Susan Precious

Susan Precious is a senior associate at Branch MacMaster.  She joined the firm in 2007.  Her litigation practice focuses primarily on health law and insurance defence. She also practices in the areas of class action and employment law.

Prior to working for Branch MacMaster, Susan was a litigation associate with Stewart McKelvey Stirling Scales in Halifax. She also worked in South Africa for three years as the programme manager of the AIDS and Human Rights Research Unit at the University of Pretoria, Faculty of Law, and as part of the strategic litigation team at Lawyers for Human Rights.

Susan is fluent in French.

Contact Susan Precious at sprecious@branmac.com or 604 654-2959

Areas of Practice

• Health Law, Class actions, Product Liability and Insurance
• Employment

Education

• LL.M. Public International Law, London School of Economics, UK (2002)
• LL.B. Dalhousie University (2001)
• M.A. History, Queens University (1998)
• B.A. Honours History and Political Studies, Mount Allison University (1997)

Representative Experience

• Blueberry Interim Trust (Re), 2011 BCSC 769
• Pratt v. Fraser Health Authority (c.o.b. Burnaby Hospital) 2007 BCSC 1731

Professional Memberships and Activities

• Member of Executive Committee of Canadian Bar Association (BC) Health Law Subsection
• Admitted to British Columbia Bar, 2007
• Admitted to Nova Scotia Barristers Society, 2004
• Member, Canadian Bar Association

Counsel Work

• Counsel for health authority, health profession organizations, and health practitioners in matters dealing with scope of practice, medical malpractice, employment and discipline; counsel for private individuals in relation to out of country medical claims
• Liability defence counsel
• Counsel for plaintiffs and defendants in class actions
• Counsel for private college

Publications

• Co-authored (with Ward Branch), "Strategic Use of Case Management", (September 21, 2011), CLEBC
• Co-authored (with Ward Branch), "Top Ten Cases from the ROC from the 2007-2008 Class Action Season", in Troisieme Colloque sur les Recours Collectifs, Actes de la Formation Juridique Permanente 2008 volume 2 (Quebec: Les Editions Yvon Blais Inc., 2008) p.109-129.
• Co-author (with Ward Branch), "Cross Canada Check-up: BC cases from April 2007 to April 2008", 5th Annual Symposium on Class Actions (Toronto:Osgoode Hall Law School of York University, 2008).
• Co-author (with Dr. Frans Viljoen) A Review of Regional and National Human Rights Based HIV and AIDS Policies and Frameworks in Eastern and Southern Africa, commissioned by the United Nations Development Programme-Regional Service Centre (UNDP) and the Office of the High Commissioner of Human Rights-Southern Africa Regional Office (OHCHR) as part of the OHCHR and UNDP joint initiative on human rights, gender and HIV and AIDS in Southern and Eastern Africa (February 2007)
• Co-author (with Ward Branch), "Intervention: The Need for Aggressive Case Management", Civil Litigation Conference - 2007.
• Co-editor (with Frans Viljoen) Human Rights under Threat: Four Perspectives on HIV, AIDS and the law in Southern Africa (Pretoria: PULP, 2007).

Volunteer and Community Work

• Susan volunteers her time with the British Columbia Civil Liberties Association