Mardemootoo Attorneys at Law


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Mardemootoo Attorneys at Law

Les Jamalacs, Vieux Conseil Street
Port Louis
Mauritius

Phone +230 254 0914
Fax +230 212 2422

Law Firm Overview

Mardemootoo Attorneys at Law is headed by Manon Mardemootoo a Senior Attorney and managed by Sivakumaren Mardemootoo.

The law firm has a very large banking, commercial and corporate practice. It provides advice to most of the international banks operating in Mauritius, to several multinational petroleum companies and to one of the four major international auditing firms. It also advises the joint liquidators of a wholly owned Mauritian subsidiary of a U.S corporation known to have caused one of the biggest corporate collapses in the world history, which subsidiary held a major role in the group. The firm also advises several large European investment funds and various parastatal bodies in Mauritius. The firm also advises on mergers and acquisitions (amalgamation), maritime claims, telecommunication law issues and civil engineering contracts (e.g. EPC). The firm also engages in the registration of aircrafts in Mauritius.

The firm also advises the Chagos Refugees Group, which includes the 5000 members of the displaced and exiled Chagossian community. On November 3rd 2000 in their legal proceedings against the United Kingdom and United States of America, the High Court of London ruled in favour of the Chagossians declaring unlawful the British Indian Ocean Territory Immigration Ordinance of 1971 which was drawn up to displace the population from the Chagos Archipelago for the purpose of incorporating the U.S. Military Base of Diego Garcia. The ruling was described by Michael Fordham as the most important judicial review judgment for the year 2000 in England.

When the British Government, in 2004, purported to bypass the said judgment by causing two Orders in Council to be passed by Her Majesty the Queen, the firm again instructed its correspondents in London to apply for a judicial review of the two Orders in Council. The High Court of London, on the 11th May 2006, delivered another landmark ruling by declaring 'repugnant' Her Majesty's Orders and reviewing them. A class action and a multi-party action have been lodged in Washington D.C and London respectively claiming in excess of 12 Billion U.S Dollars in compensatory damages against the U.S and U.K Governments.

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