Rule 25. The appendix to the briefs.
     (a) Use of an appendix. At the time before final decision, the supreme court may order an appendix to any brief. Also, either the appellant or respondent may, if the appellant or respondent deems it desirable, prepare, file and serve with the brief an appendix.
     (b) Contents of the appendix. Unless otherwise ordered by the supreme court, an appendix shall contain: (1) the relevant docket entries in the proceeding below; (2) any relevant pleading and relevant given or refused jury instruction, finding and opinion; (3) the judgment, order, findings of fact, conclusions of law, or decision in question, together with the memorandum opinion, if any, in support thereof; and (4) such other parts of the record as any party deems it essential for the judges of the court to read in order to decide the issues presented. In designating parts of the record for inclusion in the appendix, the parties shall have regard for the fact that the entire record is always available to the court for reference or examination and shall not engage in unnecessary designation.
     (c) Arrangement of the appendix. At the beginning of the appendix there shall appear a chronological list of the parts of the record which it contains. Each part of the record shall be listed by the descriptive title given to that part by the reference made to it in the briefs. The page or pages of the appendix at which each part of the record thus listed appears shall be set out opposite each listing in a column at the right, so as to permit immediate location in the appendix of the parts of the record referred to in the briefs and contained in the appendix.
     The relevant docket entries in the proceeding below shall follow the list of contents. Thereafter, the parts of the record shall be set out in chronological order. The original paging of each part of the record set out in the appendix shall be indicated by placing in brackets the number of the original page at the place where that page begins. Omissions in the text of papers or of testimony must be indicated by asterisks. A question and its answer may be contained in a single paragraph.
     (d) Reproduction of exhibits. Exhibits may be contained in a separate volume, suitably indexed.

     History: En. Sup. Ct. Ord. 11020, Dec. 10, 1965, eff. Jan. 1, 1966; amd. Sup. Ct. Ord. June 16, 1986, eff. Jan. 19, 1987; amd. Sup. Ct. Ord. May 1, 1990, eff. May 1, 1990.