The High Court has dismissed a challenge by a Trinity College honours law graduate to a decision of the Society of King's Inns refusing her entry to the Inns.
The Society also secured its costs of the two-day hearing.
Ms Justine Quinn (23), with an address at Greendale Road, Raheny, Co Dublin, had told the court she had her heart set on becoming a barrister.
Conducting her own case, she said as a result of getting only 25 per cent in the Inns' company law entrance examination, she would have to consider emigrating.
She claimed the mark was not consistent with her average of 68 per cent in four other subjects and was "nothing short of an aberration" with no connection with her actual performance at examination.
In opposing Ms Quinn's proceedings, the Society argued the decision refusing her entry was not a matter amenable to judicial review and that she was not entitled to a High Court order.
In his reserved judgment, Mr Justice Smyth said he was satisfied fair procedures had been followed.
He rejected a submission that the defendants had engaged in unlawful activity and said there was no basis for such a claim. He also rejected a claim that Ms Quinn's constitutional rights had been infringed.
In the Society's statement of opposition to Ms Quinn's application, it argued that when she signed the application form to sit the King's Inns examination, she acknowledged she had read and was bound by the rules.