填空题 The government is to ban payments to witnesses by newspapers seeking to buy up people involved in prominent cases ---|||________|||---the trial of Rosemary West. In a significant ---|||________|||---of legal controls over the press, Lord Irvine, the Lord Chancellor, will introduce a ---|||________|||---bill that will propose making payments to witnesses ---|||________|||---and will strictly control the amount of ---|||________|||---that can be given to a case ---|||________|||---a trial begins. In a letter to Gerald Kaufman, chairman of the House of Commons media select committee, Lord Irvine said he ---|||________|||---with a committee report this year which said that self regulation did not ---|||________|||---sufficient control. ---|||________|||---of the letter came two days after Lord Irvine caused a ---|||________|||---of media protest when he said the ---|||________|||---of privacy controls contained in European legislation would be left to judges ---|||________|||---to Parliament. The Lord Chancellor said introduction of the Human Rights Bill, which ---|||________|||---the European Convention on Human Rights legally ---|||________|||---in Britain, laid down that everybody was ---|||________|||---to privacy and that public figures could go to court to protect themselves and their families. "Press freedoms will be in safe hands ---|||________|||---our British judges,"he said. Witness payments became an ---|||________|||---after West was sentenced to 10 life sentences in 1995. Up to 19 witnesses were ---|||________|||---to have received payments for telling their stories to newspapers. Concerns were raised ---|||________|||---witnesses might be encouraged to exaggerate their stories in court to ---|||________|||---guilty verdicts.