With just weeks to go before Aung San Suu Kyi’s scheduled release, the High Court has agreed to hear arguments from her lawyers on whether to hear their appeal against her latest stint of house arrest.

The court’s response comes five months after lawyers for Suu Kyi filed a request to appeal her case with the Special Appellate Bench, a multi-judge panel in the remote administrative capital of Naypyitaw. The Nobel Peace Prize laureate has already lost two appeals against an August 2009 conviction.

Suu Kyi is due to be released on 13th November, a week after the country’s first elections in two decades. There is wide speculation the junta will release Suu Kyi as an olive branch to the international community, which has been critical of how the vote has been organized. A pro-junta party looks certain to win.

If an appeal were to be accepted, the outcome could coincide with her actual release.

“The High Court will hear arguments from both sides on Daw Aung San Suu Kyi’s special appeal on October 18,” her lawyer Nyan Win said