The phrase "a patchwork of legal" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a situation where various laws or regulations are combined in a disjointed or inconsistent manner.
Example: "The new policy is essentially a patchwork of legal requirements that vary significantly from one jurisdiction to another."
Alternatives: "a mosaic of legal" or "a jumble of legal".
Highly visible violations of privacy have tended to generate specific -- and, often, narrow -- legal responses, leading to a patchwork of legal remedies.
In fact, the issues of what is permissible by employers have produced a patchwork of legal rulings and the matter has never been addressed directly by the Supreme Court.
Our court case was made up from a patchwork of legal precedents, and accepting Lord Justice Richards' verdict would allow the police to add our experiences to their arsenal.
Administration officials complain that attempts to provide such security assistance, especially in crisis situations, have often been hampered by a patchwork of legal restrictions and by a division of responsibilities among U.S. government departments.
Dollar danger Try the Khmers Rouges Iran comes clean Reprints Related items Direct hitJan 7th 1999In America, data protection has largely been left to individual states, which have a patchwork of legal provision, and to the courts, where citizens often have to go when they feel their privacy has been violated.
"The European market remains much more fragmented than the American one: entrepreneurs [in Europe] have to grapple with a patchwork of legal codes and an expensive and time-consuming patent system," explain the editors of The Economist.
An open question under the USA Freedom Act is whether energetic lawyers for the intelligence agencies will accept the loss of the bulk collection program or seek to cobble together a retention through a patchwork of different legal authorities.
The second strand focuses on the implementation of the investigation, such as interviewing employees, securing documents, and complying with a patchwork of local and international laws, privacy laws, and legal privileges.
On a given day, roughly 34,000 immigrants are held in a patchwork of local jails and prisons, awaiting court hearings that determine whether they have the legal right to remain in the United States or will be deported.
And it shows how agencies beyond the N.S.A. use metadata — logs of the date, duration and phone numbers involved in a call, but not the content — to analyze links between people through programs regulated by an inconsistent patchwork of legal standards, procedures and oversight.
When it comes to what is called contract law in the European Union, the single market is actually a patchwork of 27 national legal codes offering varying degrees of protection to consumers and merchants.
