Sanduni Nisansala Hansamalee Kotigala

• Reviewed data protection agreements and sale and purchase agreements, providing insights to senior counsel.
• Conducted due diligence and KYC checks across commercial, corporate, and data protection law, identifying and resolving discrepancies to enhance senior counsel's review process.
• Supported the implementation of new compliance policies and procedures, producing accurate, audit-ready documentation and a faster turnaround for senior counsel.
• Supported legal projects by collaborating with external counsel teams, ensuring alignment with compliance standards.

• Identified inefficiencies in largely paper-based court system and developed digital case-tracking platform from scratch, creating structured filing system indexed by filing date and party name for faster retrieval of case materials and enabling remote working.
• Managed 50 concurrent legal research and documentation workstreams with zero missed deadlines, coordinating with senior judicial figures and stakeholders across multiple divisions of the Court while maintaining accurate, audit-ready records under sustained pressure.
• Drafted and proofread briefing notes and judgments, including landmark ruling requiring full review under significant time pressure, to zero-margin-for-error standard.
• Chambers of the Chief Justice

• Privately tutored six final-year LLB students in Company Law: 100% pass rate, and one student went on to win the University World Prize for Company Law.
• Conducted one-on-one sessions for personalised attention to each student's needs.
• Encouraged open communication during sessions, enhancing comfort levels and participation rates.
• Enhanced student comprehension by utilising interactive teaching methods.

Dissertation: “AI as an Assistant, Not as an Arbiter: Governing Artificial Intelligence in Legal Practice and the Judiciary” (submitted 1 September 2026).

PG Dip/Cert Commercial and Corporate Law (2021-22). Focused study of UK data protection law (GDPR), financial services regulation (AML) and corporate governance frameworks.

• Second Class Honours (Upper Division). Received a University World Prize for the Company Law module.
• GPA: 2:1
• Member of KCL legal tech society, politics society, law society.