Legal Dictionary of Pakistan

anomalous jurisdiction rule

the principle that a court of appeals has provisional jurisdiction to review the denial of a motion to intervene in a case, and if the court of appeals finds that the denial was correct, then its jurisdiction disappears - and it must dismiss the appeal for want of jurisdiction -because an order denying a motion to intervene is not a final, appealable order. ( this rule has been criticized by courts and commentators. many appellate courts, upon finding that the trial court properly denied a motion to intervene, will affirm the denial instead of dismissing the appeal for want of jurisdiction. - also termed anomalous rule.