Catherine Li

Catherine Li is an associate lawyer with Lidstone & Company. She provides advice, representation, and drafting services to local governments. Catherine is developing a broad practice in municipal law and civil litigation including bylaw enforcement, judicial review, taxation and finance, information and privacy, and property disputes. She has appeared before the Civil Resolution Tribunal, the Residential Tenancy Branch, the Office of the Information and Privacy Commissioner, the Provincial Court of British Columbia, and the Supreme Court of British Columbia.

Catherine obtained her BA (Honours) in Psychology and law degree from the University of British Columbia. While at law school, she competed in the Environmental Law Moot and advised small businesses and non-profits through the Business Law Clinic. She also dedicated her time to volunteer for the Access Pro Bono Society of BC, where she drafted court documents for self-represented individuals and assessed the legal merits of files seeking pro bono legal representation in a wide variety of matters. In her final year, Catherine was a research assistant for a professor and assisted in preparing intervenor arguments in the appeal of a judicial review decision of a municipality’s housing bylaw.

When not in the office, Catherine enjoys playing badminton, trying new restaurants, and travelling with her husband. As a native of Wuhan, China, she is fluent in Mandarin Chinese.