HALIFAX - The case of a man charged with breaking a publication ban in a sexual assault trial in Halifax has been adjourned to next week.

David Winslow Sparks was charged in September after police alleged he posted the name of a sexual assault victim on social media.

The victim's identity is protected by a publication ban.

Defence lawyer Lyle Howe was sentenced to three years in prison in that case after a jury convicted him of sexually assaulting a 19-year-old woman in March 2011.

Howe's lawyer has filed an appeal in that case.

Sparks is due to return to Dartmouth provincial court next Monday.