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Tue 11 Nov 2006Hain faces top-level inquiry over 'victims' appointmentNorthern Secretary Peter Hain and some of his senior civil servants were last night at the centre of a serious judicial and political dispute over the appointment of the North's interim victims' commissioner Bertha McDougall, writes Gerry Moriarty, Northern EditorBelfast High Court judge Mr Justice Girvan yesterday queried whether Mr Hain was guilty of perverting the course of justice. The judge has already described the appointment as a confidence building gesture to the DUP.