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.
He was appointed OBE for services to the Social Security Advisory Committee in 1993, and was knighted in 2004.
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