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Natalia Sudeyko

Associate
Direct Phone: 604-983-7615

Email: [email protected]

Assistant: Chelsea Lightheart

Email: [email protected]

Areas of Practice

Areas of Focus

Education

  • B.A., University of Victoria, 2012
  • J.D., University of Victoria, 2017

Year Of Call

  • British Columbia, 2018

Awards & Accolades

  • Canadian Federation of University Women Bertha Wilson Scholarship
  • Bonnie Bryan Memorial Scholarship in Law

Interview on CBC As It Happens about BC Court of Appeal decision on private medical records, April 2023 (at 47:30)

Natalia is a talented legal advisor with a focus on Aboriginal law and litigation. She has experience on a wide range of files, including assisting First Nations with significant Aboriginal rights and title claims.

In addition, Natalia works with clients in the areas of:

  • Child welfare
  • Drafting and implementation of legislation
  • Treaty implementation
  • Specific claims
  • Justice system implementation

Natalia has appeared before the courts in British Columbia, the Federal Courts, and administrative tribunals such as the National Energy Board.

Natalia joined the firm as an articling student in 2017. In her spare time, Natalia can usually be found running, playing music, and hanging out with her cat.

Notable Experience

  • Counsel for the applicant grandparents seeking contact with a child in a case that established a child’s right to have access to their Indigenous culture from the earliest stages of life. This Provincial Court decision emphasized that exposure to the child’s Indigenous culture, language, history, traditions, and access to land is in a child’s best interest. [L.P. and D.P. v. C.C., 2022 BCPC 34]
  • Assisted on the first case in Canada to establish that Aboriginal fishing rights are a sufficient proprietary interest to ground a tort action in private nuisance. [Saik’uz and Stellat’en First Nations v. Rio Tinto Alcan et al., 2021 BCSC]
  • Teslin Tlingit Council v. Canada (AG), 2019 YKSC 3 – establishing that Canada has an obligation to negotiate a financial transfer agreement in accordance with Teslin Tlingit Council’s Final Agreement and Self-Government Agreement, particularly in relation to Teslin Tlingit Council Citizenship;

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Natalia is a talented legal advisor with a focus on Aboriginal law and litigation. She has experience on a wide range of files, including assisting First Nations with significant Aboriginal rights and title claims.

In addition, Natalia works with clients in the areas of:

  • Child welfare
  • Drafting and implementation of legislation
  • Treaty implementation
  • Specific claims
  • Justice system implementation

Natalia has appeared before the courts in British Columbia, the Federal Courts, and administrative tribunals such as the National Energy Board.

Natalia joined the firm as an articling student in 2017. In her spare time, Natalia can usually be found running, playing music, and hanging out with her cat.

Notable Experience

  • Counsel for the applicant grandparents seeking contact with a child in a case that established a child’s right to have access to their Indigenous culture from the earliest stages of life. This Provincial Court decision emphasized that exposure to the child’s Indigenous culture, language, history, traditions, and access to land is in a child’s best interest. [L.P. and D.P. v. C.C., 2022 BCPC 34]
  • Assisted on the first case in Canada to establish that Aboriginal fishing rights are a sufficient proprietary interest to ground a tort action in private nuisance. [Saik’uz and Stellat’en First Nations v. Rio Tinto Alcan et al., 2021 BCSC]
  • Teslin Tlingit Council v. Canada (AG), 2019 YKSC 3 – establishing that Canada has an obligation to negotiate a financial transfer agreement in accordance with Teslin Tlingit Council’s Final Agreement and Self-Government Agreement, particularly in relation to Teslin Tlingit Council Citizenship;

News, Publications & Presentations

Awards & Accolades

  • Canadian Federation of University Women Bertha Wilson Scholarship
  • Bonnie Bryan Memorial Scholarship in Law

Year Of Call

  • British Columbia, 2018

Education

  • B.A., University of Victoria, 2012
  • J.D., University of Victoria, 2017

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