The problem is that there is no way to make it 'fair'. All the proposed reforms are also incredibly unfair, just in a slightly different way from what we have.
For example, if you remove the power of precedent suddenly knowing and being able to search case law becomes unimportant, giving laymen a huge step up in defending themselves. However it also makes the legal system far more inconsistent across judgements.
Instead laws are poorly written meaning case law becomes the actual law
You tell me how to fix it.
And I'll tell you how a bad actor will abuse your fix.
Of course there are tens of other small improvements that could bring improvements, starting from simplifications of the legal code to small claims courts that would be allowed to punish minor offenses by corporations that are repeated on a systemic scale.
What are the abuses that you see, and most of all, do you think those abuses would be worse that the current abuses?
This also means that the smaller players wood get drained out if they try to abuse the system.
Another thing is that the CEO wild be forced to attend, or have very high costs to not be there. This is too ensure that me, as an individual, have much more to loose personally (and can be exhausted) in front of a corporation who has leaders wise job is to be at the court.
I did not put a lot of thoughts on the ideas, but the basic one is too make everyone suffer the same relatively.
This is partly sourced from Finland roads, where you pay in function of your wealth when you cross the law
Some of the system being like that probably comes partly from the founding idea of "a government of laws and not of men" and the US constitution.
a large company can absolutely drain your small/medium business with frivolous lawsuits.
the point is that Western judicial system largely caters to capital not justice.