Norfolk Circuit Court, Virginia Service and Proof of Service Rules

CRITICAL

Applies to

Exhibit and witness list

Counsel must exchange exhibit and witness lists 15 days before trial.

Counsel will exchange a list of exhibits and witnesses fifteen days before trial.

CRITICAL

Each counsel must deliver the inventory to opposing counsel 15 days before trial or hearing.

Fifteen days before trial or hearing, each counsel (as defined in Rule 2(G)(1)(b)) will deliver to opposing counsel and file with the Clerk, on a form approved by the Court, an inventory of the assets and debts of which his client seeks equitable distribution.

CRITICAL

Applies to

Final order

Service

Email

Final orders are sent to counsel by email.

Final orders are sent to counsel by email

CRITICAL

Counsel must exchange proposed instructions at least two days before trial, but may instead give opposing counsel written notice of the Virginia Model Jury Instruction numbers expected to be used.

Counsel will exchange copies of proposed instructions at least two days before trial. Rather than exchanging actual copies of proposed instructions, counsel may notify opposing counsel in writing of the numbers of the instructions he expects to use from the Virginia Model Jury Instructions;

CRITICAL

Applies to

Proposed jury instructions

Proposed jury instructions must be given to opposing counsel two days before trial.

Proposed jury instructions will be given to opposing counsel two days before trial.

CRITICAL

If a model instruction is changed, or an offered instruction is not in the Virginia Model Jury Instructions, counsel must give opposing counsel a copy.

provided, however, that if any change is made to the model instruction a copy of the instruction to be offered will be given to opposing counsel as well as any other instructions to be offered not contained in the Virginia Model Jury Instructions.

CRITICAL

Applies to

Final order

Service

Mail

Final orders are sent by regular mail to pro se parties and to counsel for whom the Clerk has no email address.

by regular mail to pro se parties and counsel for whom the Clerk has no email address.

CRITICAL

Except in emergencies, counsel requesting a Friday motion hearing must give opposing counsel at least seven days' notice of the motion.

Except as provided in Supreme Court Rule 4:15, any motion to be heard on a Friday will be filed in the Clerk's Office no later than the preceding Friday at noon unless a Judge authorizes a later filing, and, except in emergencies, counsel requesting the hearing will give opposing counsel at least seven days notice of the motion.

INFO

Service

Mail

Self-addressed stamped envelopes are appreciated but are not required.

Self-addressed stamped envelopes are appreciated but not necessary.

INFO

When both parties are self-represented, the docket clerk sets the case for trial and notifies them by mail.

If both parties are proceeding without attorneys, the docket clerk will set their cases for trial and they will be notified by mail.