An Island lawyer convicted of money laundering has lost her bid to apply to the final court of appeal for the Crown Dependencies, the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council.

Last year Jenny Dee Holt was given a suspended sentence of 12 months for handling ?400,000 stolen from a trust fund by Trevor and Wendy Baines. She was also convicted of falsifying documents while acting for the couple.

In February this year the she failed to have the conviction overturned in the Manx courts.

The court considered what test should be applied in a case where a person convicted of a criminal offence seeks leave to appeal to the privy council judicial committee.

Appeal Judge Tattersall and first Deemster Doyle concluded they must be satisfied a serious risk of miscarriage of justice may have occured.

Holt's advocate Richard Halsall argued that there was insufficient evidence for a properly directed jury to convict her.

He also sumbmitted the jury was misdirected as to the law, making the convictions unsafe.

But the court said its judgment on Holt's previous appeal dealt with those same areas and had already dismissed them.

It therefore declined to grant leave to appeal against its own decision.

Her legal team has now sent an application for leave to appeal to the Privy Council in London.