That’s what I thought, until the money came in - and they’d paid me what appeared to be the “gross” difference rather than the “Net” difference. Perhaps my employer “misunderstood the question” and put down a wrongly-calculated amount? In any case, my claim still came in under the “Cap” so I was never aware OF such a cap.
Another thing to take note of when it comes to “reimbursing unpaid wages” - is that the amount paid by the court does NOT appear on the “taxable year to date” figure (or at least it didn’t when I got it)
This means that if you got involved in a long-winded case, the taxable wage on one’s normal job payslip would fall to such an extent - that In-Work Benefits might then become available…
Imagine a £24k salary dropping to £14k on paper - because you’ve sitting on a year-long fraud case for instance… You have that missing £10k made up, but the £14k now entitles a family man with the provberbial 2.4 kids under 16 to over £100 a week in (also non-taxed) Tax credit money.
“What you gain” financially is as important as “What you don’t lose”. The same applies to savings interest rates of course… People don’t realize right now that any money returning less than the rate of inflation right now - is money they are PAYING the bank to keep safe for them. Daft concept, now that banks are no longer safe and all… People still do it though, because they perceive 0.25% interest as a POSITIVE number still, and assume the risk of loss is “nil” because of the government’s so-called Guarantees… Which won’t be anything of the sort, if multiple banks fail at once.
Like the Westminster Gravy Train then - the Judicial system burns money. Make sure you’re getting warm by the fire whilst it lasts. We can’t stop the waste, but at least we can all “Keep Warm” so to speak. 
Much of the new money borrowed by our governments each and every month - gets spent on the judiciary. If Jury trials eventually got done away with, and the public “forced” to do their public duty instead of “got well-compensated for it” - then the time might yet come when a progressive government can hack and ■■■■■ in the judiciary the same as they do in the NHS. It won’t work of course, because if you employ one pen-pusher on £100k, cut one doctor on £70k and one nurse on £30k - then try and get those actual medical staff to work 80 hours for “no extra”… The money still gets wasted, morale still goes down the pan, etc. The “Cull” when it comes - should be starting with the people that get paid the most for doing the least. Public Well-Being cannot be too expensive, so any caps should be lifted upon what any member of the public gets. It’s the faceless overpaid lefties running the show that need to be “cut out of the system” (Both NHS and Judiciary), that they represent and all. 
I didn’t have the option of “driving myself” to court, because the car parks cost a fortune, and they were not reimbursing for that. “Lunch in the local eateries” I tried on the first day… Got told at multiple shops “Sorry bud, no ticket roll”, to which I refused point blank to eat in an overpriced establishment - if I wasn’t going to get compensated on the basis of “no receipt”… The fact that multiple outlets seemed “incapable of providing receipts” came across like a Conspiracy against the public to someone like moi of course! So… on that first day I waited until court had finished for the day (just after four, as you say) and then got a burger some distance away from the court, and dealt with it like that. No problems getting receipts from THAT far away! The court was near to the train station though, so taking the train seemed the obvious thing to do for the 8 days out of 2x5 that I eventually ended up attending…
