His Honour Judge David Hodge KC is a Specialist Chancery Circuit Judge sitting principally in Manchester and Liverpool. He read law at University College, Oxford, graduating with a first-class BA degree in Jurisprudence in 1977 and the degree of BCL in 1978. He was called to the Bar in 1979, took silk in 1997 and was elected a Bencher of Lincoln’s Inn in 2000. He is the Deputy Chancellor of the Diocese of Blackburn.
David practised at the commercial Chancery Bar in Lincoln’s Inn between 1980 and 2005, first at 9 Old Square and, following its merger, at Maitland Chambers. He specialised in property litigation and related professional indemnity work.
His judicial career began sitting in crime, first as an assistant recorder (from 1998-2000) and then as a recorder (from 2000-2005). He was appointed to sit as a deputy High Court Judge of the Chancery Division in 2004, and then as one of the two Specialist Chancery (Senior) Circuit Judges on the Northern Circuit in November 2005. He sits principally hearing High Court Chancery cases in Manchester and in Liverpool, although he is also authorised to sit in the Queen’s Bench Division, the Circuit Commercial Court, the Technology and Construction Court and the Court of Protection. He has been appointed to sit in the Tax and Chancery Chamber and the Lands Chamber of the Upper Tribunal.
David has contributed the chapter on Chancery Matters to the last five editions of Foskett on Compromise (1996-2015) (Sweet & Maxwell). He is also the author of Rectification: The Modern Law and Practice Governing Claims for Rectification for Mistake (Sweet & Maxwell). He has also written articles for the Conveyancer & Property Lawyer (Sweet & Maxwell).
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