principal barrister
Me Mokshda Pertaub, barrister in Mauritius.
Principal Barrister and Head of Chambers, Me Mokshda Pertaub was sworn in at the Bar of Mauritius on 29 January 1998.
She holds an LLB from the London School of Economics, an LLM from France, a postgraduate diploma from India and the Bar at Law in Mauritius.
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biography
Experience across advocacy, the bench and legal education — held to one ethical standard.
Her practice covers family law and divorce, high-value and sensitive matters, property and estates, employment, civil and commercial work, and gender advisory. She has also served on the bench at the District Courts of Flacq and Port-Louis in the early 2000s.
Appointed Director of the Institute for Judicial and Legal Studies in January 2017, she has trained members of the judiciary and contributed to judicial and legal education in Mauritius and abroad.
credentials
A professional life in sequence.
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1998 Bar of Mauritius Sworn in on 29 January 1998, following an LLB (LSE, UK), LLM (France), PGD (India) and Bar at Law (Mauritius).
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2000s District Courts Served on the bench at the District Courts of Flacq and Port-Louis in the early 2000s.
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2017 Institute for Judicial and Legal Studies Appointed Director of the Institute for Judicial and Legal Studies, Mauritius, in January 2017.
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2021–22 Judicial training across Africa Examined a Maputo Protocol judicial training manual and trained African judges.
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2022 International consultancy Consultancies and training for UNODC, UN Women, IISD and IOM, including work in Mali, Niger and Senegal.
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2023 Gender equality and legal education Jury member for the Africa Gender Equality Moot Court Competition in Kenya; presentations at Brandeis University and UNDP Mauritius; judicial trainer on the Right to Water in Barcelona.
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2024 Gender and family-law advisory Legal consultant for Equality Now and SOAWR in Kenya; contributor to a Business Mauritius and Kantar report; speaker on Mauritian family law in India.
international work
Counsel, trainer and consultant.
In Mauritius and beyond.
Her consulting record includes UN Women, UNODC, UNDP, Business Mauritius, IISD, IOM, Equality Now and the Centre for Human Rights at the University of Pretoria.
She has prepared two expert reports on violence against women in Mauritius for UK courts, instructed by solicitors at Islington Law Centre.
Me Pertaub is a member of the Mauritius Bar Council, Rotary Club Grand Bay and the International Association of Women Police. She is President of MPOWER NGO and an affiliate barrister with Pédostop NGO.
gender advisory & internationalselected engagements
A record that travels.
- 2024Legal consultant, multi-sectoral workshop on gender issues, Equality Now & SOAWR, Kenya
- 2024Legal analysis of Mauritian employment law on gender-based violence at the workplace, report for Business Mauritius / Kantar
- 2022–24Expert reports on violence against women in Mauritius for UK court proceedings, instructed via Islington Law Centre
- 2023Judicial trainer on the Right to Water, European judicial training (EJTN/EUFCJE), Judicial School, Barcelona
- 2023Jury member, Africa Gender Equality Moot Court Competition, Kenya
- 2023Report on laws that perpetuate violence against women in Mauritius, Centre for Human Rights, University of Pretoria
- 2023Presentations on women and the law in Mauritius, Brandeis University and UNDP Mauritius
- 2023Legal consultant and trainer on women and the law, National Women Council, all nine districts of Mauritius
- 2022Legal consultant on the Bangkok Rules in Mali and Niger, UNODC
- 2022Legal consultant and trainer, women in the mining sector across fourteen countries, IISD, Canada
- 2022Legal assistance and liaison for victims of human trafficking, International Organization for Migration, Mauritius
- 2021–22Review of the judicial training manual on the Maputo Protocol and training of African judges; UN Women consultancy with the Senegal police
media & features
Selected public work.
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