The government is to ban payments to witnesses by newspapers seeking to buy up people involved in prominent cases such as the trial of Rosemary West.

In a significant (51) of legal controls over the press. Lord Irvine, the Lord Chancellor, will introduce a (52) bill that will propose making payments to witnesses (53) and will strictly control the amount of (54) 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 (55) with a committee report this year which said that self regulation did not (56) sufficient control.

(57) of the letter came two days after Lord Irvine caused a (58) of media protest when he said the (59) of privacy controls contained in European legislation would be left to judges (60) to Parliament.

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A.sided 

B.shared 

C.complied 

D.agreed