Artis is a senior barrister with twenty years' experience. She represents and advises people facing some of the most difficult decisions of their lives — separation and divorce, disputes about children, moving abroad with a child, looking after a relative who has lost capacity, and defending a professional reputation.
Financial remedies on divorce or separation
If you are separating or divorcing and need to resolve money — the family home, savings, pensions, businesses, debts, foreign assets, or maintenance — Artis can advise on what a fair outcome looks like, represent you at any hearing, and help you negotiate a settlement. She acts in:
Financial remedy proceedings (FDA, FDR, and final hearings)
Cases involving business interests, trusts, pensions, and overseas property
Pre-nuptial and post-nuptial agreements
Schedule 1 Children Act applications (financial provision for children of unmarried parents)
Variation of existing financial orders
International relocation (taking a child to live abroad)
If you want to move overseas with your child — or if your former partner is proposing to move and you want to oppose it — relocation cases are amongst the most sensitive in family law. The court has to weigh the welfare of the child, the genuineness of the move, the impact on the relationship with the other parent, and the practicalities of contact across borders.
Artis is regularly instructed in relocation cases involving Jamaica, the United States, Australia, the Middle East and Europe, and acts for both applicant and opposing parents.
Child arrangements (contact and residence)
Disputes about where a child lives and how often they see each parent are dealt with through Child Arrangements Orders. Artis acts at every stage, including the more difficult cases that involve allegations needing a fact-finding hearing, parental alienation, or international elements. Specifically:
Sole or shared residence (where the child lives)
Contact arrangements (including indirect, supervised and overseas contact)
Specific issue and prohibited steps orders (schooling, religion, medical treatment, name change, holiday travel)
Enforcement of existing contact orders
Fact-finding hearings where allegations of harm, domestic abuse or coercive control are made
International child abduction (Hague Convention return cases and Article 21 access)
Court of Protection (when someone has lost capacity)
The Court of Protection makes decisions for people who cannot make decisions for themselves — most often because of dementia, brain injury, learning disability or mental illness. This is an increasingly large part of my practice. Artis advises families, professional deputies, and individuals on:
Applications to revoke a Lasting Power of Attorney where it is being misused
Deputyship applications (financial or welfare) and disputes between family members about who should be deputy
Disagreements about where a person should live or who they should have contact with
Decisions about medical treatment and care
Deprivation of liberty issues, particularly for young adults moving from children's services into adult social care
Statutory will applications and gifting decisions
Professional discipline and regulatory work
Artis represents professionals facing fitness-to-practise, conduct or regulatory proceedings before bodies such as ACCA, NMC, HCPC, SWE and other professional regulators. She can advise on:
Initial response to allegations and responding to a regulator's investigation
Interim orders and suspension hearings
Substantive fitness-to-practise and conduct hearings
Sanction submissions, mitigation, and appeals
Parallel issues where regulatory and family or safeguarding concerns intersect
Who Artis works with
Spouses, civil partners and cohabitees in financial remedy and Schedule 1 cases
Parents, grandparents, step-parents and kinship carers in private children proceedings
International and dual-national families dealing with relocation, abduction, and cross-border issues
Family members and professional deputies acting for someone who lacks capacity
Accountants, social workers, solicitors, teachers and other regulated professionals facing disciplinary proceedings
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