The Supreme Court of Pennsylvania’s Appellate Court Procedural Rules Committee has been keeping busy recently, proposing two significant changes to the state rules of appellate procedure that are currently at the notice-and-comment stage of the rulemaking process. The rule changes address two aspects of Pennsylvania appellate practice that this monthly appellate column has regularly discussed in the past.
The first rule change, which is in the second round of the notice-and-comment process, would eliminate waiver where a party’s deficient (Pa. R. App. P. 1925(b)) statement of errors complained of on appeal does not “interfere with or effectively preclude” appellate review.
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