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I'll be honest. I'm entirely relaxed about high court fees in civil litigation claims. I very occasionally have to sue a client for my fees and I always start with a letter before action that says unless I am paid £X on or before [date] I shall commence legal proceedings without any further warning for the recovery of the debt plus costs plus interest. If there is one item that is always recoverable if you have a half reasonable case, it is the court fees. Ditto I would have thought for employment tribunal fees. For the avoidance of doubt, this does not apply to district probate registry fees. Yes, I think that the courts need to be as near to self financing as is reasonably possible, but that does include going off at a tangent and nailing users of district probate registries.