The days of the Adjudication Panel for England suspending councillors could be numbered, in the aftermath of Ken Livingstone's victory last week in the High Court.

Mr Justice Collins overturned a four-week suspension imposed on the London mayor by the panel, after he likened a Jewish reporter to a Nazi concentration guard during a social event. The panel ruled in February that Mr Livingstone had broken the Greater London Authority's code of conduct by making the remarks, and served him with a four-week suspension.