The Office of Fair Trading (OFT) is to be pressed to investigate three UK judges over alleged cartel behaviour relating to a collective boycott of a legal tendering exercise.

The OFT is being asked to launch a formal investigation into whether the trio, in their previous roles as chairs of the Family Law Bar Association, breached the Competition Act by advising barristers to boycott a tender exercise initiated by legal procurement company First Law.

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