Mark Henderson
@markhenderson.bsky.social
Media and human rights barrister at Doughty Street Chambers.
Chair of The Bar Council Disability Panel.
Board, Spinal Injuries.
Ambassador, ParaPride.
Views my own (he/him)
https://www.doughtystreet.co.uk/barristers/mark-henderson
Chair of The Bar Council Disability Panel.
Board, Spinal Injuries.
Ambassador, ParaPride.
Views my own (he/him)
https://www.doughtystreet.co.uk/barristers/mark-henderson
Really looking forward to discussing “Making chambers accessible for all” with an expert panel at the @thebarcouncil.bsky.social online event this evening.
It is aimed at improving physical access into/around chambers for mobility impaired Disabled people.
You can register up to the start at 17.30
It is aimed at improving physical access into/around chambers for mobility impaired Disabled people.
You can register up to the start at 17.30
We're one week away from our disability inclusion seminar.
This year we're focusing on physical access to chambers for mobility impaired people.
Find out more about our panel of expert speakers, view the programme, and book your free place today: www.barcouncil.org.uk/training-eve...
This year we're focusing on physical access to chambers for mobility impaired people.
Find out more about our panel of expert speakers, view the programme, and book your free place today: www.barcouncil.org.uk/training-eve...
November 4, 2025 at 4:32 PM
Really looking forward to discussing “Making chambers accessible for all” with an expert panel at the @thebarcouncil.bsky.social online event this evening.
It is aimed at improving physical access into/around chambers for mobility impaired Disabled people.
You can register up to the start at 17.30
It is aimed at improving physical access into/around chambers for mobility impaired Disabled people.
You can register up to the start at 17.30
Proud of my team members for this twin shortlisting of @doughtystreet.bsky.social for Media, Privacy and Information Set of the Year and Human Rights and Public Law Set of the Year. With particular congratulations and thanks to our amazing clerks.
Doughty Street Chambers is delighted to have been shortlisted at the Chambers UK Bar Awards 2025 for Human Rights and Public Law - Set of the Year and Media, Privacy, Information Law - Set of the Year!
Doughty Street Chambers shortlisted at the Chambers UK Bar Awards 2025
Doughty Street Chambers is delighted to have been shortlisted at the Chambers UK Bar Awards 2025 for Human Rights and Public Law - Set of the Year and Media,
www.doughtystreet.co.uk
September 17, 2025 at 5:15 PM
Proud of my team members for this twin shortlisting of @doughtystreet.bsky.social for Media, Privacy and Information Set of the Year and Human Rights and Public Law Set of the Year. With particular congratulations and thanks to our amazing clerks.
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A statement from SIA⬇️
September 17, 2025 at 11:00 AM
A statement from SIA⬇️
The unique challenges faced by the LGBTQ+ disabled community ⬇️ Featured in @spinalinjuries.bsky.social Forward Magazine, I spoke at SIA’s first Disability Pride Month webinar on amplifying LGBTQ+ disabled voices, working with orgs such as #ParaPride. #SpinalCordInjury #DisabilityPride #Disability
September 16, 2025 at 10:44 AM
The unique challenges faced by the LGBTQ+ disabled community ⬇️ Featured in @spinalinjuries.bsky.social Forward Magazine, I spoke at SIA’s first Disability Pride Month webinar on amplifying LGBTQ+ disabled voices, working with orgs such as #ParaPride. #SpinalCordInjury #DisabilityPride #Disability
Brilliant opportunity at a brilliant organisation!
Join our team 💙 We are currently recruiting for a head of communications:
⏰ Full-time
💻 Hybrid
❗Closes 29 September
Find out more, and APPLY on our website https://spinal.jobs.people-first.com/jobs/search #Recruitment #Communications
⏰ Full-time
💻 Hybrid
❗Closes 29 September
Find out more, and APPLY on our website https://spinal.jobs.people-first.com/jobs/search #Recruitment #Communications
September 16, 2025 at 10:33 AM
Brilliant opportunity at a brilliant organisation!
As Chair of our Disability Working Group, I’ve seen the hard work of a committed and inclusive group of staff and barristers take us from a standing start in 2021 to becoming the first chambers accredited as a Disability Confident Leader in 2025. A milestone, not an endpoint. #DisabilityConfident
We are delighted to announce that Doughty Street Chambers has been validated as a ‘Disability Confident Leader’. We are proud to be the first barristers chambers to achieve this status.
