Davina Murray soon after she was charged with smuggling items into prison for convicted rapist and murderer Liam Reid. Photo / NZ Herald
Davina Murray soon after she was charged with smuggling items into prison for convicted rapist and murderer Liam Reid. Photo / NZ Herald
Disgraced lawyer Davina Reid, who was struck off for smuggling contraband into prison, is attempting to restart her law career.
Reid, formerly Davina Murray, smuggled a phone, a pack of cigarettes and a lighter into prison in 2011 for Liam James Reid.
He is serving a life sentencewith a 23-year non-parole period for raping and murdering Christchurch woman Emma Agnew in 2007, as well as the rape, attempted murder, and robbery of a 21-year-old student in Dunedin nine days later.
Reid was Davina Murray’s client at the time she smuggled in the contraband. The pair later got married in a chapel at Paremoremo Prison in June 2017.
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.
Earlier this year, the Supreme Court, the country’s final court of appeal, released its decision in which it turned her down.
However, a notice went up on the Law Society website in early October advising that Reid had applied to the Lawyers and Conveyancers Disciplinary Tribunal for restoration to the roll.
Objections or comments were due back to the Law Society by October 8.
A Law Society spokesperson told Stuff it would be opposing the application.
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