Where to get legal help in Mauritius
Each link goes to the body's own website, which publishes its current telephone number and address. juris does not copy them here because it cannot check when they change, and a wrong number is worse than none. juris does not recommend, rank or refer you to any individual lawyer, and takes no fee from anyone listed.
Legal aid
You may qualify for legal aid, and the threshold changed recently
The Legal Aid and Legal Assistance Act 2025 replaced the 1973 Act on 5 January 2026 and raised the means test. Many pages online, and the Attorney-General's own consolidated PDF of the old Act, still show the repealed figures.
Legal aid requires average monthly household income not exceeding 25,000 rupees, and assets not exceeding one million rupees, excluding clothing, tools of trade and the subject matter of the proceedings.
Subject to section 8(3), no person shall be eligible to obtain legal aid in civil or criminal proceedings unless - (a) his average monthly household income does not exceed 25,000 rupees; and (b) his assets, excluding his wearing apparel, tools of trade and, if any, the subject matter of the proceedings, do not exceed one million rupees.
The 1973 Act was repealed by the 2025 Act.
The Legal Aid and Legal Assistance Act is repealed.
It came into operation on 5 January 2026.
NOW THEREFORE, by virtue of section 22 of the Legal Aid and Legal Assistance Act 2025, I do hereby proclaim that the said Act shall come into operation on 5 January 2026.
An application for legal aid is made to the Court by swearing an affidavit in the form set out in the Schedule to the Act.
A person who is a party to civil or criminal proceedings and who wishes to obtain legal aid shall make an application to the Court by swearing an affidavit in the form set out in the Schedule.
Official links
Public bodies that can help
Ministry of Labour and Industrial Relations
For: Any dispute with an employer: dismissal, redundancy, unpaid wages, hours.
Equal Opportunities Commission
For: You were treated differently because of who you are. The Act sets 12 months from the act complained of.
For: A government department, the Police or the Prisons Service treated you unjustly through maladministration.
For: Your personal data was misused, exposed, or you were refused access to it.
Competition Commission of Mauritius
For: A business practice that restricts competition: price fixing, abuse of a dominant position, collusion.
For: Finding a barrister. The Association publishes its own members list; juris does not recommend anyone on it.
Law Society of Mauritius: registered attorneys
For: Finding an attorney (attorneys and barristers do different work in Mauritius).
For: You are in immediate danger, or you need to report a crime. This is not a legal question and juris is not the right tool for it.
What this page does not list
- Non-governmental legal advice organisations: Several are named in the plan for this work, but none of the domains tried on 2026-08-14 resolved. Listing an organisation behind a dead link, on the screen a person reaches when juris has already failed them, is worse than listing nothing. They go in when a live official page is confirmed.
- Telephone numbers and addresses: juris has no source it can check them against and no way to notice when one changes. Each body publishes its own on the page linked here.
- Family matters: Consistently with the rest of juris, no family matter is routed, because the Family Division of the Supreme Court is not represented in this corpus. The Police entry is listed for immediate danger, which is not a routing decision.
This page is legal information, not legal advice. juris never predicts how a matter will be decided. Check the source before you rely on a passage.