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 draft bill that will propose making payments to witnesses【C3】______ and will strictly control the amount of【C4】______ that can be given to a case before a trial begins. In a letter to Gerald Kaufman, chairman of the House of Commons media select committee, Lord Irvine said he【C5】______ with a committee report this year which said that self regulation did not offer sufficient control. 【C6】______ of the letter came two days after Lord Irvine caused a storm of media protest when he said the 【C7】______ of privacy controls contained in European legislation would be left to judges【C8】______ to Parliament. The Lord Chancellor said introduction of the Human Rights Bill, which【C9】______ the European Convention on Human Rights legally【C10】______ in Britain, laid down that everybody was entitled to privacy and that public figures could go to court to protect themselves and their families.