After a high profile five-week long trial last year, the South African doctor was found guilty of murdering her three young daughters just 19 days after arriving in New Zealand.
Dickason, 41, smothered Liane, 6, and 2-year-old twins Maya and Karla to death at their new home in Timaru on September 16, 2020.
The family had emigrated from South Africa, arriving in New Zealand on August 28.
Dickason admitted killing the girls but denied charges of murder - mounting a defence of insanity or infanticide on the basis she was so mentally unwell at the time she could not be held fully responsible for her actions.
She was sent to be sentenced on December 19 but the hearing was adjourned.
Yesterday Dickason’s case was called this week - a phone conference between the judge and lawyers with her physical attendance excused - and a new nominal date was scheduled for March 20.
If for any reason the hearing cannot proceed on that date, a new date will be allocated further in the future.
When Dickason is sentenced it will be to mandatory 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.
By Anna Leask
