Rupert is a chancery and commercial barrister.  He has repeatedly been recommended in the leading directories including Chambers & Partners, Legal 500 (for both his London and Caribbean practices) and Chambers HNW, where he is described in the most recent edition as “an astute and very capable advocate” whose attention to detail is “superb” and who “fights very hard for his clients”.

Rupert has a broad traditional chancery practice involving trusts, probate and estates disputes, including cases concerning the validity or otherwise of Wills and inter vivos transactions, construction and rectification applications, breach of trust claims, applications for the removal or substitution of trustees and personal representatives and applications under the Inheritance (Provision for Family and Dependants) Act 1975.

Rupert also has a strong commercial practice encompassing contractual, company and partnership disputes, professional negligence, fraud and asset tracing and insolvency (both corporate and individual).

Rupert has a substantial offshore practice relating to all of his areas of specialism.  He has recently advised in relation to matters in jurisdictions including the Cayman Islands, the British Virgin Islands, Hong Kong and Gibraltar.

Prior to joining Chambers, Rupert was a senior associate in the Cayman Islands office of the market-leading offshore firm Appleby. He had full admission to the Cayman Islands Bar from 2010-2016 and appeared in many of the most significant cases in the jurisdiction during that period, including cases in the Cayman Islands Court of Appeal and the Privy Council.

Before moving to Appleby, Rupert trained and practised as a litigation solicitor, and subsequently as a solicitor-advocate, with Herbert Smith LLP (now Herbert Smith Freehills) in London from 2005-2010.