Samenvatting

The injustice that resulted from the implementation of the child care benefit in the Netherlands could continue for years without sufficiently considering the voices of the victims of the harsh action by the tax authorities. In this essay, it is argued that critical empirical legal research in which we dare to question our own truths can make an important contribution to preventing or timely countering excesses such as this. I outline the contours of a research methodology for critical empirical legal research, which is based on a post-structuralist ontology and epistemology.