The 14-year-old is yet to enter a plea to the allegation of wounding with intent to cause grievous bodily harm.

The young person, who cannot be named for legal reasons, was charged with the offence in January and remanded in custody - where she remains.

The strictly indictable matter had been listed for committal to a higher court on Monday, but instead the defence sought more time.

In Dubbo Children’s Court on Monday the teenager’s solicitor asked for a six-week adjournment to allow representations to be made to the Crown.

The court heard the representations were being prepared.

Magistrate Andrew Eckhold ordered representations be made within seven days and reply within two weeks after that.

All charges against the girl were adjourned until May 18, when she is to appear via audiovisual link. The teenager did not appear before the court on the audiovisual link up from her place of remand on Monday and there was no application for bail.

The girl, then aged 13, is alleged to have stabbed the taxi driver in the throat with a knife between 2am and 2.30am on January 24, before jumping out of the moving vehicle.

The 66-year-old driver was treated at Dubbo Hospital and despite sustaining a 5cm wound, police were told the injury was not life threatening. Wounding with intent to cause grievous bodily harm carries a maximum penalty of 25 years in jail and as a strictly indictable offence must be dealt with in the district court.