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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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2024-10-04
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The government is to ban payments to witnesses by newspapers seeking to buy up people involved in prominent cases(1)______ the trial of Rosemary West.
In a significant(2)______ of legal controls over the press, Lord Irvine, the Lord Chancellor, will introduce a(3)______ bill that will propose making payments to witnesses(4)______ and will strictly control the amount of (5)______ that can be given to a case (6)______ a trial begins.
In a letter to Gerald Kaufman, chairman of the House of Commons media select committee, Lord Irvine said he(7)______ with a committee report this year which said that self regulation did not(8)______ sufficient control.
(9)______ of the letter came two days after Lord Irvine caused a (10)______ of media protest when he said the(11)______ of privacy controls contained in European legislation would be left to judges(12)______ to Parliament.
The Lord Chancellor said introduction of the Human Rights Bill, which (13)______ the European Convention on Human Rights legally(14)______ in Britain, laid down that everybody was(15)______ to privacy and that public figures could go to court to protect themselves and their families.
"Press freedoms will be in safe hands(16)______ our British judges," he said.
Witness payments became an (17)______ after West was sentenced to 10 life sentences in 1995. Up to 19 witnesses were(18)______ to have received payments for telling their stories to newspapers. Concerns were raised(19)______ witnesses might be encouraged to exaggerate their stories in court to(20)______ guilty verdicts. [br] (10)
选项
A、storm
B、rage
C、flare
D、flash
答案
A
解析
固定搭配题。表示强烈的感情时,英语常用storm这个词来表示。a storm of protest意为“一阵猛烈的抗议”。
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