After an intense and exhaustive five-week trial in the High Court at Christchurch earlier this year, a jury found Dickason guilty of three counts of murder.
She was sent to be sentenced on December 19.
However, the Herald has learned that date has been vacated.
A nominal date of February 2 has been allocated for her case to be called and on that date a new sentencing hearing could be set.
On that date, Dickason will be sentenced to life in prison and Justice Cameron Mander will set a minimum non-parole period.
He will also decide where she spends the start of her sentence - in prison or at the forensic psychiatric facility where she has been held since shortly after the murders.
Anna Leask is a Christchurch-based reporter who covers national crime and justice. She joined the Herald in 2008 and has worked as a journalist for 18 years. She writes, hosts and produces the award-winning podcast A Moment In Crime, released monthly on nzherald.co.nz
