A method of decoding coefficients associated with a block of video data during a video decoding process, the method comprising: decoding information that identifies a position of a last non-zero coefficient within the block according to a scanning order associated with the block before decoding information that identifies positions of other coefficients within the block, wherein decoding said information that identifies the position of the last non-zero coefficient comprises: decoding a horizontal coordinate of the position of the last non-zero coefficient within the block according to the scanning order, and decoding a vertical coordinate of the position of the last non-zero coefficient within the block according to the scanning order, wherein each of the horizontal coordinate and the vertical coordinate comprises a binarized coordinate, such that the respective coordinate comprises a sequence of one or more bins, and wherein decoding each of the horizontal coordinate and the vertical coordinate comprises decoding the corresponding sequence by performing a context adaptive binary arithmetic coding process; wherein decoding the information that identifies positions of the other coefficients associated with the block includes decoding significance information for the other coefficients which are located before the last non-zero coefficient according to the scanning order associated with the block, wherein the other coefficients are arranged in one or more groups, and for each of the one or more groups the significance information is being jointly decoded when decoding the information that identifies positions of the other coefficients associated with the block. decoding information that identifies a position of a last non-zero coefficient within the block according to a scanning order associated with the block before decoding information that identifies positions of other coefficients within the block, wherein decoding said information that identifies the position of the last non-zero coefficient comprises: decoding a horizontal coordinate of the position of the last non-zero coefficient within the block according to the scanning order, and decoding a vertical coordinate of the position of the last non-zero coefficient within the block according to the scanning order, wherein each of the horizontal coordinate and the vertical coordinate comprises a binarized coordinate, such that the respective coordinate comprises a sequence of one or more bins, and wherein decoding each of the horizontal coordinate and the vertical coordinate comprises decoding the corresponding sequence by performing a context adaptive binary arithmetic coding process; decoding a horizontal coordinate of the position of the last non-zero coefficient within the block according to the scanning order, and decoding a vertical coordinate of the position of the last non-zero coefficient within the block according to the scanning order, wherein each of the horizontal coordinate and the vertical coordinate comprises a binarized coordinate, such that the respective coordinate comprises a sequence of one or more bins, and wherein decoding each of the horizontal coordinate and the vertical coordinate comprises decoding the corresponding sequence by performing a context adaptive binary arithmetic coding process; wherein decoding the information that identifies positions of the other coefficients associated with the block includes decoding significance information for the other coefficients which are located before the last non-zero coefficient according to the scanning order associated with the block, wherein the other coefficients are arranged in one or more groups, and for each of the one or more groups the significance information is being jointly decoded when decoding the information that identifies positions of the other coefficients associated with the block.