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Effortless legal compliance is possible

Uncomplicating the legal compliance process is not just our job, it’s our passion.

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Management standards made simple

Systematised and supported conformance to the requirements of international management standards with automated integration of operational risk and legal obligations.

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Enabling ESG

Environmental, social and corporate governance (“ESG”) obligations known and met, for private equity firms, asset managers and directors of companies.

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How does it work?

Technology, systems, legal and scientific knowledge
married with established technique creates the ultimate platform.

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  • Effortless Legal Compliance

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Designed to work optimally across devices, the platform includes access to the latest data, our extensive template library and plain English summaries, all easily searchable, and all delivered via an easy-to-use system.

Our platform

Designed to work optimally across devices, the platform includes access to the latest data, our extensive template library and plain English summaries, all easily searchable, and all delivered via an easy-to-use system.

Standards & Legal’s governance platform takes the stress out of managing your sustainability and legal compliance. Going far beyond simply ‘ticking boxes’ to pass audits, our platform is genuinely useful and refreshingly easy-to-use, whilst our knowledgeable team is always on hand to offer personal attention and systems coaching.

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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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