Britain and Northampton hooker Dylan Hartley's Rugby Football Union disciplinary hearing will happen in London on Tuesday.
Northampton are situated to rise a hearty resistance of their skipper after he was sent off for elbowing Leicester focus Matt Smith in the face at Franklin's Gardens two days back.
Hartley could miss at any rate begin of England's Six Nations fight emulating the most recent scene in a profession scarred by rehashed disciplinary scenes.
RFU said in his statement that Dylan Hartley will have their RFU disciplinary legal officer on Tuesday, December 23, 2014
"Hartley was sent off in the Aviva Premiership match between Northampton Saints and Leicester Tigers for hitting Matt Smith with his elbow, in spite of Law 10.4(a).
"The case will be heard tomorrow evening in London by Jeremy Summers sitting as a sole legal officer at once to be affirmed."
Hartley's sending-off happened after only 17 minutes of the east midlands derby that Northampton won 23-19.
Ref J P Doyle at first appeared cheerful to recompense Hartley a yellow card, however TV match official Sean Davey urged Doyle to watch further replays, and he reacted by send off Hartley.
"It was frustrating," Northampton rugby Chief Jim Mallinder said after the diversion.
"Dylan has got to hold his arms down, yet he was generally held and I don't know there was any malignance in it.
"The way of the diversion didn't legitimize a red card. I think Smith went down pretty effortlessly, in all honesty, which was disillusioning.
"It is an extreme diversion. That 80 minutes of rugby was hard, physical with some incredible handles, however I don't think there was any noxiousness in that. I think JP's starting response of the yellow card would have been the right choice."
In 2007 Hartley was given a 26-week boycott for eye-gouging, and he was hit with a 11-week suspension for verbally misusing official Wayne Barnes amid the 2013 Aviva Premiership last against Leicester.
Britain open their Six Nations battle against Wales in Cardiff on February 6 and given Hartley's poor record - gnawing and punching offenses additionally show up on his charge-sheet - an alternate extensive suspension is a different probability.
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