Read here: www.doughtystreet.co.uk/news/doughty...
Read here: www.doughtystreet.co.uk/news/doughty...
Doughty Street Chambers is first chambers to be recognised as Disability Confident Leader
We are delighted to announce that Doughty Street Chambers has been validated as a ‘Disability Confident Leader’. This is the highest level of the Government’s Disability Confident scheme.
www.doughtystreet.co.uk
August 28, 2025 at 7:27 PM
As Chair of our Disability Working Group, I’ve seen the hard work of a committed and inclusive group of staff and barristers take us from a standing start in 2021 to becoming the first chambers accredited as a Disability Confident Leader in 2025. A milestone, not an endpoint. #DisabilityConfident
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Doughty Street Chambers is delighted to have been shortlisted at the Chambers UK Bar Awards 2025 for Human Rights and Public Law - Set of the Year and Media, Privacy, Information Law - Set of the Year!
Doughty Street Chambers shortlisted at the Chambers UK Bar Awards 2025
Doughty Street Chambers is delighted to have been shortlisted at the Chambers UK Bar Awards 2025 for Human Rights and Public Law - Set of the Year and Media,
www.doughtystreet.co.uk
August 28, 2025 at 2:18 PM
Doughty Street Chambers is delighted to have been shortlisted at the Chambers UK Bar Awards 2025 for Human Rights and Public Law - Set of the Year and Media, Privacy, Information Law - Set of the Year!
Really looking forward to being part of a great team talking about Disabled LGBTQ+ intersections
🏳️🌈 On Tuesday 22 July we will be hosting a FREE Disability Pride Month webinar, sharing lived experiences of being part of the LGBTQ+ community and the unique challenges of the intersectionality between disability, gender and sexuality 🌈
Register today www.spinal.co.uk/get-involved...
Register today www.spinal.co.uk/get-involved...
July 21, 2025 at 8:02 PM
Really looking forward to being part of a great team talking about Disabled LGBTQ+ intersections
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Mark Henderson (@markhenderson.bsky.social) acts for the Claimant, instructed by Paul Greenberg at Cohen Davis Solicitors, and led by Lorna Skinner KC. 3/3
May 13, 2025 at 12:50 PM
Mark Henderson (@markhenderson.bsky.social) acts for the Claimant, instructed by Paul Greenberg at Cohen Davis Solicitors, and led by Lorna Skinner KC. 3/3
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It held that all three were defamatory of the Claimant at common law: the first two conveyed that the Claimant was a paedophile and the third that the Claimant was party to a co-ordinated effort by child molesters who had adopted LGBT causes. 2/3
May 13, 2025 at 12:50 PM
It held that all three were defamatory of the Claimant at common law: the first two conveyed that the Claimant was a paedophile and the third that the Claimant was party to a co-ordinated effort by child molesters who had adopted LGBT causes. 2/3
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The High Court has handed down a preliminary trial judgment in Paisley v Linehan dealing with three statements published as comments written by subscribers on the Defendant’s Substack blog. 1/3
High Court finds defamatory paedophile meanings in Paisley v Linehan judgment
The High Court has handed down a preliminary trial judgment in Paisley v Linehan dealing with three statements published as comments written by subscribers on the Defendant’s Substack
www.doughtystreet.co.uk
May 13, 2025 at 12:50 PM
The High Court has handed down a preliminary trial judgment in Paisley v Linehan dealing with three statements published as comments written by subscribers on the Defendant’s Substack blog. 1/3
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Mark Henderson (@markhenderson.bsky.social), instructed by Filiz Kiani of Cohen Davis, acted for Mr Kebbie. The claim ended in the Police paying £67,500 in libel and privacy damages and apologising in the High Court for the false allegations. 2/3
April 15, 2025 at 4:38 PM
Mark Henderson (@markhenderson.bsky.social), instructed by Filiz Kiani of Cohen Davis, acted for Mr Kebbie. The claim ended in the Police paying £67,500 in libel and privacy damages and apologising in the High Court for the false allegations. 2/3
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📢 ATP closes on Monday 31 March.
If you're still to renew your practising certificate please consider subscribing to the BRF when you do so.
