or data management team to understand the implications, stay up to date with changes in the law and produce various documents. 

Make policy development and law reform more efficient and effective by identifying and implementing appropriate technology to support the process. $ 

You may need the bespoke legal services of our expert team. 

  1. Have clear, practical public policy that can achieve its intended outcomes by using plain language to translate policy objectives into actionable policy statements. $ 
  2. Create laws that support your objectives and respond to changes in society and technology by identifying gaps and barriers in existing legal frameworks and developing practical options for reform. $ 

Our experience

Some of our experience:

  1. We monitor and report on all cases involving the interpretation of statutes and contracts. We can provide you with an index of all relevant cases and a summary of them. We have substantial experience in interpretative theory.
  2. We have participated in many parliamentary legislative processes.
  3. We were one of the drafters of the ECT Act, PAIA and POPIA and the IT Governance chapter of King III™ code. We have drafted codes for associations and industry bodies, legislation for City Councils, and the Rules for the former Industrial Court.
  4. DMASA and CBA CoC.
  5. LPC rules.
  6. Cybercrimes Act.
  7. SA National AI Policy
  8. Lexing Network experience.
  9. SALRC
  10. World Bank.

Our latest insights on public policy development and law reform

Public policy and law reform are complex and constantly evolving. Explore our latest thinking, practical guidance and analysis on policy development, legislative reform, technology and emerging issues.

Attend our public policy development and law reform events

Learn from our lawyers and other experts through our webinars, workshops, courses and training programmes.

Webinar | Recognising AI and robots as artificial persons

15 October @ 10:00 am - 11:00 am

Let’s talk so that we can help you determine what you need to do first. We look foward to working with you.