Declaratory and prohibitive orders in judicial review proceedings that quash criminal process on procedural grounds (such as invalid extension of a summons) are interlocutory, not final, because they do not determine the substantive rights of the parties in the principal criminal proceeding. The civil standard of proof applies to procedural prerequisites in criminal proceedings, such as whether a mention date was validly extended.
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