The phrase "inadequate legislation" is correct and can be used in written English.
It is typically used to describe laws or regulations that are insufficient or flawed in some way. Example: The lack of comprehensive gun control measures is a prime example of inadequate legislation in the United States.
Poverty and inadequate legislation are frequently pointed to, but some experts believe the problem is a cultural one.
The problem in both Canada and Brazil is not just a question of lax enforcement, but of woefully inadequate legislation.
The Demos/UKDPC report Taking Drugs Seriously published today, for which I was a contributor, sets out clearly how legal highs have exposed the ancient Misuse of Drugs Act 1971 (MDA) as totally inadequate legislation.
The case, which attracted massive media attention, is perhaps Sweden's best-known incidence of online abuse and harassment – and a rare example of successful prosecution by police and judicial authorities battling, campaigners say, inadequate legislation and technology they do not fully understand.
The paper has faced up very publicly to the unreasonable attitudes and behaviour of the police, security agencies and political parties which demonstrate a problem not so much of inadequate legislation (though that is an issue) as of an increasingly illiberal culture.
Marina Pisklakova, head of ANNA, a Moscow-based charity which has been fighting for improved support for victims of domestic violence since the 1990s, points out that the violence itself is a global problem, but that Russia is unusual in having such inadequate legislation.
The developing world is masked with challenges of coping with failing infrastructures, inadequate finance, poor legislation, lack of appropriate institutional capacity for regulation and control and often the political will to enforce control measures.
"The reasons are diverse, but include lack of political will, inadequate enabling legislation, lack of understanding of the resolutions and low prioritisation," it said, referring to the incomplete enforcement of sanctions.
He has also sent out important signals to the business community, such as his intention to strengthen the country's woefully inadequate anti-monopoly legislation.
Mr Taibbi was born with his hair that way; Mr Klein's hair is usually neatly combed, but has finally ignited in despair at the spectacle of inadequate health-care legislation emerging, or not, from the 111th Congress.
Speaking at a debate in the House of Lords in March, Lord Stevens said anti-corruption legislation was inadequate.
