Chief Justice of India P Sathasivam has called for easy access to court by common people. the judiciary should also ensure early finality of dispensation of justice to uphold its credibility.” Inaugurating the additional building of the state High Court in Guwahati today, he said Judiciary is the country's most respectable institution and its credibility must be cherished. But in recent times, he said, there has been a steady decline, which must be arrested. This will help to uphold the high esteem and the faith that the common people repose in will not be affected.

He pointed out that an active judiciary with a diligent and intelligent judges may not be enough but sometimes they have to become “activist judges and go beyond and behind the letter of the rule and identify the principle that guides the law. Activism, he said, is not the exclusive domain of judges of Supreme Court and High Court judges but even those in the subordinate courts should practice this when the situation arises.