A phone-tapping case against former prominent Perth barrister Lloyd Rayney could be dropped, with prosecutors considering a submission that there is no public interest in pursuing the charges.
Rayney is accused of interfering with his estranged wife's telephone lines before her death in 2007.
The case had been delayed pending the outcome of a Supreme Court trial, during which Rayney successfully defended a charge of murdering his wife.
Corryn Rayney - a WA Supreme Court registrar and mother of two - disappeared on August 7, 2007, after her weekly bootscooting class.
She was found days later, buried headfirst in a bush grave at Perth's popular Kings Park.
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Lloyd Rayney was acquitted of murder in 2012 after a three-month judge-alone trial, dubbed WA's "trial of the decade", and a prosecution appeal was dismissed last September.
WA District Court Chief Judge Peter Martino heard on Monday that prosecutors needed more time to consider a submission from the defence that it was not in the public interest for the two phone-bugging charges against Rayney to proceed.
The case was adjourned until March 6.
