Greg McMullen

Greg McMullen is a litigation associate with Branch MacMaster. He started with the firm in November 2010. Since then, he has focused on class action work on both plaintiff and defence sides, along with work in insurance defence and access to information. He is also an Executive Member-at-Large for the Class Actions section of the Canadian Bar Association BC Branch.

Before joining Branch MacMaster, Greg articled with the B.C. Civil Liberties Association, where he worked on a wide range of the Association's files, especially the BCCLA's work on the Military Police Complaints Commission and warrantless searches of personal electronics at the Canadian border.

During his MA work at the University of Calgary, Greg worked as a research assistant with Genome Prairie GE3LS, considering the socio-legal consequences of nano- and biotechnologies.

Contact Greg at gmcmullen@branmac.com or (604) 631-2560.

Areas of practice

Class actions
Privacy and access to information
Insurance

Education

JD University of British Columbia (2009)
MA Communications & Culture, University of Calgary (2006)
BA History and Multimedia, University of New Brunswick (2003)

Counsel work

King v Attorney General of Nova Scotia, unreported 2011 (NSSC) (successful certification and settlement approval of class action relating to an immigration scheme run by the Province of Nova Scotia, alleging, among other things, breach of trust, breach of Charter rights, and imposition of an unconstitutional tax).
Cuzzetto v Business in Motion Corporation et al, unreported 2011 (FC) (successful application for certification of a class action alleging that the defendants operated an illegal pyramid scheme, multilevel marketing scheme, or both, as defined in the Competition Act).

Publications and presentations

Co-author (with Ward Branch), “Take-Up Rates: The real measure of access to justice”, 8th Annual Symposium on Class Actions (Toronto: Osgoode Hall Law School of York University, 2011)
“Breaking the Trance? Enabling dissenting views on immortalism.” University of Alberta Health Law Review Vol. 15, Num. 1 (2006).
“Breaking the Pro-Death Trance: Reading immortalists’ representations of life extension technology.” Joint Biotechnology Workshop, Victoria BC, November 19, 2005.
“Rethinking Life Extension: Social representations of radical life extension.” Transvision 2005, Caracas, Venezuela, July 22-24, 2005.
“Social Representations of Life Extension Technology.” GE3LS Genome Prairie Symposium, Banff AB, June 14-15, 2005.
“Stakeholders and Technology: Challenges for Nanotechnology.” University of Alberta Health Law Review, Vol. 12, No. 3 (2004).