 However, as it was seen to be desirable that Crown contractors could obtain redress, they would otherwise be inhibited from taking on such work, so a petition of right came to be used in such situations, especially after the Petitions of Right Act 1860 simplified the process.Before the petition could be heard by the courts, it had to be endorsed with the words "fiat justitia" on the advice of the Home Secretary and Attorney-General.Similarly, the Crown could not be sued in tort.