A council has been ordered to pay £30,000 to a retired magistrate after accusing him of stealing part of his own garden.
Christopher Pinto was accused of carrying out a land grab by changing his back garden boundaries to encroach on a neighbouring nature reserve.
Haringey Council subjected the 77-year-old man to repeated legal threats over the around 460 square-foot piece of land at the bottom of his garden in Highgate, north London.
