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The government is to ban payments to witnesses by newspapers seeking to buy
The government is to ban payments to witnesses by newspapers seeking to buy
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2023-11-19
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The government is to ban payments to witnesses by newspapers seeking to buy up people involved in prominent eases 【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 amount 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】______ 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 【C10】______ a storm 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 【C13】______ of the Human Rights Bill, which makes 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 【C16】______ hands with our British judges," he said.
Witness payments became an issue 【C17】______ 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. [br] 【C12】
选项
A、other than
B、better than
C、sooner than
D、rather than
答案
D
解析
词组短语题。根据上下文,此处意为“将对欧洲法律条例中隐私控制的解释权交予法官而非议会”,rather than意为“而不是”,故正确。
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