The BBC's Nick Higham: "They are getting divorced after all"

Mr Justice Connell is expected to hear preliminary submissions, in private, on the legal timetable for the split.

Jagger, the lead singer of the Rolling Stones, and Ms Hall are not expected to be present in court.

Jerry Hall: Claiming £30m

The hearing is due to take place despite recent speculation that the couple have settled their differences. Sightings of the pair with their four children have fuelled the rumours.

Jagger's legal team is expected to claim at a later full hearing that he was never validly married to Ms Hall at their Hindu wedding in Indonesia in 1991.

But lawyers for Ms Hall, who is seeking £30m from the singer, will claim that her marriage to Jagger on the holiday isle of Bali was valid.

Even if Jagger is successful in having the marriage declared null and void, Ms Hall's lawyers are likely to claim that she is entitled to a settlement on the same scale as if she had been his wife.

Ms Hall, 43, started divorce proceedings earlier this year after learning that Brazilian model Luciana Morad, 29, was pregnant following an alleged affair with Jagger, 55.