Reid, formerly Davina Murray, was struck off in February 2015 after taking cigarettes and an iPhone into a jail for a convicted murderer she later married.
The phone, pack of cigarettes and lighter she smuggled into prison in 2011 were for Liam James Reid, who is serving a life sentence with a 23-year non-parole period for raping and murdering Christchurch woman Emma Agnew in 2007.
They later got married in a chapel at Paremoremo Prison in June 2017.
Davina Reid has been trying to be reinstated on the roll of barristers and solicitors since 2023.
After a tribunal refused her, she appealed to the High Court in August that year and was again turned down.
The Court of Appeal declined to hear her case, so she applied for leave to appeal directly to the Supreme Court.
On Friday, the Supreme Court, the country’s final court of appeal, released its decision in which it turned her down.
She also claimed that a “substantial miscarriage of justice” had occurred, because she had been discriminated against.
But the Supreme Court said her appeal was not an “appropriate vehicle” to consider tikanga issues, nor did it see any appearance of a miscarriage of justice.
“We are not therefore satisfied that it is necessary in the interests of justice for this court to hear and determine the proposed appeal,” the decision stated.
The courts have previously been told that Davina Reid has an unwavering belief that Liam Reid is innocent.
