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The point you miss Edgar is that civil litigation has always paid its own way through the court fees charged to litigants. It didn't cost the tax payer a penny - even before the fee raises it brought in a surplus over and above its running costs.

The government has increased the fees civil litigants pay explicitly in order that civil litigants subsidise the cost of the rest of the court system as a whole.

Why should civil litigants, (who generally would rather not find themselves in contentious litigation, be they claimant or defendant), be expected to part-fund, say, magistrates or crown courts? They are a fundamental organ of the state and should be funded by direct taxation.

Civil litigation is at best a distress purchase - it should not be seen as a cash cow to bail the tax payer out of having to properly fund one of the three fundamental branches of government.