Why Sensitive Legal Language Matters
This opinion was published in The Hindu on October 23, 2026.
About the Authors
Priyamvadha Shivaji (Senior Resident Fellow)
Priyamvadha is a Senior Resident Fellow with the Justice, Access and Lowering Delays in India (JALDI) team at Vidhi. Her areas of interest include judicial reforms, constitutional law, and women's rights. At JALDI, her work primarily focuses on ensuring user-friendly, universally accessible, and efficient justice systems at all levels of the Indian judiciary. She graduated with a B.A. LL.B. (Hons.) from NALSAR University of Law, Hyderabad in 2020 and obtained the BCL from the University of Oxford in 2021. She has previously provided research assistance on independent projects. She enjoys reading, writing speculative fiction and poetry, quizzing, and learning new languages.