Tennessee Rules of Appellate Procedure

The Tennessee Rules of Court are provided to the 
Tennessee Administrative Office of the Courts
for use on this web site by Lexis Law Publishing.

These rules are current as of   Last updated 7/1/2009 3:00:27 PM

Please Note: On May 17, 2005, the Tennessee Supreme Court filed an order revising the Advisory Commission Comments to these Rules, deleting obsolete material. For the Comments in effect prior to May 17, 2005, Refer to the Archived Rules.

Article A. Applicability of Rules

1. Scope and Construction of Rules
2. Suspension of Rules

Article B. Appeal as of Right

3. Appeal as of Right: Availability; Method of Initiation
4. Appeal as of Right: Time for Filing Notice of Appeal
5. Appeal as of Right: Service of Notice of Appeal; Docketing of the Appeal
6. Security for Costs on Appeal
7. Stay or Injunction Pending Appeal
8. Release in Criminal Cases
   
   8A Appeal as of Right in Termination of Parental Rights Cases

Article C. Appeal by Permission

9. Interlocutory Appeal by Permission from the Trial Court
10. Extraordinary Appeal by Permission on Original Application in the Appellate Courts
11. Appeal by Permission from Appellate Court to Supreme Court

Article D. Direct Review of Administrative Proceedings

12. Direct Review of Administrative Proceedings by the Court of Appeals

Article E. Practice on Appeal

13. Scope of Review
14. Consideration of Post-Judgment Facts in the Appellate Court
15. Voluntary Dismissal
16. Joint and Consolidated Appeals
17. Transfer of Cases Appealed to the Wrong Court
18. Appeals by Poor Persons
19. Substitution, Addition and Dropping of Parties
20. Filing and Service of Papers
    20A - Facsimile Filing
21. Computation and Extension of Time
22. Motions
23. Duty of Clerk to Give Notice of Filed Orders

Article F. The Record on Appeal

24. Content and Preparation of the Record
25. Completion and Transmission of the Record
26. Filing of the Record

Article G. Briefs

27. Content of Briefs
28. Optional Appendix to the Briefs
29. Filing and Service of Briefs
30. Form of Briefs and Other Papers
31. Brief and Oral Argument of an Amicus Curiae
32. Notice to Attorney General When validity of Statute, Rule or Regulation is Questioned

Article H. Hearing of Appeals

33. Prehearing Conference
34. Reserved
35. Conduct of Oral Argument

Article I. Disposition of Appeals

36. Relief; Effect of Error
37. Reserved
38. Entry of Judgment; Copies of Opinion and Judgment
39. Rehearing
40. Costs
41. Interest on Judgments
42. Issuance, Stay, and Recall of Mandates Form the Appellate Court
43. Filing of Mandate in the Trial Court and Proceedings Thereafter
44. Process in the Appellate Court

Article J. rules by the Intermediate Appellate Courts

45. Rules by the Court of Appeals and Court of Criminal Appeals
46. Reserved

Article K. Title; Forms; Effective Date

47. Title
48. Forms
49. Effective Date

Appendix - Forms
Notice of Appeal 
Petition by Direct Appellate Review of Administrative Proceedings