Focus is the Legal Services Commission's newsletter. It is produced approximately four times a year and contains important information, guidance material and legal updates. Focus is not strictly quarterly, as it is produced whenever we need to communicate information to the profession, rather than according to a rigid timetable. Copies are sent automatically to all account holders.

Focus contains:

• News about recent events, decisions, announcements and initiatives

• Invitations to participate in the projects and consultations that will help to shape the future of legal funding

• Timetables of all the key dates and deadlines for consultations, franchising and contracting

• Updates on ongoing pilots, projects and systems
  

• New eligibility rates every spring and updates on remuneration
  

• Points of principle - summaries of important decisions made by the costs appeals committee

• Guidance - a summary of the latest changes

• Payment dates

It is important that all staff who do publicly funded legal work read Focus. Legal funding is undergoing a period of fundamental reform. At this time of change Focus is essential in order to understand the operation of the reformed scheme and the implications of the initiatives for the future.

The index to focus contains an alphabetical listing by subject of all articles published in Focus since issue 1 in Spring 1991. Copies of past issues of Focus from number 26 are available on this site in PDF format . For older issues or to obtain hard copies please contact the Legal Services Commission's Press Office at 85 Gray's Inn Road, London WC1X 8TX, DX 450 London, or telephone 020 7759 0492 or e-mail lucy.dodsworth@legalservices.gov.uk.