Mark Henderson

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Doughty Street Chambers’ response to proposals to curtail trial by jury Trial by jury is a deeply entrenched constitutional principle and anchors our liberal democracy. Jury trials enable people to participate and have a say in their criminal justice system.

𝗗𝗼𝘂𝗴𝗵𝘁𝘆 𝗦𝘁𝗿𝗲𝗲𝘁 𝗖𝗵𝗮𝗺𝗯𝗲𝗿𝘀’ 𝗿𝗲𝘀𝗽𝗼𝗻𝘀𝗲 𝘁𝗼 𝗽𝗿𝗼𝗽𝗼𝘀𝗮𝗹𝘀 𝘁𝗼 𝗰𝘂𝗿𝘁𝗮𝗶𝗹 𝘁𝗿𝗶𝗮𝗹 𝗯𝘆 𝗷𝘂𝗿𝘆

Full response available here: www.doughtystreet.co.uk/news/doughty...

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

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.

A statement from SIA⬇️

'In many ways their SCI puts them back in the closet...suddenly the apartment's not accessible, they need care, they may have to go back to their family where they're not fully out and where there's no gay scene...'

A magazine page titled “Celebrating Disability Pride Month.” The headline uses bright, bold fonts in pink, teal, and yellow, with colourful abstract shapes and diagonal stripes in the top-right corner. Below, text describes the Spinal Injuries Association (SIA)’s first Disability Pride Month webinar, held in July, focusing on the experiences of LGBTQ+ disabled people and the intersection of disability, gender, and sexuality. The article highlights speakers Kerryn Pratt, Stuart Miles, and Mark Henderson (an ambassador for ParaPride). Topics discussed include resilience, inclusion, accessible spaces, and the unique challenges faced by LGBTQ+ disabled people. A photo in the bottom-left corner shows a webinar slide reading “Disability Pride Webinar.” The layout uses playful icons (arrows, swirls, dots) in teal, pink, and yellow alongside blocks of text.

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!

It was a team effort and we could not have done it without you Evelyn!

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

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,

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

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

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

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

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

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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Graphic image with a black background and gold and white writing. The text reads: Winner. Legal500 UK ESH Awards 2025. Ethnicity Champion 2025

✨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...

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...

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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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...

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

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

Text says: ParaPride Pride in Everybody. Marking history! Join us for a big celebration of our powerful disabled LGBTQ+ community. Saturday 8 February 2025, Hoxton Hall from 12pm. Tickets available now. Link in bio. Around the edges of the graphic are different coloured curvy blobs and shapes.

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…

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…

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

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.

Double your donation to @spinalinjuries.bsky.social between today and 10th Dec here: t.co/WUkrDrE37T #disability

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

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.

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...

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

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

Excited to be chairing this. Panel: Helen Eaton, @ndinlaw.bsky.social's Alice de Coverley & Oliver May.

Bar Council research indicates chambers may struggle to apply RAs for neurodivergent pupils, so this is for those supporting them & pupils, but valuable to anyone interested in neurodivergence