Rayan has a diverse practice encompassing all areas of Chambers’ expertise, with a particular focus on public and human rights law, commercial law and financial services, media and entertainment, competition law, public international law, and sanctions. He has appeared in most courts in the jurisdiction across a range of practice areas, including the Supreme Court, the Court of Appeal, the High Court, the Competition Appeal Tribunal, the Upper Tribunal, the First-tier Tribunal and the County Court.

Recent highlights of Rayan’s practice include the following:

• Successfully representing the claimants in proceedings before the Supreme Court, the Court of Appeal, the High Court and the European Court of Human Rights challenging the Government’s policy of removing asylum seekers from the UK to Rwanda: AAA v Secretary of State for the Home Department [2023] UKSC 42; NSK v United Kingdom (Application No. 28774/22).
• Successfully representing Ed Sheeran in a high profile copyright dispute in relation to the song ‘Shape of You’: Sheeran v Chokri [2022] EWHC 827 (Ch).
• Acting for the First and Second Defendants in a civil fraud claim in the High Court alleged to be worth in excess of USD $940m: Public Institution for Social Security v Al-Rajaan & Others.
• Representing the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs in the Supreme Court, Court of Appeal and High Court in the first challenge to a sanctions designation made under the post-Brexit Russia sanctions regime: Shvidler v Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs [2024] EWCA Civ 172; [2023] EWHC 2121 (Admin).
• Acting for the Claimant in a challenge to the UK Government’s decision to continue granting arms export licences to Israel in the context of the ongoing war in Gaza, including on the grounds that the Secretary of State’s conclusion that there was not a clear risk that arms would be used to commit or facilitate serious violations of international humanitarian law was irrational: R (Al-Haq) v Secretary of State for Business and Trade.
• Acting for Scania in the ongoing Trucks cartel litigation in the Competition Appeal Tribunal and the High Court: [2024] CAT 2.
• Representing the claimant in judicial review proceedings in the Upper Tribunal challenging the Secretary of State’s refusal to grant an application for a student visa on the grounds that the claimant’s presence in the UK would not be conducive to the public good: R (Ashkar) v Secretary of State for the Home Department [2024] JR-2022-LON-002069.
• Acting for the Intervener (JUSTICE) in proceedings before the Supreme Court and the Court of Appeal concerning the nature and scope of the Special Immigration Appeals Commission’s jurisdiction in appeals of citizenship deprivation decisions taken on national security grounds: U3 v Secretary of State for the Home Department [2023] EWCA Civ 811.
• Acting for the Financial Conduct Authority in proceedings before the Upper Tribunal concerning allegations of a lack of integrity in relation to the creation and dissemination of a presentation which contained manipulative trading strategies aimed at creating a false or misleading impression as to the market in, or the price of, Qatari bonds, with a view to harming the economy of Qatar: FCA v Banque Havilland SA & Ors [2024] UKUT 00115 (TCC).