The Solicitor-General can ask the Supreme Court to look at a question of law. You need to know that this can happen if a question came up during someone's first appeal against a conviction or sentence. The Solicitor-General must get permission from the Supreme Court to do this.

The question must have come from a case where the Court of Appeal made a decision and the prosecutor cannot appeal that decision. This means the Court of Appeal was the first court to hear the appeal and it made a decision in favour of the defendant. The prosecutor does not have the right to appeal the Court of Appeal's decision.