Preservation of Errors for Appeal
Richmond senior counsel George Somerville’s article – “ Preservation of Errors for Appeal” – was published in the Winter 2014-2015 edition of the Journal of Civil Litigation.
The article discusses the tangled web of rules and exceptions governing preservation of error for appeal, focusing on practice in the Supreme Court and Court of Appeals of Virginia. In two parts, it addresses preservation both at trial and in assignments of error on appeal.