The BRF is vital funding for our work, and gives you access to exclusive discounts: lnkd.in/eM2chgur
If you're still to renew your practising certificate please consider subscribing to the BRF when you do so.
The BRF is vital funding for our work, and gives you access to exclusive discounts: lnkd.in/eM2chgur
March 25, 2025 at 10:05 AM
📢 ATP closes on Monday 31 March.
If you're still to renew your practising certificate please consider subscribing to the BRF when you do so.
The BRF is vital funding for our work, and gives you access to exclusive discounts: lnkd.in/eM2chgur
If you're still to renew your practising certificate please consider subscribing to the BRF when you do so.
The BRF is vital funding for our work, and gives you access to exclusive discounts: lnkd.in/eM2chgur
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✨Congratulations to our fantastic Laurie-Anne Power KC and Simon Regis CBE - winners of the #L500ESGawards ethnicity champions 2025. Laurie-Anne and Simon co-chaired our race panel when we launched the Race at the Bar: 3 years on report. Read more: www.barcouncil.org.uk/resource/rac...
March 26, 2025 at 5:20 PM
✨Congratulations to our fantastic Laurie-Anne Power KC and Simon Regis CBE - winners of the #L500ESGawards ethnicity champions 2025. Laurie-Anne and Simon co-chaired our race panel when we launched the Race at the Bar: 3 years on report. Read more: www.barcouncil.org.uk/resource/rac...
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It's Paralysed Bowel Awareness Day!
It's not only mobility; SCI means bowels can be paralysed too. Only 37% of NHS trusts have nurses that are trained to undertake essential bowel care🧵
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It's not only mobility; SCI means bowels can be paralysed too. Only 37% of NHS trusts have nurses that are trained to undertake essential bowel care🧵
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Paralysed bowel campaign - SIA
It’s not only mobility. Bowels can be paralysed too. Bowel care is often neglected in medical settings due to the...
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February 10, 2025 at 9:00 AM
It's Paralysed Bowel Awareness Day!
It's not only mobility; SCI means bowels can be paralysed too. Only 37% of NHS trusts have nurses that are trained to undertake essential bowel care🧵
[MAIN VIDEO LINK]
It's not only mobility; SCI means bowels can be paralysed too. Only 37% of NHS trusts have nurses that are trained to undertake essential bowel care🧵
[MAIN VIDEO LINK]
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Over half of NHS trusts don't have a bowel care policy. We want to help HCPs challlenge their trust's bowel care policy - if it isn't good enough, then let's change it. Together.
To find out more about our work, visit our website⬇️
https://buff.ly/3EiRFED
@hudgellsolicitors.bsky.social
To find out more about our work, visit our website⬇️
https://buff.ly/3EiRFED
@hudgellsolicitors.bsky.social
Paralysed bowel campaign - SIA
It’s not only mobility. Bowels can be paralysed too. Bowel care is often neglected in medical settings due to the...
buff.ly
February 10, 2025 at 9:03 AM
Over half of NHS trusts don't have a bowel care policy. We want to help HCPs challlenge their trust's bowel care policy - if it isn't good enough, then let's change it. Together.
To find out more about our work, visit our website⬇️
https://buff.ly/3EiRFED
@hudgellsolicitors.bsky.social
To find out more about our work, visit our website⬇️
https://buff.ly/3EiRFED
@hudgellsolicitors.bsky.social
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ParaPride - Marking History 2025 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
Join Para Pride for a big celebration of our powerful Disabled LGBTQ+ community!
📅Saturday 8th February
⏰12:00 - 17:00
📍Hoxton Hall
Get your tickets now!👇https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/parapride-marking-history-2025-tickets-1070437640799?aff=oddtdtcreator
Join Para Pride for a big celebration of our powerful Disabled LGBTQ+ community!
📅Saturday 8th February
⏰12:00 - 17:00
📍Hoxton Hall
Get your tickets now!👇https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/parapride-marking-history-2025-tickets-1070437640799?aff=oddtdtcreator
January 28, 2025 at 10:22 AM
ParaPride - Marking History 2025 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
Join Para Pride for a big celebration of our powerful Disabled LGBTQ+ community!
📅Saturday 8th February
⏰12:00 - 17:00
📍Hoxton Hall
Get your tickets now!👇https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/parapride-marking-history-2025-tickets-1070437640799?aff=oddtdtcreator
Join Para Pride for a big celebration of our powerful Disabled LGBTQ+ community!
