Accused navy spy's preliminary hearing set

A Canadian navy intelligence officer accused of spying will have a preliminary hearing this fall in Halifax.

Sub.-Lt. Jeffrey Paul Delisle, posted to the security unit HMCS Trinity, is charged with passing on secret information to a foreign country or entity.

The preliminary hearingwill be held on Oct. 10 and 12,and a trialis expected to last about three weeks,depending on the availability of the judge.

Mike Taylor, Delisle's lawyer,says his clientfaces a mountain of challenges.

"I expect there will be pre-trial applications with respect to what can be public and what can't. The jury is obviously going to have to be given, I would assume, additional cautions with respect to sensitive material they might hear," Taylor said. "There are going to be some challenges, there's no question about that."