Best practice in access to justice: lessons from the pandemic

Richard J. Sullivan was sworn in as a Judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit in October 2018. Before that, Judge Sullivan served for eleven years as a trial judge on the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York in Manhattan. Prior to becoming a judge, he was General Counsel and Managing Director of Marsh Inc., the world's leading risk management and insurance brokerage firm. From 1994 to 2005, he served as an Assistant United States Attorney in the Southern District of New York, where he was Chief of the International Narcotics Trafficking Unit and Director of the New York/New Jersey Organized Crime Drug Enforcement Task Force. In 2003, he was awarded the Henry L. Stimson Medal from the Association of the Bar of the City of New York. In 1998, he was named the Federal Law Enforcement Association=s Prosecutor of the Year. Prior to joining the U.S. Attorney=s Office, Judge Sullivan was an attorney in private practice at the law firm of Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz in New York and a law clerk to the Honorable David M. Ebel of the United States Court of Appeals for the 10th Circuit. He is a graduate of Yale Law School and the College of William & Mary in Virginia. From 1986 to 1987, he served as a New York City Urban Fellow under New York City Police Commissioner Benjamin Ward. Judge Sullivan is on the executive board of the New York American Inn of Court and the Center for Law and Religion at St. John’s University School of Law. He is an adjunct professor at Columbia Law School, where he teaches courses on sentencing and jurisprudence, and he previously served as an adjunct professor at Fordham Law School, where he taught courses on white collar crime and trial advocacy and was named Adjunct Professor of the Year.

Katrina is the National Registrar and Chief Legal Counsel of the Veterans’ Review Board, responsible for managing the staff and functions of the Board across Australia. A lawyer, collaborative public service leader and change agent, Katrina has over 15 years’ senior leadership experience in tribunals. Katrina has successfully delivered strategic projects and operational transformation to establish a culture that improves tribunal performance to meet the aim of resolving disputes fairly, efficiently, quickly. Katrina led the development of the VRB’s transformative Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR) Program which radically improved the VRB's resolution rates and time targets. Katrina was awarded a Public Service Medal for her work. Katrina has a strong interest in how justice systems can put the people who use them at their heart. Katrina is an Accredited Specialist in Government and Administrative Law. She is the current Treasurer for the Council of Australasian Tribunals (COAT) NSW; a member of the Government Solicitors Committee and the Licensing Committee of the Law Society of NSW.

Nallini Pathmanathan is a judge of the apex court in Malaysia, the Federal Court. She holds a degree in Physiology from the University of London and undertook the conversion course in law, prior to being called to the English Bar in 1984. She then joined a legal firm, Skrine, in Kuala Lumpur and practiced at the Bar for 21 years before being appointed a judge of the superior judiciary in 2007. She was elevated to the Court of Appeal in 2014, and the Federal Court in 2018. Nallini is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators as well as a certified mediator.