Tammy Shoranick

Tammy advises clients on complex legal issues and provides legal analysis and research support across the firm’s practice areas. Tammy has a particular interest and expertise in Indigenous law, administrative law and appellate litigation. Tammy’s Indigenous law practice focuses on Aboriginal and constitutional law litigation and collaborating with Indigenous groups and governments to exercise their self-government rights. Tammy’s administrative law practice involves advising public administrative bodies and tribunals on legislative interpretation, questions of jurisdiction and policy issues.

Tammy has significant appellate experience at the Supreme Court of Canada and the BC Court of Appeal including:

Commercial law

• successfully representing the appellant in the leading Supreme Court of Canada case on contractual interpretation and judicial review of commercial arbitration awards, Sattva Capital Corp. v. Creston Moly Corp.
• successfully representing the respondent in an application to set aside an arbitral award for lack of jurisdiction in the BC Court of Appeal in lululemon Athletica Canada Inc. v Industrial Color Productions Inc.

Aboriginal and Constitutional Law

• representing the Council of Yukon First Nations as intervener in the Supreme Court of Canada in Attorney General of Québec, et al. v. Attorney General of Canada, et al. regarding the constitutionality of the federal Act respecting First Nations, Inuit and Métis children, youth and families, SC 2019, c 24. The intervener submissions by the Council of Yukon First Nations focus on the federal Government’s jurisdiction, pursuant to s. 91(24) of the Constitution Act, 1867, to put into practice decades of reconciliation rhetoric by legislating to afford Indigenous laws made further to both s. 35 self-government rights and s. 91(24) legislation with the status of federal law, and thus paramountcy over conflicting provincial laws, as it has done in ss. 21 and 22(3) of the Act.
• representing the Council of Yukon First Nations as intervener in the Supreme Court of Canada and the Yukon Court of Appeal in Cindy Dickson v. Vuntut Gwitchin First Nation regarding the application of the Charter to First Nations’ government, constitution and laws and the interpretation of s. 25 of the Charter. The intervener submissions by the Council of Yukon First Nations focus on the sui generis nature of Yukon First Nations self-government agreements and constitutions, and the need for such self-government agreements and constitutions to be protected by s. 25 of the Charter.
• representing the Secretariat of the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) as intervener in the Supreme Court of Canada in Canada (Attorney General) v. Bedford regarding the human rights impact of the criminalization of sex work.

Administrative law

• representing the British Columbia Utilities Commission in the BC Court of Appeal as respondent on multiple appeals regarding the interpretation of the Utilities Commission Act and the jurisdiction of the BCUC, including Coquitlam (City) v. British Columbia Utilities Commission.

Prior to joining Boughton Law, Tammy practiced commercial litigation at a national law firm in Vancouver and an international law firm in New York.