【单选题】

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 LordChancellor, 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 ofCommons 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 inEuropean legislation would be left to judges (60) to Parliament.
A、publicity
B、penalty C、popularityD、peculiarity