Felicity Kaganas: asking the woman question in family law

This contribution to the special issue considers Felicity Kaganas as a feminist socio-legal scholar who persistently ‘asked the woman question’ in family law. It focuses on one of her important articles, ‘When it comes to contact disputes, what are family courts for?’. After summarising her argument concerning the evolution of the family courts’ approach to contact disputes, it examines her critique of a problem-solving approach, in light of the recent introduction of the Pathfinder pilot courts, following the recommendations of the Ministry of Justice report, Assessing risk of harm to children and parents in private law children cases (2020).