Former political staffer Bruce Lehrmann's court bid to avoid facing a rape trial will likely be heard more than three years after the charges were filed.

Lehrmann, 30, is seeking to permanently stay proceedings in the rape case first brought to court in January 2023.

He is accused of raping a woman twice during the morning of October 10, 2021 after a night out in Toowoomba, west of Brisbane.

The stay application was briefly mentioned on Monday in the Queensland District Court at Ipswich following months of delays as Lehrmann's solicitor Zali Burrows sought access to additional material from police.

"On December 3 I intend to give you a hearing date," Judge Dennis Lynch said.

"It will be in the new year but it will be before myself sitting in Ipswich ... sometime in February probably."

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