McKinnon's lawyer said she would review the judgment and could appeal the High Court decision to Britain's Supreme Court or European courts on humanitarian grounds.
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There is now a possibility that she may refuse to quit, as Sri Lanka's highest courts - the SupremeCourt and the AppealCourt - last month quashed the impeachment process as irregular and illegal, the BBC's Charles Haviland in Colombo reports.
On Wednesday, Lisa Madigan dismissed the notion that waiting for a decision on a SupremeCourtappeal was a political maneuver related to her campaign plans.