Focussing on the importance of ‘Trust’, Marcelle-Shaw uses the lenses of regulation, consumer expectations, conduct and competence and ethics to outline the ways in which professions should act reliably and ably in our best interests.

In Lean Construction, principles like “flow,” “pull,” “remove waste” are used with ease. However, have they been correctly treated and understood? We call for reflection upon the power of principles to strengthen the theoretical conceptualisation of Lean as well as upon their power to support improvement in practice.

This paper has been prepared to identify issues and promote discussion about Continuing Professional Development (CPD) in the Victorian legal profession.

The pervasive impact of regulation on society, coupled with regulatory failures often attributed to the performance of regulators, calls for the professionalisation of regulation as a practice, vocation, and discipline. To this end, governments and non-governmental organisations around the world have begun to explore pathways to build out the regulatory profession.

While competition regulators are wary of the potential for some occupational and professional licensing schemes to erect excessive barriers against entry, Australia has a lengthy history of regulation in this area as a critical means to protect consumers.