An appellate court should exercise caution in granting leave to appeal from a single judge's refusal of leave to appeal, but where the refusal brings the substantive proceedings to an end, the determinative consideration is the strength of any argument identifying error in the primary judgment. An appeal from an interlocutory decision filed without leave is incompetent and will be struck out.
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