The Law Society of Botswana (LSB) has announced it will take urgent legal action to challenge what it describes as an “irregular and unlawful” appointment of former Attorney General Mmako Abram to the High Court bench. The society says the Judicial Service Commission (JSC) has once again bypassed constitutional norms, long-standing practices, and its own repeated calls for transparency in judicial appointments.

In a statement issued on Wednesday, the LSB said it learned of Abram’s appointment through the media on 8 November 2025, an appointment it argues was made without public advertisement of a vacancy and without any application from the appointee. This, the Society says, violates established constitutional principles, decades-old judicial appointment practice, and the LSB’s own policy positions dating back to 2011.