End of story for cash lure
Chequebook-journalism payments to trial witnesses are to be outlawed, Lord Irvine, said.
In a Lords written reply, the Lord Chancellor said the Government had accepted a select-committee call for payments to witnesses and pre-trial publicity to be controlled by legislation. The committee report also urged strengthening the Contempt of Court Act.
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