Ken Livingstone has won a High Court appeal against a finding that he brought his office into disrepute over comments made to a Jewish journalist.
The mayor was found guilty of being "insensitive and offensive" to Evening Standard reporter Oliver Finegold by the Adjudication Panel for England.
Judge Mr Justice Collins had previously quashed a four-week suspension imposed over the issue.
The mayor likened the journalist Oliver Finegold to a Nazi camp guard.
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IMHO- of course
mayor had the right to freedom of speech in a democratic society and to express
his views within the law "as forcibly as he thought fit".
The judge added: "Surprising as it may perhaps appear to some, the right of
freedom of speech does extend to abuse."
Although the panel tribunal had been entitled to conclude his Nazi gibe
brought the mayor into disrepute, the judge said he was not persuaded the office
had also been brought into disrepute.
The panel had applied a test which "failed to recognise the real distinction
between the man and the office".