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Don Montrichard

Contact Don Montrichard at dmontrichard@branmac.com or (604) 654-2951.

Don Montrichard is an associate with Branch MacMaster. Don articled and practiced as a litigator at a large national firm before joining Branch MacMaster in 2004. Don has both trial and appellate experience, and has appeared before the British Columbia Court of Appeal, the Supreme Court of British Columbia and the Provincial Court of British Columbia.

Don was called to the British Columbia Bar in 2002 and has been practicing exclusively in civil litigation since that time. He has both prosecuted and defended claims against medical and health professionals. Don has defended product liability claims, C.G.L. carriers, fire and property carriers and motor vehicle carriers. Don has also acted for the British Columbia Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals in a number of trial and appellate level matters.

Before attending law school, Don obtained a master's degree in international affairs from the Norman Paterson School of International Affairs in Ottawa. Don also lived and traveled in Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union.

Areas of Practice

• Class Actions
• Insurance
• Health & Medicine
• Regulatory and Quasi-Criminal

REPRESENTATIVE COUNSEL WORK

• Defence counsel in medical negligence actions
• Plaintiff's counsel in medical malpractice actions
• Plaintiffs' counsel in medical product liability class action
• General liability defence involving vehicles, premises, employee assault
• Plaintiff and defence counsel in civil proceedings related to the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals Act R.S.B.C. 1996, c. 372

DECISIONS WHERE COUNSEL

• British Columbia Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals v. Sudweeks [2002] B.C.J. No. 3270 (B.C.S.C.)
• British Columbia Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals v. Sudweeks [2002] B.C.J. No. 2081 (B.C.C.A.)
• Hilton v. General Motors of Canada Ltd. [2002] B.C.J. No. 2852 (B.C. Prov. Ct.)
• McDougall v. British Columbia Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals [2003] B.C.J. No. 3183 (B.C.S.C.)
• McDougall v. British Columbia Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals [2003] B.C.J. No. 2427 (B.C.S.C.)
• Eliason v. British Columbia Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals [2003] (unreported) Campbell River Registry No. S6560 (B.C.S.C.)
• Eliason v. British Columbia Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals [2004] B.C.J. No. 2852 (B.C.S.C.)
• Hoy v. Medtronic Inc. [2004] B.C.J. No. 676 (B.C.S.C.)
• McAnerin v. British Columbia Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals [2004] B.C.J. No. 2271 (B.C.S.C.)
• Toch v. Grove [2004] B.C.J. No. 2275 (B.C.S.C.)
• Pieper v. British Columbia Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals [2004] B.C.J. No. 2524 (B.C.S.C.)
• Camping v. British Columbia Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals [2004] (unreported) Williams Lake Registry No. 04-15842 (B.C.S.C.)
• Toch v. Grove [2005] B.C.J. No. 934 (B.C.S.C.)
• St. Marie v. British Columbia Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals [2005] B.C.J. No. 740 (B.C.S.C.)
• McAnerin v. British Columbia Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals [2005] B.C.J. No. 2951 (B.C.S.C.)
• Willey v. Ronik Security Ltd. and Voxcomm Incorporated [2006] B.C.J. No. 1533 (B.C.S.C.)
• 466888 B.C. Ltd. v. Ruttan & Municipality of the District of Sooke [2006] B.C.J. No. 1086 (B.C.Prov. Ct.)
• Van Dongen v. Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals [2006] B.C.J. No. 1823 (B.C. Prov. Ct.)
• Camping v. British Columbia SPCA [2006] B.C.J. No. 2865 (B.C.S.C.)
• Harfman & Harfman v. British Columbia Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals [2006] (unreported) Penticton Registry No. 27947 (B.C.S.C.)
• Baker v. British Columbia Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals [2006] B.C.J. No. 3414 (B.C.S.C.)
• Brugger-Dadis v. Bekins Moving and Storage ( Canada ) Ltd. [2007] (unreported) Vancouver Registry No. S056050 (B.C.S.C.)

Education

• B.A. University of British Columbia, 1995 (International Relations)
• M.A. Norman Paterson School of International Affairs, Carleton University, 1998(International Affairs)
• LL.B. University of British Columbia, 2001



• Admitted to the British Columbia Bar, June 2002

Professional Activities

• Co-author (with W. Branch), Exposing the Litigation Blackmail Myth, British Columbia CLE (February 25, 2005)
• Author, Contested Interlocutory Applications Before the Provincial Court of British Columbia, British Columbia CLE (September 30, 2005)
• Member of Civil Litigation, Insurance and Class Actions subsections of the British Columbia CBA
• Moot Court Judge, Russian National Rounds, Philip C. Jessup International Law Moot Court Competition (2004, 2005, 2006)
• Co-author (with W. Branch) “Litigation Blackmail: exposing the ‘litigation blackmail’ myth” (2005) Class Action Vol. IV, No. 1 (Federated Press Journals)

Community Activities

• British Columbia Mountaineering Club
• Alpine Club of Canada