R v Coulson, Brooks and others was a trial at the Old Bailey in London, England, arising from the News International phone hacking scandal.

[6] Prime Minister David Cameron was criticised in court by the trial judge for public remarks he made in response to the guilty verdict while the jury was still considering the outstanding charges against Coulson and Goodman.

[7] On 30 June 2014 the trial judge, Mr Justice Saunders, announced that Coulson and the News of the World's former royal editor, Clive Goodman, would face a retrial on the outstanding charges.

On 3 October 2014, Edmondson changed his plea to guilty, becoming the eighth person to be convicted of phone hacking at the now-defunct News of the World.

These included the voicemails of two home secretaries, also, Sir Paul McCartney and the actors Jude Law and Sienna Miller.