Mauritius law notes
Case Law & Research Notes
Short, practical write-ups on the themes running through Mauritian case law and legislation, researched with Themis, reviewed by humans.
Accounting
Automating an Accounting Practice: The Books, the Spreadsheets and the Month-End →
Stage by stage: document intake, extraction and coding, the spreadsheet layer we deliberately do not replace, reconciliation, the close, and what stays with the practitioner.
August 2026 · 7 min read
AI policy
Mauritius's National AI Strategy and the FAIR Guidelines →
The strategy launched in April 2026, AI became the first pillar of the Budget, and 50,000 people are to be trained. What actually changes for an organisation deploying AI here.
August 2026 · 7 min read
Public sector
AI in the Mauritian Public Sector: Where It Works, and Where It Should Not →
Triage, document processing and translation are strong candidates for government AI. Decisions determining an individual's entitlement are not. How to tell them apart.
August 2026 · 7 min read
Public sector
Selling AI to Government in Mauritius: How Procurement Works →
The Public Procurement Act 2006, the Central Procurement Board, the e-Procurement System and the AI Marketplace, and the four places technically strong bids lose.
August 2026 · 7 min read
Financial services
AI in Financial Services: What the FSC's Rules Require →
Human-in-the-loop, model drift, and the Robotic and AI Enabled Advisory Services Rules 2021, and the four things we would put in place before deploying anything.
August 2026 · 7 min read
Compliance
Automating AML and KYC Without Breaking Compliance →
Screening triage and case assembly are strong candidates. Discharging an alert is not. Plus the three failure modes that stay invisible until an inspection.
August 2026 · 6 min read
Finance
Finance AI in Mauritius: Where the Return Actually Comes From →
Close speed, exception cost, errors that never became incidents, and the reporting nobody currently produces. Headcount reduction is not on the list.
August 2026 · 6 min read
Data protection
The Data Protection Act 2017 and AI in Mauritius →
Not the National AI Strategy but the DPA 2017 is what binds you today. When profiling and automated decision-making trigger a DPIA, and what one should establish.
August 2026 · 6 min read
AI adoption
How to Choose an AI Company in Mauritius →
Nine questions that separate a provider still useful in two years from one that sells you a demo, and the twenty-question pilot that tells you which you are dealing with.
August 2026 · 6 min read
Governance
What Your Staff Are Already Doing With AI →
Shadow adoption is already happening in your firm. The risk is not the tool; it is the absence of a decision about what data may leave, what output can be relied on, and who is responsible.
August 2026 · 3 min read
Policy
An AI Use Policy for a Mauritian Law Firm: What Belongs In It →
A firm-specific AI use policy is not a list of banned tools. It is a set of decisions about confidentiality, verification, privilege and liability that the partnership can defend to a client or a regulator.
August 2026 · 3 min read
Evaluation
How to Measure Whether Legal AI Is Actually Accurate →
Accuracy claims are easy to publish and hard to check. A firm evaluating legal AI needs a method that tests what lawyers actually care about: real authorities, correctly cited, supporting the right proposition.
August 2026 · 3 min read
Engineering
We Indexed Every Act, Regulation and Judgment in Mauritius →
Building Themis meant assembling the complete published corpus of Mauritian law. The engineering story is less about scale and more about the shape of the data: bilingual, scattered, and full of traps for a system that needs to cite.
August 2026 · 3 min read
Employment
Unfair Dismissal in Mauritius: The Procedural-Fairness Thread →
Across decades of judgments, one requirement never softens: the employee must be heard before the axe falls. What that means in practice.
July 2026 · 4 min read
Courts
The Privy Council's Quiet Hand on Mauritian Law →
Why a committee sitting in London still shapes what Mauritian courts decide, and why research that stops at the Supreme Court is incomplete.
July 2026 · 4 min read
Research
Mauritian Legal Research: From the Law Library to AI →
How a generation of practitioners went from bound volumes to full-corpus search, and what actually changed about the work.
July 2026 · 5 min read
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