Associations of workers, consumers and residents must have legal standing as a remedy to regulatory capture and lackadaisical administration of laws designed to protect them from the powerful. This fundamental principle cannot be abrogated because of the alleged importance of some particular government interest. To the contrary the pressure that will come on the government to “do whatever it takes” to get have a successful games makes the risk of bad decisions and hence the need for a check on government even greater;
Read MoreThe current project by the Commission ‘ticks all the boxes’ in relation to the primary principles guiding Law Reform Commissions namely independence, transparency, accessibility and coherence.
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