Government departments that regulate environmental management for mining have a range of choices about the timing and quality of rehabilitation. Economic theory suggests that the cost incurred by firms should relate to the social cost of the environmental damage, however, there has been little...

This article attempts to set out the broad approach which the Central Arbitration Committee (CAC) takes in statutory recognition, and also to describe, in a little more detail, the way in which we tackle each stage of the statutory process. While we now have sufficient of a track record to...