📅Saturday 8th February
⏰12:00 - 17:00
📍Hoxton Hall
Get your tickets now!👇https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/parapride-marking-history-2025-tickets-1070437640799?aff=oddtdtcreator
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Our friends at ParaPride are once again celebrating LGBT+ History Month in style with their Marking History 2025 event. It's this Saturday 8th Feb, 12noon until 5pm at Hoxton Hall in London. You can buy your tickets at https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/parapride-marking-history-2025-tickets-1070437640…
February 5, 2025 at 1:00 PM
Our friends at ParaPride are once again celebrating LGBT+ History Month in style with their Marking History 2025 event. It's this Saturday 8th Feb, 12noon until 5pm at Hoxton Hall in London. You can buy your tickets at https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/parapride-marking-history-2025-tickets-1070437640…
On this #InternationalDayofDisabledPeople the UN theme is amplifying disabled leadership.
Doughty Street Chambers celebrates its Disability Working Group, which I chair. It has led change to embed disability rights & accessibility for workforce and clients shorturl.at/Qhjdj
#IDPWD2024 #Disability
Doughty Street Chambers celebrates its Disability Working Group, which I chair. It has led change to embed disability rights & accessibility for workforce and clients shorturl.at/Qhjdj
#IDPWD2024 #Disability
Doughty Street Chambers on LinkedIn: #internationaldayofdisabledpeople #iddp #idpwd2024…
Today is #internationaldayofdisabledpeople #IDDP #IDPWD2024 The UN’s 2024 Theme is “Amplifying the leadership of persons with disabilities” which “is…
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December 3, 2024 at 8:50 PM
On this #InternationalDayofDisabledPeople the UN theme is amplifying disabled leadership.
Doughty Street Chambers celebrates its Disability Working Group, which I chair. It has led change to embed disability rights & accessibility for workforce and clients shorturl.at/Qhjdj
#IDPWD2024 #Disability
Doughty Street Chambers celebrates its Disability Working Group, which I chair. It has led change to embed disability rights & accessibility for workforce and clients shorturl.at/Qhjdj
#IDPWD2024 #Disability
It was a pleasure to chair this event: a great expert panel hugely enhanced by the questions and insights of such an engaged and large audience!
Research indicates chambers struggle to apply RAs for disabled/neurodivergent pupils. Watch if interested in #neurodiversity & #disability at the Bar.
Research indicates chambers struggle to apply RAs for disabled/neurodivergent pupils. Watch if interested in #neurodiversity & #disability at the Bar.
In November, we hosted 'Disability inclusion: Neurodiversity at the Bar.' The webinar was designed to help those supervising and supporting neurodivergent pupils and colleagues.
If you missed it, you can watch the recording on our website now ⬇️
www.barcouncil.org.uk/training-eve...
If you missed it, you can watch the recording on our website now ⬇️
www.barcouncil.org.uk/training-eve...
Disability inclusion: Neurodiversity at the Bar
An online event designed to guide chambers professionals and pupil supervisors to make adjustments for neurodiverse pupils' and colleagues' practice.
www.barcouncil.org.uk
December 3, 2024 at 3:16 PM
It was a pleasure to chair this event: a great expert panel hugely enhanced by the questions and insights of such an engaged and large audience!
Research indicates chambers struggle to apply RAs for disabled/neurodivergent pupils. Watch if interested in #neurodiversity & #disability at the Bar.
Research indicates chambers struggle to apply RAs for disabled/neurodivergent pupils. Watch if interested in #neurodiversity & #disability at the Bar.
Winning Charity of the Year is a testament to the work of @spinalinjuries.bsky.social in supporting, advocating and campaigning for 100,000 people living with paralysis: our volunteers in all capacities & esp. our amazing staff team led by @nikhartley.bsky.social. Double your donation: now - 10 Dec
We're over the moon to have won Charity of the Year at the Neuro Rehab Times Awards 2024 🏆 Our amazing support sine officer Teresa also received a commendation in the Inspirational contribution category. Thank you so much!
Read more: www.spinal.co.uk/news/charity...
#CharityoftheYear #ThankYou
Read more: www.spinal.co.uk/news/charity...
