Mark Henley > Park Square Barristers > Leeds, England > Barrister Profile

Mark Henley

0113 245 9763

Work Department

Personal Injury & Clinical Negligence, Family Finance and Regulatory & Public

Position

Personal Injury & Clinical Negligence
Mark is an experienced personal injury practitioner.

He acts for solicitors throughout England, for both Claimants and Defendants.

He has a wide experience of very high value personal injury claims (values of over 1 million), and in particular fatal accident and traumatic brain injury cases.

He has acted in dozens of fatal accident cases.

In 2007, 2010 and 2015 Mark was appointed by the Attorney General as Junior Counsel to the Crown (Regional Panel).  He undertakes civil work for government departments, including the Ministry of Justice such as Inquests and in fatal asbestos cases.

Mark also acts for the MIB.

He acts in a broad range of personal injury cases, including:

• Fatal accidents
• Road traffic
• Employer’s liability
• Public liability
• Industrial disease (including asbestos-related illness, industrial deafness, and HAVS)
• Clinical negligence
• Inquests (including Article 2, jury, inquests)

Family Finance
Mark is an experienced family finance and Trusts of Land practitioner.

He act in cases with a wide range of values (including cases which would formerly have qualified for public funding).

Before choosing to specialise in this area, he practised a number of years as a business and commercial barrister. This experience makes him the ideal choice for disputes involving businesses, partnerships and companies, complex accounts, and insolvency issues.

In 2007, 2010 and 2015 Mark was appointed by the Attorney General as Junior Counsel to the Crown (regional panel).

This allows him to be instructed by the Government Legal Service to undertake civil work for government departments and other publicly funded organisations: and, for example, he acts for

Mark specialises in financial disputes, and in particular:

• Matrimonial property (all aspects, including enforcement).
• Property disputes between cohabitants (ToLATA).
• Claims under Schedule I of the Children Act.

He is instructed in family finance cases involving very substantial assets, including disputed company and partnership valuations, disputed company and partnership accounts, disputed pension valuations (including SIPPs), and farm assets.

He is also a qualified Family Mediator, with hundreds of hours of mediation experience, and acts as a mediator in both child and money disputes.

Regulatory & Public
Mark has 25 years experience of Inquest work: including deaths in custody, those arising from  accidents in the workplace, deaths in care homes and road traffic collisions. He has experience of jury Inquests and those where Article 2 is engaged.

Has acted for Government Departments in Inquest since 2007, when he was first appointed as Junior Counsel to the Crown (Regional Panel) by the Attorney General (reappointed in 2010 and in 2015, now Regional Panel A).

Career

Call 1994

Appointments:
2007-2020
Treasury Counsel -currently Regional Panel A

2019
Deputy District Judge

Memberships

Treasury Counsel 2007-12; Personal Injury Bar Association (PIBA).

Education

Christ’s College, Cambridge (MA double first).