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Best Practice Guide published today! - EU-funded POAM Project
Major milestone achieved for the University of Aberdeen led EU-funded POAM project as the Best Practice Guide is officially published today. The Best Practice Guide on the protection of abducting mothers in return proceedings involving allegations of domestic violence was prepared under the auspices of the POAM research project funded by...
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The Centre for Private International Law hosted the third POAM project management meeting
On 28 July 2020, our Dr Katarina Trimmings and Dr Onyoja Momoh hosted the POAM project management and co-ordination meeting, the third of its kind as the project marked 18 months. In keeping with the current times, the Aberdeen team employed the use of the University online platform Collaborate to...
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The POAM research team hosted the International Experts' Workshop
On 19 June 2020, the POAM research team hosted the International Experts’ Workshop ‘Rethinking the Protection of Abducting Mothers in Return Proceedings: Domestic Violence and Parental Child Abduction’. The workshop, which was originally due to be held in Milan on 27 March 2020 and hosted by Professor Costanza Honorati, was...
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Dr Trimmings published a Project Report on the reform of the UK surrogacy laws
On 12 June 2020, Dr Katarina Trimmings (Centre for Private International Law) completed her Clark Foundation-funded research project titled 'UK Surrogacy Law Reform: Exploring the Application of Surrogacy Laws, Attitudes towards Surrogacy, and Attitudes towards the Reform of the Law Governing Surrogacy amongst Judges and Legal Practitioners in Scotland'. The...
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Centre for Private International Law research informs MEPs' request for reform of EU defamation law
A cross-party group of Members of the European Parliament wrote to the European Commission today requesting the recasting of EU private international law of defamation, as well as the introduction of an anti-SLAPP Directive. SLAPPs (Strategic Lawsuits Against Public Participation) are vexatious legal techniques designed to limit public scrutiny of...
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European press freedom organisations demand reform of EU defamation law based on Aberdeen research
Over 25 press freedom organisations and civic organisations have written to the European Commission requesting reforms to EU law on defamation which are based on advice procured from our Centre for Private International Law. The NGOs note that “the weaponization of the law by powerful economic actors has for too...
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Conference on International Refugee Law organised by School of Law experts
Last month, the Research Centre for Constitutional and Public International Law organised an expert conference on international refugee law: comparative policy perspectives from Asia and Europe. Featuring law faculty members and researchers from Kobe University (Japan), the British Institute of International and Comparative Law (London) and De Montfort University (Leicester),...
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Dr Onyoja Momoh at the 23rd Annual Family Law Conference (MDT/UWC)
Onyoja Momoh, 2020 recipient of the International Grant (FLBA) with support from the POAM project Grant, at the 23rd Annual Family Law Conference by Miller du Toit Cloete Inc / University of the Western Cape, Cape Town, South Africa, 11 to 13 March 2020.
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Dr Justin Borg-Barthet has been researching legal reforms to improve press freedoms
Our Dr Justin Borg-Barthet has been researching legal reforms to improve press freedoms since the assassination of journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia in 2017. Last week, he presented his work on reform of EU Defamation Law and chaired a strategy session at the Greenpeace anti-SLAPP symposium in Amsterdam. This was followed...
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POAM project - Project Management & Co-ordination Meeting No 2
On 27 January 2020, Dr Katarina Trimmings and Dr Onyoja Momoh organised the bi-annual Project Management and Co-ordination Meeting for the POAM project, a significant milestone as the research team has reached the half-way mark on the project. Hosted by the Centre for Private International Law at the University of...