The judiciary has come under fresh scrutiny this week after a retiring senior judge’s details appeared prematurely on a mediation website and another continued working until days before his high-profile trial for indecent exposure.

The drive by many judges to extend their careers beyond retirement was questioned when a business profile of 66-year-old Lord Justice Chadwick, an experienced Court of Appeal judge, appeared on clerksroom.com, a website providing barristers, mediators and arbitrators across the UK.