The phrase 'inadequate rules' is correct and usable in written English.
You could use it to describe regulations or laws that are too strict or too lenient and not suitable for the situation. For example, "The inadequate rules of the school did not allow for any leeway in disciplinary matters."
At this point, gridlock would be preferable to passing weak or inadequate rules.
A year and a half after the country's banking system nearly imploded, it is still operating under the same inadequate rules and regulations.
These were then ruined by, among other things, weak supervision, inadequate rules governing accounting and bankruptcy, dire economic management and a heavy dose of reckless lending.
But JPMorgan seems to have violated pre-Dodd-Frank laws by failing to properly disclose the London Whale trades, and the government's failure to detect them resulted more from institutional shortcomings than from inadequate rules.
There were also allegations that cotton irrigators were pumping environmental water released from further upstream because of inadequate rules to protect the flows as they moved down the river.
The MPs' expenses scandal confirmed the growing suspicions of the public in two ways: first, that many of those who were supposed to be protecting and serving the public interest and saving us money, were instead fleecing the public purse – whether they were acting within the obviously inadequate rules, bending the rules, or possibly breaking the law.
Ultimately, the EU must be prepared – as it has threatened with Poland and Hungary but not done – to trigger the Article 7 processes that can see member countries warned over inadequate rule of law, and ultimately be suspended from membership, or see their voting rights curtailed.
The campaign didn't address the overarching institutional reasons for corruption: the presence of the state throughout the economy and inadequate rule of law.
A pending rule proposal to allow mass marketing of hedge funds and other private offerings will provide an early and important test, since on the surface at least it offers a choice between standing by her commitment to investor protection and risking a stalemate or acting promptly to approve a dangerously inadequate rule.
In many LMICs, political instability and inadequate rule of law contribute to corruption and lack of accountability in the efficient and timely allocation of health resources to support maternal and neonatal health [ 66].
Post hoc analysis 1 of the data from the Australian Quality and Health Care Study (AQHCS) 2 found that 'that misapplication of, or failure to apply a rule; or use of a bad or inadequate rule' and 'violation of a protocol or rule' together occurred in 13.6% of the adverse events identified in the AQHCS.
