appeal against possible extradition to Croatia to face war-crimes charges, Reuters reported on Wednesday.
Australian High Court judge William Gummow set April 13 as the day for Dragan Vasiljkovic, also known as Captain Dragan, to put his case to the court's full bench of seven judges, Reuters said.
If the High Court decides that he should be extradited, his case will be returned to the New South Wales local court. If the court rules that he should be extradited, Australian Justice Minister Chris Ellison will decide whether to send him to Croatia to face trial, the agency said.
The 51-year-old Vasiljkovic had also asked the High Court to grant him damages over his arrest, but Gummow on Wednesday ruled the High Court would not consider his damages claim.
The former commander of Serb paramilitary units in Croatia, who now holds Australian citizenship, was arrested in Sydney on January 20 on the basis of an international arrest warrant issued by Croatia.
In early February Croatian authorities sent Australia an official request for his extradition.
Vasiljkovic is charged, in his capacity as commander of a special Serb paramilitary unit, with torturing and killing captive Croatian soldiers and police in a prison in Knin in June and July 1991 as well as in Bruska near Benkovac in February 1993.
He is also charged with devising, in agreement with a commander of the former Yugoslav People's Army (JNA), a plan of attacks in the Glina area resulting in the destruction of civilian facilities, the expulsion of the local population, the plundering of their property, and the killing and wounding of civilians, including a foreign journalist.