About
At Lincoln Regulatory Consulting, we help regulators, boards, and compliance teams address some of their most pressing challenges.
We support enforcement consistency by designing clear, risk-based compliance models that promote fair and transparent decision-making.
Our work on risk exposure mitigation strengthens internal controls and ensures compliance efforts align with broader organisational risk frameworks. We provide deep regulatory navigation expertise, offering technical analysis to interpret complex reforms and legislative obligations.
Through tailored capability enhancement, we close skills gaps in compliance and enforcement teams with targeted training. And at the governance level, we support oversight and assurance, helping boards and executives meet their due diligence obligations across increasingly complex safety and regulatory environments.
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Meet the Team
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Ray Hassall
Managing Director
Ray is an experienced regulatory advisor with a strong background in compliance, enforcement, governance, and legal policy. He brings over two decades of executive-level experience working across complex regulatory environments in transport, infrastructure, safety, and public administration.
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Ben Baker
Associate
Ben is a regulatory policy and compliance specialist with over 14 years of experience spanning transport law, land use regulation, and national reform initiatives. He brings particular expertise in legislative interpretation, regulatory system mapping, and policy development in safety-critical and technically complex environments.
Engagements and Reports
The LRC Working Papers: Audio Series
Lincoln Regulatory Consulting produces working papers on regulatory design, compliance and enforcement, and public-sector governance. This series turns those papers into short, conversational audio — an accessible way into the ideas before, or instead of, reading the full document. Each discussion walks through the questions a paper raises, the reasoning behind it, and what it means in practice. The audio is generated with an AI tool from our own source papers.
Our Products
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Structured Document Diagnostics
This diagnostic tool supports public sector clients in evaluating the design and performance of regulatory bodies. It applies a structured framework to review evidence, test alignment with good regulatory practice, and identify strengths and improvement areas. The output is a clear, impartial assessment suitable for audit, oversight, or reform planning. It is particularly useful for commissions, audit offices, or policy units seeking objective insights grounded in administrative law and regulatory theory
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Compliance and Enforcement Framework Evaluation
This product provides a detailed, criteria-based review of regulatory compliance and enforcement frameworks. Whether used for comparative analysis across sectors or deep review of a single framework, it enables a granular understanding of how effectively obligations, tools, and powers are structured and applied. The method supports transparent evaluation of legal coherence, operational clarity, proportionality, and role accountability — with outputs tailored for legal, policy, and governance audiences.
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Regulator Performance Assessment
This diagnostic tool supports public sector clients in evaluating the design and performance of regulatory bodies. It applies a structured framework to review evidence, test alignment with good regulatory practice, and identify strengths and improvement areas. The output is a clear, impartial assessment suitable for audit, oversight, or reform planning. It is particularly useful for commissions, audit offices, or policy units seeking objective insights grounded in administrative law and regulatory theory.
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Screening & Readiness Tools
We also offer obligation evaluation tools that help organisations identify gaps or weaknesses in their current compliance documents or regulatory frameworks. These assessments provide a clear view of whether key roles, duties, and controls are properly defined and implemented. In many cases, they highlight structural or content-level issues that justify the use of more advanced diagnostic tools or external advisory support—but the results stand on their own and are designed to inform internal decision-making
