The prosecution is ready to open in the trial of eight defendants including former News International Chief Executive Rebekah Brooks and ex-Downing Street communications chief Andy Coulson.
Jury selection in the case, which could last up to six months, began on Monday at London's Old Bailey, with a pool of around 80 potential jurors cramming in to wood-panelled Court 12 to be whittled down to 33.
On Tuesday it's hoped that the panel who will hear the trial will be selected and sworn in, before Andrew Edis QC outlines the case for the prosecution.
Brooks and Coulson, both 45, are each accused of conspiracy to intercept communications in the course of their transmission.
They allegedly conspired with former News of the World head of news Ian Edmondson, 44, the tabloid's ex-managing editor Stuart Kuttner, 73, and others to illegally access voicemails between October 3, 2000 and August 9, 2006.
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Sun editor Brooks is also charged with two counts of conspiring with others to commit misconduct in public office, one between January 1 2004 and January 31 2012 and the other between February 9 2006 and October 16 2008, linked to alleged inappropriate payments to public officials.
She faces another two allegations of conspiracy to pervert the course of justice - one with her former personal assistant Cheryl Carter, 49, between July 6 and 9 2011.
It is alleged that they conspired to remove seven boxes of material from the News International archive.
The second count alleges that Brooks, her husband Charles Brooks and former head of security at News International Mark Hanna conspired together and with others between July 15 and July 19 2011 to pervert the course of justice.
It is claimed that they tried to conceal documents, computers and other electronic equipment from police officers who were investigating allegations of phone hacking and corruption of public officials in relation to the News of the World and The Sun newspapers.
Former Number 10 spin doctor and ex-News of the World editor Coulson is also facing two allegations that he conspired with the tabloid's former royal editor Clive Goodman, 56, from Addlestone in Surrey, and persons unknown to commit misconduct in public office - one between August 31 2002 and January 31 2003; and the other between January 31 and June 3 2005.
