Born in Peterborough, Sir Henry Hodge became one of the UK’s most respected and progressive legal minds, dedicating his career to championing the causes of children, immigrants, and disadvantaged communities. Educated at Oxford, he began his career with the Child Poverty Action Group before co-founding the law firm Hodge, Jones & Allen in 1977 — a practice known for taking on groundbreaking social justice cases.
Hodge’s expertise spanned criminal, family, housing, and immigration law, and he became a powerful advocate for fairness and equality in the justice system. His judicial appointments included serving as a circuit judge, Chief Immigration Adjudicator, and later President of the Asylum and Immigration Tribunal. In 2004 he was appointed to the High Court’s Queen’s Bench Division and received a knighthood the same year.