Legal Aid Botswana provides legal services such as legal advice and services of a lawyer to represent you in the Magistrates’ Courts, the High Court, Industrial Court, Land Tribunal and the Court of Appeal. We help in sorting out your legal problems, such as family matters, employment issues and lawsuits like damages. State taxes are used to pay for these services. It is a professional legal servi
ce offered by private lawyers under the Law Society, NGOs and in-house lawyers provided by Legal Aid Botswana. HOW TO APPLY
You need to go to one of the Legal Aid Botswana offices in Gaborone or Francistown, or anywhere where there are LAB offices. You need to bring your Omang, your payslip, if you are employed and any papers that have to do with your case, like your marriage certificate, birth certificates for your children, contracts, legal papers etc.The legal aid officer needs to see that you cannot afford a lawyer. He or she will ask you to state how much you earn and own. This is the Means Test. Only citizens of Botswana, who cannot afford a lawyer, qualify for legal aid. However, your case must have a reasonable chance of winning and you cannot refuse a reasonable settlement. OBJECTIVES OF LEGAL AID BOTSWANA. Every person is entitled to equality before the law. LAB, therefore endeavours, within its means, to balance the scales of justice in an independent and impartial manner. Its objective is to make legal aid available to indigent persons as widely as possible within its financial means.
