A NSW District Court judge has been referred to State Parliament for potential removal from office over "unacceptable" delays in delivering judgments, including two cases where the parties waited almost three years for a decision.

In a damning report, tabled in Parliament on Wednesday, a conduct division of the NSW Judicial Commission said it had "no confidence" Judge Peter Maiden, SC, would be able to deliver judgments "in a timely fashion" and this was "a fundamental aspect of the duties of a judge".

District Court judge Peter Maiden, SC.

The Judicial Commission referred to 15 cases where Judge Maiden took between a year and almost three years – 33 months and 34 months – to deliver written or oral judgments. In one case, he took "nearly two years" to write "a judgment of three and a half pages", it said.

The conduct division said Judge Maiden's "misbehaviour ... could reasonably be considered to be such as to adversely impact on the future reputation and standing of the District Court, if he were to continue as a judge of the court".