Mark Henaghan

Henaghan attended school in Timaru and studied law at Otago University. On qualifying he became a teaching fellow, providing advice, helping with submissions, and training Family Court judges. He has never practised in a law firm.[1] He is involved in the Pathways and Transitions Research Project as part of the New Zealand Government funded Resilience Research Project.[2]

Henaghan is the second academic to be admitted as an Associate Fellow of the International Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers (IAML). The Academy is a worldwide association of practising lawyers who were recognised by their peers as being among the most experienced and skilled family law specialists in their respective countries.[3]

His interests have included surfing, cricket, rugby, biking, and skipping. He enjoys attending afternoon movie sessions and once had a cameo role in the New Zealand film Scarfies, as himself.

• Health professionals and trust: The cure for healthcare law and policy. New York: Routledge-Cavendish, 2011.
• Relocation cases: The rhetoric and the reality of a child's best interests: A view from the bottom of the world. Child & Family Law Quarterly, 23(2), pages 226–250 (2011)
• What does a child's right to be heard in legal proceedings really mean? ABA custody standards do not go far enough. Family Law Quarterly, 42(1), pages 117–129 (2008)
• Relationship property appeals in the New Zealand Court of Appeal 1958–2008: The elusiveness of equality. In R. Bigwood (Ed.), The permanent New Zealand Court of Appeal: Essays on the first 50 years (pages 99–151). Oxford: Henaghan, M., & Peart, N. (2009). Butterworths family law in New Zealand (15th ed.). Wellington, New Zealand: LexisNexis, (2011) Henaghan, M., Atkin, B., Clarkson, D., & Caldwell, J.
• Genes, society and the future (Vol. 2). Dunedin, New Zealand: Human Genome Research Project, University of Otago, Lawson, D., Henaghan, M., & McLean, S. (2007)
• Why judges need to know and understand childhood studies. In M. Freeman (Ed.), Law and childhood studies: Current legal issues 2011 (Vol. 14) (pages 39–54), Oxford University Press, (2012)
• Discretion, status and money: The essence of family law in New Zealand. In B. Atkin (Ed.), The international survey of family law: 2011 edition (pages 281–301). Bristol, UK: Family Law.
• New Zealand: How New Zealand family law deals with power imbalances. In B. Atkin (Ed.), International survey of family law: 2010 edition (pages 237–254). Bristol, UK: Family Law.
• The human genome. In I. Freckelton & H. Selby (Eds.), Appealing to the future: Michael Kirby and his legacy (pages 473–486). Sydney, Australia: Thomson Reuters (2011)
• Achieving economic equality at the end of marriage and other relationships: Not all is fair in love and war. In B. Verschraegen (Ed.), International family law (pages 695–708). Vienna, Austria: Jan Sramek Verlag. (2009)
• Bioethics and law in action: Mining the gaps: The Human Genome Research Project. In M. Freeman (Ed.), Law and bioethics: Current legal issues (Vol. II) (pages 225–237). Oxford University Press (2008).
• Preimplantation genetic diagnosis: Testing the legal boundaries. In N. Page (Ed.), Genes, society and the future (Vol. 1) (pp. 27–146). Dunedin, New Zealand: Human Genome Research Project, University of Otago. Snelling, J., Peart, N., & Henaghan, M. (2007)
• Part one: Main findings:. In N. Page (Ed.), Genes, society and the future (Vol. 1) (pp. 1–24). Dunedin, New Zealand: Human Genome Research Project, University of Otago. Henaghan, M. (2007).
• Legally rearranging families: Parents and children after break up. In M. Henaghan and B. Atkin (Ed.), Family law policy in New Zealand (3rd ed.) (pp. 269–360). Wellington, New Zealand: LexisNexis. Henaghan, M. (2007).
• Legally defining the family. In M. Henaghan and B. Atkin (Ed.), Family law policy in New Zealand (3rd ed.) (pp. 1–46). Wellington, New Zealand: LexisNexis. Henaghan, M. (2007).
• The 'Do no harm' principle and the genetic revolution in New Zealand. In McLean, S. A. M. (Ed.), First do no harm: Law, ethics and healthcare (pp. 511–526). Aldershot, UK: Ashgate. Henaghan, M. (2006).
• Family law policy in New Zealand (3rd ed.). Wellington, New Zealand: LexisNexis, 367p. Henaghan, M., & Atkin, B. (Eds.). (2007).
• Choosing genes for future children: Regulating preimplantation genetic diagnosis. Dunedin, New Zealand: Human Genome Research Project, University of Otago, 369p. Henaghan, M. (Ed.). (2006).
• The changes to final appeals in New Zealand since the creation of the New Zealand Supreme Court. Otago Law Review, 12(3), 579–604. Henaghan, M. (2011).
• Delays in the New Zealand civil justice system? Opinion v fact. Otago Law Review, 12(3), 455–471. Righarts, S., & Henaghan, M. (2011).
• Children: Heard but not listened to? An analysis of children's views under s 6 of the Care of Children's Act 2004. New Zealand Family Law Journal, 7(2), 39–52. Robinson, A., & Henaghan, M. (2011).
• Relocation cases: The rhetoric and the reality of a child's best interests: A view from the bottom of the world. Child & Family Law Quarterly, 23(2), 226–250. Henaghan, M. (2011).
• Relocation following parental separation in New Zealand: Complexity and diversity. International Family Law, (March), 97–105. Taylor, N., Gollop, M., & Henaghan, M. (2010).
• Public perceptions of the New Zealand court system: An empirical approach to law reform. Otago Law Review, 12(2), 329–344. Righarts, S., & Henaghan, M. (2010).
• Legal responses to violence in the home in New Zealand. University of New South Wales Law Journal, 33(3), 870–894. Henaghan, M., & Ballantyne, R. (2010).
• What does a child's right to be heard in legal proceedings really mean? ABA custody standards do not go far enough. Family Law Quarterly, 42(1), 117–129. Henaghan, M. (2008).
• Digital era subverts suppression, interviewed by Timothy Brown in Otago Daily Times about Queenstown suppressed indecency case (July 2014)
• Henaghan, Mark; Reynolds, Siobhan (2020). "The use of trusts and trust litigation as a form of financial abuse in Aotearoa/New Zealand and what to do about it" (PDF). Australian Journal of Family Law. 33: 303–325. Retrieved 24 August 2023. Identifier: hdl.handle.net/2292/54954.

• University of Otago staff webpage