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A former MP's appeal against his conviction for sexual assault takes place this week.
Charlie Elphicke will have his case heard at the Court of Appeal after he was found guilty on three counts last year and is now in prison.
A court spokesman said: "Mr Elphicke will appeal his conviction on March 3."
The former Dover and Deal MP was found guilty at Southwark Crown Court on July 30 of sexual assault on one woman and two more counts on another.
He was sentenced to two years in prison on September 15.
Elphicke has insisted he is innocent of any criminal wrongdoing and the hearing is scheduled for 10.30am.
The Court of Appeal had received the former Conservative minister's formal application last October.
One charge relates to an incident in 2007 where Elphicke chased a victim around his Westminster home while chanting "I'm a naughty Tory" in a singsong voice.
The woman, who was in her 30s at the time and known to Elphicke, contacted police about the incident in November 2017.
The second complainant, aged in her 20s, was groped by the former MP, who also ran his hand up her leg. The assaults happened during separate incidents in 2016.
The judge branded Elphicke a "sexual predator" who "used his success and respectability as a cover", before handing him his sentence.
Moments later he announced he would appeal the conviction and sentencing.
Elphicke, who turns 50 on March 14, was the Dover constituency MP from 2010 to 2019 and was replaced by his wife Natalie.
He was Lord Commissioner of the Treasury from 2015 to 2016.
