When must the BC appeal book of transcripts be filed and served?

The appellant must file and serve a book of transcripts not more than 60 days after filing the notice of appeal, or after leave is granted if leave is required.

Responsible actor. The appellant preparing the book of transcripts.

The ordinary transcript clock shares the appeal record’s event branches. Identify required testimony and other necessary transcripts, the permitted preparation route and any actual dispensation.

The parties agree to omit a portion of the transcript. Rule 24(6) permits exclusion of that portion by agreement. It does not itself replace the sixty-day filing-and-service period.

The ordinary transcript clock shares the appeal record’s event branches. Identify required testimony and other necessary transcripts, the permitted preparation route and any actual dispensation.

1. The appellant preparing the book of transcripts first identifies the operative event named in r 24.
2. Rule 24 uses sixty calendar days after the actual notice filing or required leave grant. Ordering transcripts, agreeing to exclude portions and receiving the completed book do not reset that event. Interpretation Act section 25.2(2)(a) excludes the event day.
3. The party checks the actual granted order and the required filing or service evidence before relying on the ordinary book of transcripts branch.

Rule 24 uses sixty calendar days after the actual notice filing or required leave grant. Ordering transcripts, agreeing to exclude portions and receiving the completed book do not reset that event. Interpretation Act section 25.2(2)(a) excludes the event day.

For book of transcripts, Rule 2 extends a time for doing the act that falls or expires on a nonbusiness day to the next business day, using the actual registry-opening definition and registrar directions in Rules 1 and 83. Verify an unusual local closure separately.

Fictitious example

Filing the notice of appeal, or granting leave if leave is required is established as Monday, July 6, 2026. The ordinary book of transcripts branch applies. Fictitious qualifying facts. The final registry day is open, both required acts are completed by their effective boundary, no other enactment or direction changes the period, and no extension is inferred.

Fictitious established facts. These examples do not establish eligibility, effective service, relief or a direction.

What transcript material ordinarily belongs in the book?

Rule 24(3) requires all oral testimony, if any, and other transcripts necessary to resolve the appeal issues, unless a justice or registrar orders otherwise.

Who may prepare transcripts filed in the BC Court of Appeal?

Rule 24(4) specifies a person with the government transcript-services agreement, or an employee or retained provider of that person, and requires compliance with completion instructions.

May the registrar dispense with the transcript preparation requirement?

Rule 24(5) permits the registrar to dispense with a requirement under subrule (4). Establish the actual dispensation rather than inferring it from an upload being accepted.

Actual filing and effective service for book of transcripts

Book of transcripts requires identifying accepted filing and effective service separately. Rule 83 applies a 4 p.m. filing boundary, and Rule 4(3) applies the email or fax service boundary.

• The ordinary transcript clock shares the appeal record’s event branches. Identify required testimony and other necessary transcripts, the permitted preparation route and any actual dispensation.
• A transcript book preserves proceedings below. The appeal record, appeal book of evidence and optional condensed extracts have different content and filing requirements.

• Book of transcripts uses the correct form, contents and completion instructions identified in the operative rule.
• The actual event for book of transcripts is documented; anticipated service, an expected order or an offered hearing is not assumed complete.
• Book of transcripts requires accepted filing under Rule 83(3)–(4) and separate effective service under Rule 4(3). The filing receipt must establish submission by 4 p.m. on an actual business day; otherwise the deemed filing moves to the next business day.
• Book of transcripts requires accepted filing under Rule 83(3)–(4) and separate effective service under Rule 4(3). The filing receipt must establish submission by 4 p.m. on an actual business day; otherwise the deemed filing moves to the next business day.