Sir Paul McCartney and his estranged wife Heather Mills are scheduled to return to London's High Court on Monday for their divorce to be formally finalised.

At the hearing before Justice Hugh Bennett, the couple are likely to be granted a divorce on the uncontested basis that they have lived apart for two years.

In March, the judge blasted Mills, branding her evidence in a battle over her divorce settlement as "inconsistent and inaccurate".

He ended up awarding Mills 24.3 million pounds, which was only a fifth of what she had been seeking.

McCartney married the former model and charity activist in 2002, four years after his first wife, Linda, died of breast cancer.

Mills and McCartney have a daughter, Beatrice.