JLP Opening Conference and Launch - Masterclass on Crisis Communications

The Honourable Chief Justice Sundaresh Menon
Supreme Court of Singapore

Chief Justice Sundaresh Menon was appointed Chief Justice of the Supreme Court on 6 November 2012.

Chief Justice Menon graduated with a Bachelor of Laws (First Class Honours) from the National University of Singapore in 1986 and a Master of Laws from Harvard Law School in 1991. He was admitted as an advocate and solicitor in Singapore in 1987, and as an attorney and counsellor-at-law in New York in 1992.

After he was called to the Bar in Singapore, he practised with major local and international law firms, primarily as an advocate, in the fields of commercial litigation and arbitration, construction law and insolvency law. From 2006 to 2007, he served as a Judicial Commissioner of the Supreme Court. He was appointed Senior Counsel in 2008. In 2010, he was appointed the 6th Attorney-General of Singapore, a post he relinquished in 2012 shortly before his appointment as a Judge of Appeal. He was appointed to the Presidential Council for Minority Rights upon his appointment as Attorney-General in 2010 and was later appointed as its Chairman in 2012, upon his appointment as Chief Justice.

Between 2012 and 2020, Chief Justice Menon served on the Governing Board of the International Council for Commercial Arbitration, and he also served   as a member of the International Chamber of Commerce Governing Body for Dispute Resolution Services from 2021 to March 2024.

He is also an elected member of the American Law Institute, an Honorary Bencher of the Honourable Society of the Inner Temple in England and the President of the Singapore Academy of Law. Chief Justice Menon was conferred the Honorary degree of Doctor of Laws by the University of Western Australia in 2022 for his services to the law and by the National University of Singapore in 2024 for his outstanding service to the practice and adjudication of law. In 2024, he was also awarded the White & Case Distinguished Jessup Alumni Award.

Chief Justince Menon in married with three children.

Mr Yeong Zee Kin

Chief Executive, Singapore Academy of Law

Zee Kin holds a Master of Laws from Queen Mary University of London and completed his undergraduate law degree at the National University of Singapore. His experience as a Technology, Media and Telecommunications lawyer spans both the private and public sectors. He has spoken and published in areas relating to electronic evidence and intellectual property, as well as legal issues relating to Blockchain and AI deployment.

Zee Kin is an internationally recognized expert on AI ethics. He spearheaded the development of Singapore’s Model AI Governance Framework, which won the UNITU WSIS Prize in 2019. He is currently a member of the OECD Network of Experts on AI (ONE AI). In 2019, he was a member of the AI Group of Experts at the OECD (AIGO), which developed the OECD Principles on AI. These principles have been endorsed by the G20 in 2019. He was also an observer participant at the European Commission’s High-Level Expert Group on AI, which fulfilled its mandate in June 2020.

Zee Kin is also a well-regarded expert on data privacy issues. He has contributed to publications on legal issues relating to data privacy, and has spoken at many well-recognised international and domestic platforms on this topic.

Delphine Loo
Senior Director of Learning Professional Development, Singapore Academy of Law

Delphine Loo is an Exco member of the Singapore Academy of Law (SAL) and holds the designation of Chief Legal Officer as well as Senior Director of Learning and Professional Development. She is also the Data Protection Officer for SAL Group of companies.

Delphine graduated from the University of Cambridge with a B.A. in Law (First Class Honours) in 2001 and the National University of Singapore with a Graduate Diploma in Singapore Law (High Distinction) in 2022. She worked as a Justices’ Law Clerk for former Chief Justice Yong Pung How from 2002 to 2003 before getting called to the Singapore Bar and moving on to serve her scholarship bond with SembCorp Industries. She later worked at various international law firms and in-house legal teams before joining the Law Society of Singapore and was its Chief Executive Officer for nearly 6 years.

She joined SAL in 2022. In October 2024, she gained her qualifications in adult education from the Institute of Adult Learning (IAL).

Prof James Lee
Professor of English Law, The Dickson Poon School of Law, King's College London
United Kingdom

James Lee is Professor of English Law at The Dickson Poon School of Law, where he teaches several private law subjects. He is an Academic Bencher of the Honourable Society of the Inner Temple, and an academic member of the Property Litigation Association, Chancery Bar Association and the Property Bar Association. He regularly lectures on tort for the Judicial College of England and Wales. James is one of the General Editors of Legal Studies, the flagship journal of the Society of Legal Scholars. In recent years, his work has been cited by courts in England, Singapore, Hong Kong, Canada and Australia.

Prof Michael Legg
Professor, University of New South Wales
Australia

Michael Legg is a Professor in the Faculty of Law, UNSW and Fellow of the Australian Academy of Law.

He specialises in complex litigation, including regulatory litigation and class actions, and in innovation in the legal profession. 

He is the author of Case Management and Complex Civil Litigation (Federation Press, 2nd ed 2022) and Public and Private Enforcement of Securities Law (Hart, 2022). He is the co-author of Corporate Misconduct and White-Collar Crime (Thomson Reuters, 2022), Artificial Intelligence and the Legal Profession (Hart, 2020), Civil Procedure in New South Wales (Thomson Reuters, 4th ed 2020), Annotated Class Actions Legislation (LexisNexis, 3rd ed 2023).  

