The government is to ban payments to witnesses by newspapers seeking to buy up people invo

lved in prominent cases (1)_____ trial of Rosemary West. In a significant (2)_____ of legal controls over the press. Lord Irvine, the Lord Chancellor, will introduce a (3)_____ bill that will propose making payments to witnesses (4)_____ and will strictly control the amount of (5)_____ that can be given to a case (6)_____ a trial begins. In a letter to Gerald Kaufman, chairman of the House of commons media select committee. Lord Irvine said he (7)_____ with a committee report this year which said that self regulation did not (8)_____ sufficient control. (9)_____ of the letter came two days after Lord Irvine caused a (10)_____ of media protest when he said the (11)_____ of privacy controls contained in European legislation would be left to judges (12)_____ to Parliament.

The Lord Chancellor said introduction of the Human Rights Bill, which (13)_____ the European Convention on Human Rights legally (14)_____ in Britain, laid down that everybody was (15)_____ to privacy and that public figures could go to court to protect themselves and their families.

"Press freedoms will be in safe hands (16)_____ our British judges," he said. Witness payments became an (17)_____ after West was sentenced to 10 life sentences in 1995. Up to 19 witnesses were (18)_____ to have received payments for telling their stories to newspapers.

Concerns were raised (19)_____ witnesses might be encouraged to exaggerate their stories in court to (20)_____ guilty verdicts.

A．as to

B．for instance

C．in particular

D．such as