A forensic investigator being sued for defamation by Lloyd Rayney over comments about the mysterious death of the former Perth barrister's wife has failed in a last-minute bid to have the judge who presided over the trial remove herself from the case.
The legal action arose out of comments Mark Reynolds made to a public forum in 2014 that there was "no need for a cold case review" into the killing of Corryn Rayney in 2007 because "the offender was identified".
