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Rule 83 – Local Court Rules

May 13, 2021 | Civil Procedure, Mississippi

(a) When Permissible. The conference of circuit, chancery and county court judges may hereafter make uniform rules and amendments thereto concerning practice in their respective courts not inconsistent with these rules. Likewise, any court by action of a majority of the judges thereof may hereafter make local rules and amendments thereto concerning practice in their respective courts not inconsistent with these rules. In the event there is no majority, the senior judge shall have an additional vote.
(b) Procedure for Approval. All such local rules and uniform rules adopted before being effective must be filed in the Supreme Court of Mississippi for approval. Such motions shall also include a copy of the motion and of the proposed rules in an electronically formatted medium (such as USB Flash Drive or CD-ROM). Upon receipt of such proposed rules and prior to any approval of the same, the Supreme Court may submit them to the Supreme Court Advisory Committee on Rules for advice as to whether any such rules are consistent or in conflict with these rules or any other rules adopted by the Supreme Court.
(c) Publication. All local and uniform rules hereinafter approved by the Supreme Court shall be submitted for publication in the Southern Reporter (Mississippi cases).

Miss. R. Civ. P. 83

Amended effective March 1, 1989;November 29, 1989;February 1, 1990;March 13, 1991;December 16, 1991; amended March 10, 1994, effective retroactively from and afterJanuary 1, 1993; amended October 13, 1995, effective from and afterApril 14, 1994; amended effective July 1, 2010.

Advisory Committee Historical Note

Rule 83 was amended March 10, 1994, effective retroactively from and after January 1, 1993, by deleting the work “hereinafter” in Rule 83(b) following the words, “uniform rules”; by deleting Rule 83(c)in its entirety; and by renumbering 83(d) as 83(c). 632-635 So. 2d XXXII-XXIV (West Miss. Cases 1994).

Advisory Committee Notes

Practitioners may access local rules that have been approved by the Mississippi Supreme Court on the Court’s website.

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