Henry Hodge

January 12, 1944 (age 65)

Peterborough, Cambridgeshire, United Kingdom

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). He served as Deputy Chairman of the Legal Aid Board from 1996 to 1999. He was also a Vice-President of the Law Society. Judge Hodge became a Recorder in 1993, and a Circuit Judge in October 1999, when he retired from his firm. He was appointed Chief Immigration Adjudicator in 2001, by Derry Irvine then the Lord Chancellor. On 1 October 2004, he became the third Solicitor to sit as an High Court judge in England and Wales, after Sir Michael Sachs (appointed in 1993) and Sir Lawrence Collins (appointed in 2000). In April 2005, he became President of the Asylum and Immigration Tribunal. In October 2007 Hodge caused great controversy when he blocked a decision from the Home Office to deport a habitual criminal from Sierra Leone who was born in 1986. The immigrant carried out eleven sexual attacks on women in London parks for which he was convicted of sexual assault. He also has convictions for burglary and robbery and was refused British citizenship. The immigration judge in this case said the immigrant is at high risk of reoffending and has no meaningful relationships with his family members who live in the United Kingdom, yet decided he is "one of us". Hodge"s reason for not seeking to deport him was that the criminal in question left Sierra Leone to come to Britain when aged six. Politics Hodge was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire (Officer of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire) for services to the Social Security Advisory Committee in 1993, and was knighted in 2004. Hodge enjoyed motorcycling, and supported Arsenal. Having suffered a series of heart problems from 2007 which had required regular hospitalisation, Hodge was diagnosed with Acute myeloid leukaemia in September 2008, which after four sessions of chemotherapy was followed by a bone marrow transplant in February 2009. Taken ill again in June 2009, he was admitted to University College Hospital, London, where he died of liver failure on 18 June 2009, aged 65.

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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).

He served as Deputy Chairman of the Legal Aid Board from 1996 to 1999.

He was also a Vice-President of the Law Society. Judge

Hodge became a Recorder in 1993, and a Circuit Judge in October 1999, when he retired from his firm.

He was appointed Chief Immigration Adjudicator in 2001, by Derry Irvine then the Lord Chancellor. On 1 October 2004, he became the third Solicitor to sit as an High Court judge in England and Wales, after Sir Michael Sachs (appointed in 1993) and Sir Lawrence Collins (appointed in 2000).

In April 2005, he became President of the Asylum and Immigration Tribunal.

In October 2007 Hodge caused great controversy when he blocked a decision from the Home Office to deport a habitual criminal from Sierra Leone who was born in 1986. The immigrant carried out eleven sexual attacks on women in London parks for which he was convicted of sexual assault. He also has convictions for burglary and robbery and was refused British citizenship.

The immigration judge in this case said the immigrant is at high risk of reoffending and has no meaningful relationships with his family members who live in the United Kingdom, yet decided he is "one of us".

Hodge"s reason for not seeking to deport him was that the criminal in question left Sierra Leone to come to Britain when aged six. Politics

Hodge was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire (Officer of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire) for services to the Social Security Advisory Committee in 1993, and was knighted in 2004.

Hodge enjoyed motorcycling, and supported Arsenal. Having suffered a series of heart problems from 2007 which had required regular hospitalisation, Hodge was diagnosed with Acute myeloid leukaemia in September 2008, which after four sessions of chemotherapy was followed by a bone marrow transplant in February 2009.

Taken ill again in June 2009, he was admitted to University College Hospital, London, where he died of liver failure on 18 June 2009, aged 65.

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Hodge confessed that he was "married to the Labour Party", for which he contested the new seat of Croydon South in the February 1974 general election, but Sir William Clark won the seat for the Conservatives.

Membership

As a result, Hodge became a member of the "1,000 Club" of leading Labour party donors.

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