Hamilton lawyer Vikram Singh will have his motion to overturn the Hamilton West-Ancaster-Dundas provincial Tory nomination result heard during the week of Aug. 8.

Ontario Superior Court judge Paul Sweeny on June 20 set a timetable for Singh’s motion to be heard in Hamilton after the Civic Holiday.

Singh’s lawyer argued for an accelerated date for the motion to be heard in July, but Sweeny decided August was soon enough.

“It is important for the matter to be heard expeditiously,” said Sweeny in an oral decision.

Singh, who finished second to Ben Levitt in the Hamilton West-Ancaster-Dundas provincial Tory nomination meeting May 7 at Ancaster High School on the third ballot, has named Tory leader Patrick Brown, party president Rick Dykstra, Tory executive director Bob Stanley, and staffer Logan Bugeja in a suit filed with the Ontario Court of Justice.

He is seeking to quash the June 3 decision by Brown to end his appeal of the nomination process. In his suit, Singh states the Tory executive contravened the party’s constitution. Singh wants the court to declare him the riding nominee for the June 7, 2018 provincial election, or that another nomination meeting be held.

In his claim, which has not been proven in court, Singh states there was a “wrongful insertion of false ballots” during the six-hour-long nomination process and that there were “irregularities” at the credentials desk.

Last week, in an interview, Brown defended the decision by the party to stop all appeals from candidates of nomination meetings.

“We have great candidates nominated in those ridings — Ben Levitt, Karma Macgregor (Ottawa West-Nepean),” he said. “I think they will be terrific MPPs.”

Brown said he decided to hire PricewaterhouseCoopers to oversee the rest of the party’s nominations to make sure there are no further issues.