Rustan joined Quadrant in October 2026, following the successful completion of pupillage and is developing his practice across Chambers’ core areas.
Rustan graduated with a Double First in History and Politics from the University of Oxford, having been the recipient of a number of college and university prizes.
He subsequently studied the Graduate Diploma in Law and Bar Course at City University, where he graduated top of year on the GDL. During this time, Rustan worked part-time at a boutique EU firm specialising in gaming.
Rustan has been exposed to work across the breadth of Chambers’ practice areas. Illustrative examples are given below.
Shipping
- Drafting a skeleton argument (as a pupil) resisting an appeal under s.69 of the Arbitration Act 1996, arising from an LMAA off-hire dispute concerning port quarantines imposed as a result of Covid-19.
- Drafting pleadings and advising on cargo claims arising from the carriage of bulk cargo, involving issues of cargo-worthiness, mitigation, waiver and the application of the Hague-Visby Rules.
- Advising (as a pupil) on a dispute arising from the seizure of a cargo by state actors in the Strait of Hormuz, involving issues of dangerous cargo and implied indemnity.
- Assisting (as a pupil) in a c.27m USD three-week LMAA arbitration arising from a fire on board a vessel, involving issues of seaworthiness, dangerous cargo, implied indemnity, and frustration.
- Drafting an application (as a pupil) for a partial final award in an LMAA arbitration, involving issues of off-hire and set-off under a bareboat charter.
- Assisting (as a pupil) in a vessel underperformance dispute, involving issues of vessel performance, charterparty construction and the quantification of speed and consumption claims.
- Advising and drafting submissions (as a pupil) on an application for a partial final award in an LMAA arbitration concerning vessel underperformance, involving issues of weather certification and dispute resolution clauses.
- Advising (as a pupil) Owners on the scope of a liability exclusion clause in a ship management agreement.
- Drafting pleadings (as a pupil) in a ship sale dispute under the Norwegian Saleform 2012, involving alleged misrepresentation.
- Assisting in a dispute concerning the termination and breach involving the blacklisting of a vessel by a load-port terminal.
- Drafting pleadings and advising on a cargo contamination claim arising from the carriage of bulk cargo, involving issues of cargo-worthiness, mitigation, waiver and the application of the Hague-Visby Rules.
- Drafting pleadings in an indemnity claim concerning personal injury to stevedores and liability for foreign legal proceedings.
- Advising on the construction and effect of a clause incorporating the Inter-Club Agreement into a charterparty.
Commercial Dispute Resolution
- Drafting Particulars of Claim (as a pupil) in a High Court telecoms dispute involving issues including specific performance and breach of fiduciary duties.
- Assisting (as a pupil) in advising on and drafting Particulars of Claim in a software licensing dispute, involving issues of termination and unjust enrichment.
- Advising (as a pupil) on the validity of the termination of a long-term logistics supply agreement.
- Advising on re-insurance claims arising out of the Russian Aviation litigation.
Commodities & International Trade
- Assisting (as a pupil) in Trafigura Pte Ltd v Société Nationale de Raffinage [2026] EWHC 1914 (Comm), successfully obtaining an anti-suit injunction restraining proceedings in Cameroon concerning a dispute about the quality of an oil cargo.
- Advising (as a pupil) on potential claims for non-delivery of a CIF shipment of jetfuel, arising from the 2026 crisis in the Strait of Hormuz, involving issues of force majeure.
- Assisting (as a pupil) in an urgent application for a High Court freezing order and the delivery up of c. USD 24 million of automotive gasoil.
- Assisting (as a pupil) in a five-day LMAA arbitration concerning non-delivery of foodstuffs and the quantification of damages by reference to available market.
- Advising (as a pupil) on issues of non-delivery, quality and termination arising from a CIF shipment of crude oil.
Banking and Finance
- Advising on and drafting Particulars of Claim (as a pupil) in multiple Quincecare claims against banks, including claims brought as derivative actions.
Sanctions
- Advising (as a pupil) on the scope and effect of a sanctions clause in a charterparty, involving issues of termination, mitigation and breach.