Rasteen was called to the bar in July 2025 after obtaining a full scholarship from Lincoln’s Inn to study the bar course and is developing a broad family practice across both public and private law matters.
Rasteen commenced a family pupillage under the supervision of Tammi Bannon and Nadia Koucheksarai and began taking her own instructions in September 2025.
During her first six, Rasteen observed and assisted on a number of high-profile and complex public law cases concerning issues including:
- Non-accidental injury,
- Multiple and historical physical injuries,
- Child sex abuse featuring sexually transmitted diseases,
- Child substance misuse and addiction,
- Adult substance misuse,
- Non-Hague convention abduction and neglect.
Rasteen has experience representing :
- Parents engaged in public law proceedings facing allegations of chronic neglect
- Family members as intervening parties to care proceedings
- Highly vulnerable and young clients
- Parents in child arrangements proceedings
- Victims of domestic abuse in their applications for ex parte non molestation orders
- Parents and victims applying for prohibited steps orders and 91(14) barring orders
Before being called to the bar, Rasteen enjoyed a career in public affairs in Westminster, lobbying and influencing public policy and legislation on behalf of NGOs. She led Parliament’s independent inquiry into loneliness as the Secretariat for the All-Party Parliamentary Group for Loneliness, working alongside MPs and Peers.
Rasteen has an in depth understanding of domestic abuse and violence having previously:
- Assisted victims on a pro-bono basis to obtain non-molestation orders for the National Centre for Domestic Violence,
- Volunteered for a legal research group at the University of Manchester researching the mental health impacts of private law proceedings on victims of domestic abuse
- Completed a 21-hour course in domestic violence Awareness, studying concepts such as the cycle of abuse, coercive control and the impact of abuse on children
- Volunteered as a lecturer for the School Consent Project, educating school children on the importance of consent in sexual intercourse and the issue of consent in respect of rape and sexual assault.
Rasteen is also a native Farsi (Persian) speaker and is comfortable advising clients orally in Farsi.
