01 · define
Terms of reference
The legal or policy question, the jurisdiction, the audience, and the date the instructing body needs it.
gender advisory & international
Gender advisory from a lawyer in Mauritius, for boards and international institutions.
This is advisory work for institutions: gender-based violence, harassment at work, and access to justice. It ends in a document the instructing body can use.
for boards & directors
Advice designed for
serious rooms.
Lex Aquila Advocates advises boards, directors and institutions on gender-related questions in their legal and organisational setting. The form may be an advisory note, a director briefing, a review or a workshop built around a defined decision.
The subjects recur: violence against women, gender-based violence at work, harassment and discrimination, and the access of women to the courts and to the police. A legal conclusion and an organisational choice are told apart.
terms of reference
What an institution receives, and who acts on it.
02 · draft
The deliverable
A legislative review, a policy note, an institutional assessment or a training curriculum, written to the body’s own mandate.
03 · present
The handover
The findings are put to those who must act on them: directors, programme officers, or judges and police in training.
international consultancy
Legal, institutional
and international.
Me Mokshda Pertaub has served as consultant to UN Women, UNODC, UNDP, IISD (Canada) and Equality Now. The mandates have covered the Bangkok Rules in Mali and Niger, policing and gender-based violence in Senegal, and women in the mining sector.
She prepared the Business Mauritius and Kantar report on gender-based violence at work. She is a former Director of the Institute for Judicial and Legal Studies, appointed January 2017, and has trained judges in Mauritius and abroad.
related reading
Law, institutions and the workplace.
Employment and workplace guidance
Sexual harassment, discrimination and workplace obligations in Mauritius, read alongside the governance duties of boards.
read the guide →The Mauritian legal system
The institutions, courts and professional roles an advisory mandate may touch.
read the guide →Family and protection questions
Protection orders and related family-law questions, where gender and private life meet the courts.
read the guide →discuss the mandate
Begin with the institution, audience and decision.
Send the institution, the audience and the decision. You will be told the scope.