Sir Henry Egar Garfield Hodge professionally styled The Hon Mr Justice Hodge, was an English solicitor and Justice of the High Court of England and Wales.
Sir Henry Egar Garfield Hodge (12 January 1944 – 18 June 2009) professionally styled The Hon Mr Justice Hodge, was an English solicitor and Justice of the High Court of England and Wales.
Early life
Born in Peterborough, Hodge was educated at Chigwell School and read Law at Balliol College, Oxford, graduating in 1965.
Career
Hodge qualified as a solicitor in 1970. He then joined the Child Poverty Action Group, working as its solicitor and deputy director until 1977. In 1974, he became chairman of the National Council for Civil Liberties (now Liberty).
In 1977 he founded Hodge Jones & Allen with partners Peter Jones and Patrick Allen, where all three practised. He served as Deputy Chairman of the Legal Aid Board from 1996 to 1999. He was also a Vice-President of the Law Society.
