[1] In 1331 he was commissioner of assize for Jersey, Guernsey, Alderney and Sark, and in the same year he became Chief Justice of the Irish Common Pleas.
[2] In 1332 he received an unspecified reward for his good services in Ireland and a grant of lands at Malahide, north of Dublin city.
[1] In the late 1330s, the poor quality of the Irish judges was giving great concern to the English Crown.
The Lord Chancellor of Ireland, Thomas Charlton, Bishop of Hereford, was instructed to remove those Irish judges who were considered to be unfit for office and replace them with judges of English birth.
Scardeburgh was re-selected for his old position of Chief Justice of Common Pleas in Ireland to replace Simon Fitz-Richard, who had a bad reputation for bribery and corruption, but Fitz-Richard fought a successful campaign to retain his place and Scardeburgh did not come over to Ireland.