Notorious rapist Nicholas Reekie has again had an appeal shut down by the Supreme Court.
In 2012, Reekie was awarded $1000 in costs by Justice Edwin Wylie after he attempted to sue the Corrections Department, the Attorney-General and Waitakere District Court for humiliation and unlawful detention while in Auckland's Paremoremo Prison in 2001 and 2002, to the sum of $1 million.
He later won the right to appeal the court's decision not to grant him full costs of $5762.
But in October last year, the Supreme Court closed the avenue of appeal as it found there wasn't "any real prospect of a miscarriage of justice arising".
Reekie applied for a recall of the judgment but it was dismissed yesterday as the court found their was "no error in judgment" when the initial appeal was declined.