Prof Julian Webb
Professor of Law, University of Melbourne
Australia

Julian Webb is a Professor at Melbourne Law School where he teaches in the areas of legal ethics, civil procedure, and regulatory theory. He previously held chairs at the Universities of Warwick and Westminster in the UK and has been an honorary or visiting professor at the Universities of Leeds and Exeter, University College, London, and the Southampton Institute in the UK as well as Cleveland-Marshall College of Law in the USA. He has also held a visiting Senior Research Fellowship at the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, University of London.

Julian's current research focuses on professional culture and lawyer wellbeing, and on technological and regulatory disruption in the law and legal services. He was Principal Investigator on the Melbourne Networked Society Institute project, Regulating Automated Legal Advice Tools (2018) and was lead author of the law and legal services input paper to the Australian Council of Learned Academies’ report to Federal Government, The Effective and Ethical Development of Artificial Intelligence: An Opportunity to Improve our Wellbeing (2019). In 2016 he was identified in a study by the International Bar Association as one of the world's fifteen most cross-cited scholars on innovation and disruption in legal services. His recent paper 'Legal Technology: The Great Disruption' (in Abel et ed, Lawyers in 21st Century Societies) was shortlisted in the Australian Legal Research Awards 2023.

Julian was a founding editor of the international journal Legal Ethics and edits, with Professor John Paterson (University of Aberdeen), the 'Law, Science and Society' book series published by Routledge. His published works include Professional Legal Ethics: Critical Interrogations (Oxford UP, 2000, with Donald Nicholson) and the edited collection, Leading Works in Legal Ethics (Routledge, 2023).

Praveen Randhawa
Founder & CEO

With over 25 years of communications experience across organisations in the public and private sectors, Praveen is a highly skilled advisor to CEOs and Boards on critical issues spanning crisis communications, litigation and disputes, policy and regulatory communications. She has successfully transformed the communications capabilities of organisations to meet business needs and respond to the evolving external operating environment.

Praveen served in leadership positions across the Singapore government and private sector. She led public affairs at the Singapore Economic Development Board, managing a number of high-profile business critical issues, transforming the communications capability into a high performing strategic function and increased public support levels for the Board’s work. At the Ministry of Law, she served concurrently as Press Secretary to the Minister for Law and Communications Director overseeing corporate, policy and industry communications. At the Health Promotion Board, she led award-winning national campaigns as part of the country’s efforts in preventative health.

Her private sector experience includes leading Meta’s communications across Southeast Asia and stints in consulting with Brunswick Group and Weber Shandwick Worldwide, where she worked on a range of accounts across industry and practice sectors. At Brunswick Group, Praveen also led the development of Litigation Communications as a practice sector in Singapore.

From 2004 to 2010, Praveen served the United Nations, initially as a Spokesperson for the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, before undertaking political affairs work for the UNHumanRights Council.

Passionate about developing people and giving back to the community, Praveen has served on the Executive Committee of the Singapore Indian Development Association (SINDA) since 2021 where she chairs the Taskforce on the Advancement of Indian Women as well as Sub Committee on Media and Communications.

Praveen is an Accredited Member of IPRS, the highest industry recognition bestowed on the best in the profession. She has a Bachelor of Arts in Politics and a Master of Arts in International Law and Politics from Hull University. In 2023 she was conferred the degree of Doctor of Letters Honoris Causa for contributions to public service and the advancement of Indian women.

Simran Toor

Consultant, Singapore Academy of Law

Simran Toor is a consultant at the Singapore Academy of Law. With a career spanning over two decades, she has established herself as an experienced and impactful advocate for her clients, and a thought leader for gender equality.

Simran began her legal journey as a criminal prosecutor at the Attorney-General’s Chambers of Singapore. Thereafter, as a disputes partner at WongPartnership LLP, Simran specialised in white-collar and financial crime, regulatory investigations, and prosecution work for government bodies. She played a pivotal role in the in numerous complex litigation cases, and provided strategic advice in many high-profile matters, and co-authored  several chapters in prominent legal publications, including the Chambers White-Collar Crime 2021 guide and the Chambers Anti-Corruption Law and Practice guide.

Simran’s commitment to fostering a supportive and inclusive legal community is evident in her numerous roles and contributions.

She served as an elected member of the Council of the Law Society of Singapore for 12 years, where she championed access to justice issues and equitable treatment for women lawyers. In 2019, she co-founded the Women in Practice Committee. As Co-Chairperson, she spearheaded initiatives to support women in law, and to combat bullying and harassment within the legal profession.

In 2022, Simran was appointed the first CEO of SG Her Empowerment (SHE), a non-profit organisation dedicated to tackling gender inequality and empowering women in the digital age. Under her leadership, SHE launched initiatives to support victims of online harm, harassment, and non-consensual image sharing, and undertook crucial research to advocate for policy change.

Simran sits on the boards of KidStart Singapore Limited, a Government organisation that provides help and support to help underprivileged children under the age of 6 thrive, and I Love Children, an charity that advocates for better fertility awareness in Singapore. She has also contributed to the Birthday Book, a collection of essays by Singaporean thought leaders, on the topic of unconscious gender bias.