The trial of The Sun and the Daily Mirror on a charge of contempt of court, for coverage of the Joanna Yeates killing, takes places next week.
It will start in the high court on Tuesday and is expected to last two days.
The attorney general, Dominic Grieve, is pursuing the contempt proceedings over articles about Christopher Jefferies, the man arrested during the police inquiry into the murder last December of Yeates, a tenant at his house in Bristol.
Grieve has alleged that two articles in the Mirror and one in The Sun might have prejudiced a trial should Jefferies have been charged.
In fact, Jefferies was later released without charge and another man, also a tenant, was later charged. His trial has yet to take place.
Both papers deny liability for contempt.
One man sure to be closely monitoring the trial is Louis Charalambous, the lawyer acting for Jefferies, who says his client expects newspaper owners to fire editors if found guilty of contempt.
Charalambous has also issued writs for libel against the Mirror and Sun, plus four other papers - the Daily Mail, Daily Express, Daily Star and Daily Record.
Sources: PA/Guardian archive
