5. Requirements for Record Preparation

Form: Information on Appeal Procedures for Unlimited Civil Cases (PDF)

Form: Notice Designating Record on Appeal (PDF)

A. Designation of Clerk's Transcript

Within 10 days of the filing of a notice of appeal, the appealing party must serve and file its designation with the superior court.

Appellants choosing to have the superior court prepare the clerk's transcript will elect to proceed under rule 8.122.

Appellants wishing to prepare their own clerk's transcript will elect to proceed under rule 8.124.

This court does not have a local rule that provides for the filing of the record pursuant to rule 8.128.

B. Designation of Reporter's Transcript or Intent to Proceed Without a Reporter's Transcript

Rule 8.130 governs the intent to proceed without a reporter's transcript, request for a reporter's transcript, and the fees associated with the ordering of a reporter's transcript.

C. Exhibits

Although exhibits are deemed part of the clerk's transcript, they are not automatically included or copied in the clerk's transcript. (rule 8.122(a)(3)).

If exhibits have been released to counsel, counsel should transmit those exhibits to the trial court pursuant to rule 8.122(a)(3) or to the Court of Appeal pursuant to rule 8.224(b)(2).

D. Augment to Record on Appeal

See rule 8.155 of the California Rules of Court.