Andrew James Briscoe

Qualification and Experience

Andrew Briscoe has been a consultant to Briscoe Attorneys since its foundation. Andrew was educated in the U.K. at the Universities of Durham and Cambridge. Before emigrating to Botswana, he taught law at Universities in Nottingham and London. Andrew is one of the country’s leading employment and labour lawyers, and wrote the first book to be published on labour law in Botswana in 1994. Since then, he has conducted over 500 seminars both in Botswana and overseas on practically every aspect of labour law in Botswana and has written 34 issues of the Botswana Labour Law Review. He has also authored over twenty other books on a diverse range of subjects including business law, the control of money laundering, combating corruption, environmental law, water law and the regulation of banking, which have been published in several countries including Germany, South Africa, the U.K and the U.S.A. as well as in Botswana.

Andrew has a special interest in good governance. He was a founding member and director of Transparency International Botswana and was commissioned by Parliament to draft a Code of Conduct for Members of Parliament. He believes that Botswana needs a robust Freedom of Information Act.

Away from his legal career, Andrew is a collector and student of postal history, the history of written communication. He is an authority on the postal history of Southern Africa, an elected Fellow of the Royal Philatelic Society of London and a signatory of the Roll of Distinguished Philatelists of South Africa. He has written over 50 articles on postal history, published in various journals, several of which have won awards. His most recent book is entitled The Postal History of the Siege of Mafeking, to be published by the Philatelic Federation of South Africa.