A mother accused of hurling an anti-Semitic insult during a children's netball game is set to fight the charge.
Jody Scarcella, 42, is expected to plead not guilty to using offensive language in a public place after her lawyer foreshadowed the move during the first mention of her case in a NSW local court on Wednesday.
"She's maintaining her plea of (not) guilty," her lawyer Justin Drew told reporters outside John Maddison Tower.