The Soloway Wright LLP partner has been assigned to Ottawa
Soloway Wright LLP partner André Ashley Ducasse has joined the Ontario Superior Court of Justice as an associate judge.
He begins sitting on June 11. Associate chief justice Faye McWatt has assigned Ducasse to Ottawa.
Ducasse’s practice has focused on banking, insolvency and restructuring litigation, insurance litigation, and commercial litigation. He has worked on matters involving complex insolvencies, receiverships, restructurings, shareholder remedies and disputes, franchise disputes, commercial tenancies, personal injury and property claims, claims against directors and officers and errors and omissions claims.
His clients have included chartered banks, credit unions, trust companies, and licensed insolvency trustee firms. In 2001, he got his start in law as an associate with Gowling Lafleur Henderson LLP.
Ducasse moved to Borden Ladner Gervais LLP in 2003 and made partner there in 2011. In 2015, he jumped to Soloway Wright LLP.
He is fluent in both English and French. He has acted for clients in the Ontario Superior Court of Justice and served as independent legal counsel to court-appointed officers in receivership proceedings. He has appeared at all levels of court in Ontario, including commercial list proceedings.
Ducasse holds a baccalaureate of laws (French common law section) and a master of arts in international affairs, obtained through the joint program at the University of Ottawa’s Faculty of Law and Carleton University’s Norman Paterson School of International Affairs. He is part of the County of Carleton Law Association and the Law Society of Ontario.
Ontario attorney general Doug Downey announced Ducasse’s appointment. Last November 2025, Crown Law Office - Civil deputy director Jeremy Glick also became an associate judge with the Ontario Superior Court of Justice, sitting in Milton. Paul J. Barnes, who taught the first-ever insurance law course at Toronto Metropolitan University’s Lincoln Alexander School of Law, began sitting as an associate judge in Toronto on January 29.
In March, the Ontario Superior Court of Justice welcomed Scott G. Pratt, Cheryl C.M. Siran, Constance Nielsen, Stephanie J. Ouellette, and Sean D.R. Heeley to the bench as judges. Last month, J.C. André Lehoux was also appointed as a judge of the court, sitting in Haileybury.
