The Magistrate’s Association’s response to the consultation on reforming the legal aid barrister fee scheme is a model of brevity – just as we have come to expect from Magistrates. Answers on one side of A4 please. I’m always up for a challenge though, so I’ve (just) managed to condense this even further: ‘lawyers are important to the workings of the mags, lots of changes already going on which should save costs anyway – wait and see how they go before introducing more reform’.