One magistrate lost his position because of his “appearance while shopping” while a circuit judge quit after being convicted of letting her dog bite a neighbour.
A female magistrate was criticised for her offensive behaviour towards a fellow member of the bench, while others failed to turn up to enough hearings.
Overall there were 1,615 complaints made against the approximately 30,000 members of the judiciary and magistracy in England and Wales during 2011-12.
This was a slight fall on the previous year, the Office for Judicial Complaints said in its annual report.
But almost half (789) were about decisions taken in cases so could not be considered, and 251 are still being investigated.
A further 601 alleged inappropriate behaviour or comments, 34 claimed discrimination by judges, 24 were to do with criminal proceedings and eight allegations were made about professional conduct.
In total 79 members of the judiciary were made subject to formal disciplinary action while a further eight were given “guidance” or told to undergo training.
The statistics show that 30 judges were removed from post, 22 were reprimanded, one was suspended and 14 resigned while under investigation.
Details of individual cases in the most recent year show that one JP, Rashpal Chana, was removed from the magistracy in Birmingham after being sentenced to four and a half years in jail for manslaughter.
He was convicted over the death of a two-year-old daughter of a girlfriend, who suffered serious burns from a scalding shower but was not taken to hospital for more than a week.
Robert Dell, a magistrate in Sutton Coldfield, lost his post after being jailed for seven years for blackmailing a man in order to pay a drug debt.
Beatrice Bolton became infamous when she stormed out of a court in Carlisle, as she was convicted of letting her German shepherd bite a neighbour. The judge retired on medical grounds in January before the disciplinary process against her had finished.
Shanaz Hussain, a JP in Pendle, was convicted of a £360,000 mortgage fraud by forging her estranged husband’s signature.
A magistrate in West Suffolk, Peter Hiett, was removed from his office after a panel found “his behaviour and appearance while shopping fell below the standards expected”.
Bernadette MacDonald-Raggett, who sat on the bench in Dorset, resigned after “behaving in an offensive manner towards another magistrate”.
The most senior judge to be disciplined in the past year was Lord Justice Thorpe, who was reprimanded in January after he was banned from driving for accumulating 12 points on his licence. He had been caught speeding and going through red lights.