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*iii) Any payment or offer of payment made to a person later cited to give
evidence in proceedings must be disclosed to the prosecution and
i) No payment or offer of payment to a witness -- or any parson who
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defence. The witness must be advised of this reculrament.
made in any case OnCe proceedings are active as defined by the
Contempt of Court Act 1981, This prohibition lasts until the suspect ! ~ "?;~yF;~. ~ ~’F~;S
has been freed unconditionally by police without charge or ball or the I) Payment or offers of payment for stories, pictures or information,
proceedings are otherwise discontinued; or has entered a guilty plea which seek to exploit a particular crime or to glorify or glamorise crime
to the court; or, in the event of a not guilty plea, the court has in general, must not be made directly or via agents to convicted or
announced its verdict, confessed criminals or to their associates -- who may include family,
=ii) Where proceedings are not yet active but are likely and foreseeable,
friends and c°lleagues"
editors must not make or offer payment to any person who may ii) Editors invoking the public interest to justify payment or offers would
reasonably be e×pected to be called as a witness, Unless the need to demonstrate thattherawas good reason to believe the public
information concerned ought demonstrably to be published in the interest would be served, if, despite payment, no public interest
public interest and there is an over-riding need to make or promise emerged, then the material should not be published,
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and the circumstances n one may n0t always
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