Craig Jones

First Year of Call

Areas of Practice
Public Law

Description
Craig Jones is associate counsel with Branch MacMaster LLP. He has a litigation and consultation practice focussing on public law and class actions. He authored Theory of Class Actions, a leading text in the field, and has appeared as counsel in a number of significant constitutional cases, public inquiries and reporting commissions, and judicial reviews.

Prior to joining Branch MacMaster, Craig was Supervising Counsel of the Constitutional and Administrative Law Group in the B.C. Ministry of Justice, and before that he was a partner at Bull, Housser & Tupper.

He holds a tenured faculty position at Thompson Rivers University, where he teaches torts, constitutional law, and legal ethics & professional conduct. He is a frequent lecturer on topics of tort, class actions, and constitutional law in British Columbia and across Canada.

In 2022 Craig was retained by the Attorney General of B.C. as General Counsel to the Premier. He will not be serving any other clients for the duration of this commitment.