Practitioners seeking interlocutory appeals in criminal matters in Victoria should note that the Court of Appeal will apply House v The King principles with considerable deference to the trial judge's refusal to certify, and that the inability to cross-examine a hearsay declarant excused under s 18 does not, without more, require exclusion under s 137 or the Haddara discretion.
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