“ Intersectionality is not identity politics on steroids. It’s a lens for seeing how inequalities often operate together and exacerbate each other.”

—Kimberle Crenshaw

Access to justice is the bedrock of constitutional democracy. It is imperative, therefore, that no stone is left unturned by a State in its attempts at ensuring equal access to justice for its citizens. The exclusion of a citizen from access to justice can result from either of two situations: (i) a perceived inefficiency of the country's legal system, or (ii) an inadequate comprehension by the country's judiciary of the true scope and ambit of the legal concepts enshrined in its Constitution. The former is a systemic defect that is addressed, inter alia, by increasing the judge-to-population ratio, infusing the required

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