News Archive - POAM Project

Forthcoming Project Book: Domestic Violence and Parental Child Abduction

Katarina Trimmings, Anatol Dutta, Costanza Honorati and Mirela Zupan (eds), Domestic Violence and Parental Child Abduction (Intersentia, 2022)

The forthcoming book, Domestic Violence and Parental Child Abduction, is the culmination of the POAM (Protection of Abducting Mothers in Return Proceedings) project and will be available from July 2022. The book presents and analyses the findings of the project and brings together contributions by the project partners and renowned experts

Published on 20th April 2022

Project Journal Article published

The POAM journal article has been published in the International Journal of Law, Policy and the Family. Katarina Trimmings, Onyója Momoh, Intersection between Domestic Violence and International Parental Child Abduction: Protection of Abducting Mothers in Return Proceedings, International Journal of Law, Policy and the Family, Volume 35, Issue 1, 2021

Published on 6th May 2021

Project leaflet published

The POAM project leaflet is now available on the website’s resources page. The leaflet along with other project resources including the Best Practice Guide and Executive Summary will be circulated to Central Authorities across the EU and brought to the attention of other relevant stakeholders.

Published on 4th March 2021

UK Training Workshops delivered

Dr Katarina Trimmings and Dr Onyoja Momoh organised and delivered training at the UK POAM Training workshops on 15 and 17 December 2020. The workshop was based on the POAM Best Practice Guide on the protection of abducting mothers in return proceedings involving allegations of domestic violence. This was the

Published on 19th December 2020

Second German Training Workshop

The second German training session took place online via AdobeConnect on Friday, 27 November 2020. The training was integrated into the annual conference for family law organised by the German Lawyers Association. Therefore over a hundred participants attended the training session. The aim of the workshop was to train key

Published on 19th December 2020

Best Practice Guide published today

The POAM Team are very pleased to announce a major milestone in the project as the POAM Best Practice Guide is officially published today and is now available. The Best Practice Guide on the protection of abducting mothers in return proceedings involving allegations of domestic violence was prepared under the

Published on 3rd November 2020

First German Training Workshop

The first German training workshop took place successfully online via Zoom on Friday, 18 September 2020. 32 participants registered and attended the training session. The majority of the participants were judges and lawyers dealing primarily with child abduction cases, as well as social workers. The aim of the workshop was

Published on 7th October 2020

POAM Project Video

The POAM Team are very pleased to announce that the project video is now available on the website’s resources page. The creation of the project video was headed by the Croatian partner in consultation with the other consortium members. It is hoped that the video will facilitate public awareness-raising and

Published on 4th August 2020

Project Management & Co-ordination Meeting No 3

On 28 July 2020, Dr Katarina Trimmings and Dr Onyoja Momoh organised the third Project Management and Co-ordination Meeting for the POAM project. The meeting was held on the Collaborate virtual platform and brought together the project research partners from the UK, Croatia, Germany and Italy, as well at the

Published on 30th July 2020

International Experts Workshop

A virtual platform success: On 19 June 2020, the POAM research team hosted the International Experts’ Workshop on 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 but was rescheduled on

Published on 2nd July 2020