A trial judge's ruling upholding a no case to answer submission and proposing to direct the jury to acquit is not an 'interlocutory judgment or order' within s 5F(2) of the Criminal Appeal Act 1912, and the Crown cannot appeal such a ruling to the Court of Criminal Appeal. The fundamental principle that the Crown has no right of appeal against acquittal requires clear and unambiguous statutory language to modify, and s 5F(2) does not provide such language.
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