ORDER XVIII

1THE SUPREME COURT RULES, 1978 1THE SUPREME COURT RULES, 1978. PART II APPELLATE JURISDICTION ORDER XVIII LODGING OF CONCISE STATEMENT AND SUPPLEMENTAL PROCEEDINGS. 1. The appellant shall lodge in the Registry three copies of a concise statement of the facts of the case and of the arguments upon which he proposes to rely within thirty days of the completion of the record intimated by the Registrar under Order XIV. 2. The respondent shall file in the Registry, within thirty days of the completion of the record intimated by the Registrar under Order XIV, three copies of a concise statement of such facts of the case as he deems material and of the arguments on which he proposes to rely at the hearing. 3. No party to an appeal shall be entitled to be heard by the Court unless he has previously lodged his concise statement: Provided that where a respondent who has entered an appearance does not desire to lodge his concise statement in the appeal, he may give the Registrar notice in writing of his intention not to lodge any concise statement while reserving his right to address the Court on the question of costs. 4. Two or more respondents may, at their own risk as to costs, file separate concise statements in the same appeal. 5 Each party shall, after filing his concise statement, forthwith give notice thereof to the other party, and shall thereafter be entitled to receive two copies of the concise statement filed by the opposite party on his applying therefor. 6. The concise statement shall consist of paragraphs numbered consecutively and shall state, as precisely as possible, in chronological order, the principal steps in the proceedings leading up to the appeal from the commencement thereof down to the admission of the appeal, and, thereafter, the contentions to be urged by the party filing the same, and the reasons, therefor, and shall be neatly typed with quarter margin on one side of standard petition paper of the same size as the Court record, references by page and line to the relevant portions of record as typed or cyclostyled shall be, as far as practicable, be typed in the margin, and care shall be taken to avoid, as far as possible, the reproducing in the concise statement of long extracts from the record. The counsel preparing the concise statements shall also cite all previous decisions of this Court and the Supreme Court of Pakistan to the best of their knowledge bearing on the questions proposed to be raised in the appeal. The Taxing Officer in taxing the cost of the appeal shall, either of his own motion or at the instance of the opposite party, enquire into any unnecessary prolixity in the concise statement, and may disallow the costs occasioned thereby.