Anglo American Platinum fired 12,000 striking miners

[Tiberius]

Why do we need an extra court for this, especially if it's open and shut? Not looking to create more bureaucracy are we?

No, but clearly a single court for handling these cases would be better, since cases could be sorted out quickly. The last thing that should happen is a case being delayed due to the lack of a judge or a backlog of cases.

In the interim, what are the plaintiffs to do (their incomes have been illegally curtailed, is the defendant culpable for these damages as well?)

Ideally, this would be a quick case to solve, but yes, of course if the company went back on the workers' contracts, then the company owes them their salaries as well as expenses that were accrued as a result of their actions (though a separate review board should have to approve expenses so that people can't try to get the company to pay for obvious luxury items).