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With regard to anonymous 1313's point, I agree that legal fees would be expensive as the government would fight on principle. But you only need to have a well-chosen set of test cases to be able to achieve a reasonable degree of certainty of outcome, and after that there is bound to be a settlement scheme, or at least some room for costs management.
I don't see this as either paradoxical or contradictory. Indeed it segues into the governments own narrative about the courts being a commodity. If so, then denial of lawful access to that commodity must have some value. How you place that value remains to be seen.
And yes, I do see this as having wider implications; but not the death knell of court fees that are proportionate to the value of the claim and within reach of all claimants. However I also bear in mind the unique and long-recognised inequality that exists between master and servant. These fees sought to neutralise the law that imposed a degree of equality and so were particularly nasty.

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