Coun. Brian Skakun has a new court date.
On April 24, the province's highest court will come to Prince George to hear the appeal of the city councillor's conviction for violating the Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act.
Last spring, Skakun was granted leave to appeal the 2011 decision stemming from leaking a report on the work environment at the Prince George RCMP detachments to a local media outlet.
Justice Kathryn Neilson found the trial judge may have erred in law in finding that a municipal councillor is an officer of a public body under the provincial privacy legislation, a conclusion that a Supreme Court Justice also supported in 2012.
The B.C. Court of Appeal typically sits in Vancouver and occasionally in Victoria, Kamloops and Kelowna. It has only sat in Prince George to hear a handful of past cases, with the last in the spring of 2011.
