The government isto ban payments to witnesses by newspapers seeking to buy up people involved inprominent cases
31 the trial of Rosemary West.
?eS;Yc In a significant
32 of legal controls over the press, LordIrvine, the Lord Chancellor, will introduce a
33 bill that will propose making paymentsto witnesses
34 and will strictly control the amount of
35 that can be given to a case
36 a trial begins.
N/tcW In a letter to Gerald Kaufman, chairman ofthe House of Commons media select committee, Lord Irvine said he
37 with a committee report this year whichsaid that self-regulation did not
38 sufficient control.
.S//T/3O]Q 39 of the letter came two days after LordIrvine caused a
40 of media protest when he said the
41 of privacy controls contained inEuropean legislation would be left to judges
42 to Parliament.
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iKHx_9P The Lord Chancellor said introduction ofthe Human Rights Bill, which
43 the European Convention on Human Rightslegally
44 in Britain, laid down that everybodywas
45 to privacy and that public figurescould go to court to protect themselves and their families.
/4x\}qvU "Press freedoms willbe in safe hands 46 our British judges," he said.
Witness payments became an
47 after West sentenced to 10 lifesentences in 1995. Up to 19 witnesses were
48 to have received payments for tellingtheir stories to newspapers. Concerns were raised
49 witnesses might be encouraged toexaggerate their stories in court to
50 guilty verdict.
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