#CharityoftheYear #ThankYou
SIA named Charity of the Year at NR Times Awards 2024
We are thrilled to have been named Charity of the Year by Neuro Rehab Times at the NR Times Awards...
www.spinal.co.uk
December 3, 2024 at 2:52 PM
Winning Charity of the Year is a testament to the work of @spinalinjuries.bsky.social in supporting, advocating and campaigning for 100,000 people living with paralysis: our volunteers in all capacities & esp. our amazing staff team led by @nikhartley.bsky.social. Double your donation: now - 10 Dec
The High Court has handed down a defamation preliminary trial judgment in David Paisley v Graham Linehan.
I act for the Claimant, instructed by Cohen Davis. The Preliminary Issues were meaning, whether defamatory, and whether fact and/or opinion.
More here: www.doughtystreet.co.uk/news/high-co...
I act for the Claimant, instructed by Cohen Davis. The Preliminary Issues were meaning, whether defamatory, and whether fact and/or opinion.
More here: www.doughtystreet.co.uk/news/high-co...
High Court hands down defamation preliminary trial judgment in Paisley v Linehan
The High Court has handed down judgment in the defamation Preliminary Trial in Paisley v Linehan.
www.doughtystreet.co.uk
November 29, 2024 at 3:58 PM
The High Court has handed down a defamation preliminary trial judgment in David Paisley v Graham Linehan.
I act for the Claimant, instructed by Cohen Davis. The Preliminary Issues were meaning, whether defamatory, and whether fact and/or opinion.
More here: www.doughtystreet.co.uk/news/high-co...
I act for the Claimant, instructed by Cohen Davis. The Preliminary Issues were meaning, whether defamatory, and whether fact and/or opinion.
More here: www.doughtystreet.co.uk/news/high-co...
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Remembering Sir Frank Williams, three years on from his passing 💙 with @williamsracingf1.bsky.social. An amazing man who will forever be in our hearts here at SIA, and whose legacy lives on through our Frank Williams Academy www.spinal.co.uk/welcome-fran...
November 28, 2024 at 11:06 AM
Remembering Sir Frank Williams, three years on from his passing 💙 with @williamsracingf1.bsky.social. An amazing man who will forever be in our hearts here at SIA, and whose legacy lives on through our Frank Williams Academy www.spinal.co.uk/welcome-fran...
It was a great @spinalinjuries.bsky.social Board meeting. Excited to work with our brilliant new Trustees.
I agree with Nik - we saw both the power of our advocacy for members battling for NHS continuing healthcare, and its overwhelming importance to their right to independent living.
#disability
I agree with Nik - we saw both the power of our advocacy for members battling for NHS continuing healthcare, and its overwhelming importance to their right to independent living.
#disability
My Board. All day on a Saturday. Committed and on it from morning till evening. With a fantastic presentation from one of our members describing how we helped him get his continuing healthcare. 'life transforming'. 👇
November 26, 2024 at 7:44 PM
It was a great @spinalinjuries.bsky.social Board meeting. Excited to work with our brilliant new Trustees.
I agree with Nik - we saw both the power of our advocacy for members battling for NHS continuing healthcare, and its overwhelming importance to their right to independent living.
#disability
I agree with Nik - we saw both the power of our advocacy for members battling for NHS continuing healthcare, and its overwhelming importance to their right to independent living.
#disability
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Time to dust off my theory that the most radical improvement the govt cd make to the asylum system wd be resurrecting Refugee & Migrant Justice and/or Immigration Advisory Service, as large-scale NGO providers of advice & representation as well as centres of excellence in training, good practice etc
Lack of legal aid lawyers poses threat to Starmer’s asylum pledge, experts say www.theguardian.com/law/2024/nov...
My data ahows 57% deficit in asylum legal aid provision. Huge human cost but also financial cost in delays. @heidialexander.bsky.social
My data ahows 57% deficit in asylum legal aid provision. Huge human cost but also financial cost in delays. @heidialexander.bsky.social
Lack of legal aid lawyers poses threat to Starmer’s asylum pledge, experts say
Figures show rise in numbers unable to access legal aid lawyer, with knock-on implications for clearing backlog
www.theguardian.com
November 26, 2024 at 8:56 AM
Time to dust off my theory that the most radical improvement the govt cd make to the asylum system wd be resurrecting Refugee & Migrant Justice and/or Immigration Advisory Service, as large-scale NGO providers of advice & representation as well as centres of excellence in training, good practice etc