(a) Except as provided in Rule 8:8(F) and Rule 8:8A, and Rule 1:17 pertaining to Electronically Filed Cases,
(1) All pleadings, motions, briefs and all other documents filed in any clerk’s office in any proceeding pursuant to the Rules or statutes must be 8-1/2 by 11 inches in size. All typed material must be double spaced except for quotations.(2) Subdivision (a)(1) of this Rule must not apply to tables, charts, plats, photographs, and other material that cannot be reasonably reproduced on paper of that size.(b) No paper will be refused for failure to comply with the provisions of this Rule, but the clerk or judge may require that the paper be redone in compliance with this Rule and substituted for the paper initially filed. Counsel must certify that the substituted paper is identical in content to the paper initially filed.
Va. Sup. Ct. 8:7
Amended by order dated March 1, 2011, effective May 2, 2011; amended by order dated March 1, 2016, effective immediately; amended by order dated September 3, 2020, effective September 3, 2020; amended by order dated November 23, 2020, effective March 1, 2021.
