The Court of Appeal of Alberta Criminal Appeal Rules — 16.19
Other appeal documents 16.19 (1) Where needed to resolve the issues in the appeal, each party must file Extracts of Key Evidence (a) containing extracts of the transcripts, exhibits and other material on the record needed to resolve the issues in the appeal, (b) excluding any evidence, exhibits and other materials unlikely to be needed, and (c) not containing any comment, argument, trial briefs, legal authorities or new evidence. (2) Extracts of Key Evidence must be prepared as required by rule 16.37 [ Requirements for all documents ] and (a) have a table of contents at the beginning of every volume, listing separately each document, including each exhibit to any affidavit, and showing the page number where the document can be found; (b) be numbered sequentially throughout, commencing with (i) page A1 for the appellant’s Extracts of Key Evidence, (ii) page R1 for the respondent’s Extracts of Key Evidence, and (iii) page I1 for the intervenor’s Extracts of Key Evidence; (c) have cardstock covers, front and back, in the following colours: (i) appellants – yellow; (ii) respondents – pink; (iii) intervenors – blue. (3) Each party to any appeal shall prepare, if necessary, a Book of Authorities (a) containing extracts of any enactments or bylaws necessary for deciding the appeal, (b) including the headnote and relevant pages (or, only when appropriate, the entirety) of any authority likely to be referred to during oral argument or essential to the disposition of the appeal, and (c) excluding well-known authorities, authorities of secondary importance and other non-essential authorities not likely to be referred to during oral argument. (4) Books of Authorities must be prepared as required by rule 16.37 [ Requirements for all documents ] and (a) have a comprehensive Table of Authorities as required by subparagraph 16.17(1)(h), reproduced at the beginning of every volume, (b) separate or identify each authority, by tabs or otherwise, and highlight or otherwise identify in legible form the key passages in the authority to be relied on, (c) where the authority has been reproduced from an electronic source, contain paragraph or page numbers from an official or printed source, or otherwise identify the various parts of the authority, and (d) have cardstock covers, front and back, in the same colour as the party’s factum. (5) If any document required by rule 16.13 [ Contents of Appeal Record – conviction appeals ] or 16.14 [ Contents of Appeal Record – sentence appeals ] is not available at the time of preparation of the Appeal Record, a copy must be included in the Extracts of Key Evidence or appended to the factum. (6) A party preparing Extracts of Key Evidence or Books of Authorities must file 5 copies with the Registrar, when or before filing that party’s factum, and must file and serve one additional copy on every other party to the appeal. (7) The clerk of a trial court must, on request of the Attorney General or counsel for the Attorney General, supply certified copies of any exhibits or records in the clerk’s possession that are required for an appeal. (8) On request of the Court, the trial judge must provide a report on any matter related to the case.