Rule 327 Notice of Filing Record

(Revised July 1, 1985) This rule requires that upon filing the record on appeal in the reviewing court the appellant shall serve notice of the filing on the other parties to the appeal and send a copy of the notice to the reviewing court. This notice is important because the briefing schedule is framed in terms of the due date of the briefs rather than the date of service of each successive brief, and the due date of the first brief is marked in terms of the date on which the record is filed. Until 1979, it was provided in this rule that after the filing of the record and the payment of the prescribed fee the case should be docketed and that the notice include the docket number. These provisions were eliminated in that year because of the provision in amended Rule 303(f) for the docketing of the appeal at an earlier stage of the proceedings. (See the committee comments to Rule 303(f).) Notice of the docket number is no longer required because it will appear on the docketing statement served under Rule 303(g). The 1985 change is intended to make the automated record-keeping system in the appellate and supreme courts operate more smoothly. (December 17, 1993) This amendment simplifies and clarifies the notification process by requiring the clerk of the reviewing court to give notice of the filing of the record on appeal or certificate in lieu of record to all parties.