                                 CODE OF VIRGINIA

(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 (§ 17.1-403)

The Supreme Court shall prescribe and publish the initial rules governing
practice, procedure, and internal processes for the Court of Appeals designed to
achieve the just, speedy, and inexpensive disposition of all litigation in that
court consistent with the ends of justice and to maintain uniformity in the law
of the Commonwealth. Before amending the rules thereafter, the Supreme Court
shall receive and consider recommendations from the Court of Appeals. The rules
shall prescribe procedures (i) authorizing the Court of Appeals to prescribe
truncated record or appendix preparation and (ii) permitting the Court of
Appeals to dispense with oral argument if the parties agree that oral argument
is not necessary or if the panel has examined the briefs and record and
unanimously agrees that oral argument is unnecessary because (a) the appeal is
wholly without merit or (b) the dispositive issue or issues have been
authoritatively decided, and the appellant has not argued that the case law
should be overturned, extended, modified, or reversed.

HISTORY: 1983, c. 413, § 17-116.03; 1984, cc. 632, 701; 1998, c. 872; 2021, Sp.
Sess. I, c. 489; 2022, c. 714; 2025, c. 612.