An application for the extradition of Ian Bailey to France has been adjourned by the High Court.
Further legal submissions on the case will be submitted before it returns to court on 12 May.
However, the full hearing will not take place until a later date.
Mr Justice Tony Hunt said it was possible the case could be heard before the summer.
Mr Bailey is not required to attend court in the meantime.
They want him to stand trial for the voluntary homicide of Sophie Toscan du Plantier.
Mr Bailey, of The Prairie, Liscaha, Schull in Co Cork has always denied any involvement in her death.
This morning, his lawyers told the High Court the Fennelly Report into the recording of telephone calls at Garda stations had only been published last night and they would need time to consider it.
Ms Toscan du Plantier was found battered to death on a laneway leading to her holiday home in Schull in west Cork on 23 December 1996.
Mr Bailey was arrested twice for questioning in relation to Ms Toscan du Plantier's death in 1997 and 1998, but was released without charge on both occasions.
Mr Bailey has denied all links to the death of Ms Toscan du Plantier and claimed there was a garda conspiracy to frame him for her killing.
This is the second time the French authorities have tried to bring Mr Bailey to France following a rejection by the Supreme Court in 2012.
He could also be tried in his absence.
