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<law><site_title>Virginia Decoded</site_title><site_url>https://vacode.org</site_url><law_id>55346</law_id><section_number>17.1-403</section_number><catch_line>(For contingent effective date, see Acts 2025, c. 612, cl. 2) Rules of practice, procedure, and internal processes; promulgation by Supreme Court; amendments; summary disposition of appeals</catch_line><edition url="https://vacode.org/2025/" slug="2025" current="TRUE" last_updated="">2025</edition><referred_to_by><reference>17.1-413</reference></referred_to_by><structure><unit label="title" level="1" order_by="1" identifier="17.1">Courts of Record</unit><unit label="chapter" level="2" order_by="1" identifier="4">The Court of Appeals</unit></structure><text>
						<section><p>The Supreme <span class="dictionary">Court</span> shall prescribe and publish the initial rules governing practice, procedure, and internal processes for the <span class="dictionary">Court</span> of <span class="dictionary">Appeals</span> designed to achieve the just, speedy, and inexpensive <span class="dictionary">disposition</span> of all <span class="dictionary">litigation</span> in that <span class="dictionary">court</span> consistent with the ends of justice and to maintain uniformity in the law of the Commonwealth. Before amending the rules thereafter, the Supreme <span class="dictionary">Court</span> shall receive and consider recommendations from the <span class="dictionary">Court</span> of <span class="dictionary">Appeals</span>. The rules shall prescribe procedures (i) authorizing the <span class="dictionary">Court</span> of <span class="dictionary">Appeals</span> to prescribe truncated record or appendix preparation and (ii) permitting the <span class="dictionary">Court</span> of <span class="dictionary">Appeals</span> to dispense with <span class="dictionary">oral argument</span> if the parties agree that <span class="dictionary">oral argument</span> is not necessary or if the <span class="dictionary">panel</span> has examined the <span class="dictionary">briefs</span> and record and unanimously agrees that <span class="dictionary">oral argument</span> is unnecessary because (a) the <span class="dictionary">appeal</span> is wholly without merit or (b) the dispositive <span class="dictionary">issue</span> or <span class="dictionary">issues</span> have been authoritatively decided, and the <span class="dictionary">appellant</span> has not argued that the <span class="dictionary">case law</span> should be overturned, extended, modified, or reversed.</p></section></text><history>1983, c. 413, &#xA7; 17-116.03; 1984, cc. 632, 701; 1998, c. 872; 2021, Sp. Sess. I, c. 489; 2022, c. 714; 2025, c. 612.</history><metadata></metadata></law>
