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Stress-free compliance management

Know, manage and comply

  • Effortless Legal Compliance

To create good governance and sustainability on a global scale, businesses first need to know, manage and comply with their legal obligations. At Standards and Legal we take the headache out of your compliance and help to foster a more sustainable future.

For sustainable compliance we provide

  • legal compliance audits
  • internal ISO management system audits
  • risk assessments
  • custom training as well as
  • legal registers and regulatory tracking

The New ISO Standards Require you to:


LEGAL REGISTERS

LEGAL AUDITS

We live (and work) by three guiding principles…


Quality in detail

Since 1991, Standards & Legal has been building a reputation for quality workmanship - delivering clear, accurate and well written content for its clients. Excellence, attention-to-detail and consistency are not simply words to us, they are traits evident in our daily work.


Endless innovation

It is always possible to discover a better way of doing something. With this in mind, we actively look at the technologies and systems that are used and consider better ways of achieving business goals and objectives. Once we discover a better way, we incorporate it into our product and service offering.


Integrated thinking

Our diverse team of experts ensures a broad range of perspectives and experience is drawn upon before we reach the best conclusions for our clients. All our work is peer-reviewed to guarantee accuracy and consistency.

Our team

With nearly 25 years of experience in applying management standards and legal compliance to your industry and its specific operations and activities, our engagement process is facilitated by a team of top lawyers, scientists, technologists and systems specialists.

Peter Flynn

Managing Director (Technology & Systems)

Peter is experienced in and passionate about creating web-based systems, using technology, to add bottom-line benefit to organisations. Peter heads up Standards & Legal and his focus is on building our systems and business.

Garth Watson

Director, Senior Legal Counsel (Law & Science)

A passionate and principled attorney, Garth has over a decade of experience in the Dispute Resolution, Corporate and Commercial and (the rapidly developing) Environmental, Social and Corporate Governance (ESG) Legal domains. Garth is based in Oxford in the United Kingdom.

Lynn Schouw

Senior Associate (Systems & Law)

Having worked as a Safety, Health and Environment Officer and then consulting, in a career spanning over twenty years, Lynn’s ongoing passion for occupational health and safety, as well as environmental management, has resulted in her achieving an impressive range of auditing and legal qualifications and obtaining vast on-the-job experience.

Emily Twycross

Senior Associate
 (Science & Law)


With an MSc in Ecological Assessment, Emily is passionate about sustainability. Having worked in various environmental consulting positions in South Africa and England, she possesses both local and international experience. Emily also has a unique penchant for interpreting environmental, social and corporate governance (ESG) legal requirements.

Henrietta Tweedy

Associate, Environmental Attorney (Law)


A qualified attorney, with an LLM (Environmental Law), Henrietta began her career at the African Centre for Water Research and subsequently the Department of Mineral Resources. Since joining our team Henrietta has obtained substantial environmental and occupational health and safety legal compliance auditing experience for large and listed companies operating in South Africa.

Nicky Yon

Personal Assistant and Office Manager

Nicky is adept at problem solving, customer relations and seamlessly running the administrative end of our business. Nicky has an Occupational Health & Safety Management Diploma and a Marketing Management Diploma.

Your assistance in our attainment of ISO 14001 certification for our environmental management system was first class. Throughout the preparation process, the staff were extremely helpful, informative and attentive. In particular, their response to a very tight deadline was impressive to say the least.

Alvin Oliver

QMS Engineer - Faurecia Emissions Control Technologies (Cape Town) (Pty) Ltd

Recently I had the pleasure of dealing with your company, in preparation for an ISO 14001 EMS accreditation. One of the critical requirements for this accreditation is the Legal Registers.

Vasen Pillay

SHERQ Manager - Nampak Liquid Cartons

Standards & Legal performed their project diligently and in a cost-effective and timely manner to the satisfaction of our mutual client. We’re grateful for the professional manner in which they handle their business.

Bryan Keague

General Manager - NOSA Mining

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