From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Henry Hodge
Henry Hodge
In October 2007 Hodge caused great controversy
when he blocked a decision from the Home Office to de-
port an immigrant from Sierra Leone after the man car-
ried out a number of sexual attacks on women in London
parks[2]. Hodge’s reason for not seeking to deport him
was that the criminal in question had no family left in the
Sierra Leone, the country he left to come to Britain when
aged six.
He married Labour politician Margaret Hodge in
1978. In addition to a son and daughter from her first
marriage, they have two daughters together. He died of
leukaemia on 18 June 2009.
References
[1] Alastair Campbell’s Blog, 18 June 2009
[2] Asylum and Immigration Tribunal, appeal number:
IA/02279/2006
Bibliography
• Law Society Gazette, "The Inn crowd", 13 January 2005,
p.22.
• Profile from the Judicial Studies Board
• Appointment of new Chief Immigration Adjudicator,
Hodge,
Sir Henry Egar Garfield Hodge OBE (12 January 1944 -
Government press release, 20 March 2001
18 June 2009[1]), styled The Hon. Mr Justice Hodge was an
Hodge,
English solicitor and judge of the High Court of England
and Wales. External links
Hodge was educated at Chigwell School and read law
• - Hodge Jones & Allen LLP
at Balliol College, Oxford, graduating in 1965. He qualified
• Henry Hodge - Daily Telegraph obituary
as a solicitor in 1970. From 1977, he practised as a solici-
• - HJA mourns the passing of founder Sir Henry
tor in north London with the firm, Hodge Jones & Allen,
Hodge - Patrick Allen tribute
that he founded with partners Peter Jones and Patrick
Persondata
Allen. He became a recorder in 1993, and a circuit judge
in October 1999, when he retired from his firm. He was Name Hodge, Henry
appointed Chief Immigration Adjudicator in 2001. Alternative names
On 1 October 2004, he became the fourth solicitor to
Short description
sit as an High Court judge in England and Wales, after Sir
John Wall (appointed 1990), Sir Michael Sachs (appointed Date of birth 12 January 1944
in 1993) and Sir Lawrence Collins (appointed in 2000). In Place of birth
April 2005, he became president of the Asylum and Immi- Date of death 18 June 2009
gration Tribunal.
Place of death
He served as Deputy Chairman of the Legal Aid Board
from 1996 to 1999. He was chairman of the National
Council for Civil Liberties, and deputy director of the
Child Poverty Action Group. He received an OBE for ser-
vices to the Social Security Advisory Committee. He was
also a Vice-President of the Law Society.
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