The government is to ban payments to witnesses by newspapers seeking to buy up people involved in prominent cases(C1)______the trial of Rosemary West. In a significant(C2)______of legal controls over the press. Lord Irvine, the Lord Chancellor, will introduce a(C3)______bill that will propose making payments to witnesses(C4)______and will strictly control the a mount of(C5)______that can be given to a case(C6)______a trial begins. In a letter to Gerald Kaufman, chairman of the House of Commons media select committee, Lord Irvine said he

(C7)______with a committee report this year which said that self regulation did not(C8)______sufficient control.(C9)______of the letter came two days after Lord Irvine caused a(C10)______of media protest when he said the(C11)______of privacy controls contained in European legislation would be left to judges(C12)______to Parliament.

The Lord Chancellor said introduction of the Human Rights Bill, which(C13)______the European Convention on Human Rights legally(C14)______in Britain, laid down that everybody was(C15)______to privacy and that public figures could go to court to protect themselves and their families.

“Press freedoms will be in safe hands(C16)______our British judges,” he said. Witness payments became an(C17)______after West was sentenced to 10 life sentences in 1995.Up to 19 witnesses were(C18)______to have received payments for telling their stories to newspapers. Concerns were raised(C19)______witnesses might be encouraged to exaggerate their stories in court to(C20)______guilty verdicts.

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A．as to

B．for instance

C．in particular

D．such as