Ashley joined Investigation Counsel PC as an Articling Student in 2016 and completed her Articles with the firm before being called to the Bar in Ontario in June 2017. Ashley regularly represents clients in the Ontario Superior Court and has represented clients at other levels including Small Claims and the Court of Appeal for Ontario.
Education
Ashley completed her Juris Doctor at Bond University in the Gold Coast, Australia, where she graduated with Honours. While at law school, Ashley was placed on the Dean’s List for Academic Excellence and received various academic awards including the LexisNexis award for First in Class – Australian Constitutional Law and First in Class for Canadian Constitution Law.
Ashley previously obtained her Bachelor of Arts in Political Science and Economics from the University of Western Ontario.
Credentials and Experience
- Obtained judgment against an employee who operated a scheme to defraud her employer, and pursuing secondary defendants including family members who benefitted from the scheme;
- Obtained a Certificate of Pending Litigation against a property owned by a third-party beneficiary of a fraudulent scheme, involving complex legal theories of constructive trust, tracing and fraudulent conveyance law;
- Obtained extensive pre-action Norwich Pharmacal orders directed to various banks, cryptocurrency exchanges, payment services companies, and telecommunications companies for the production of records to assist the identification of defendants and tracing of funds in a large and multi-national cryptocurrency investment fraud scheme;
- Obtained and executed a unique Anton Piller Order to assist a large construction material supply company to recover their product, which was delivered and converted to a spouse and secret warehouse, in the context of a purported bankruptcy;
- Assisted a group of investors in a large international fraudulent investment scheme, including obtaining Mareva injunction, Norwich Pharmacal and Anton Piller Orders, as well as coordinating parallel litigation in South America, and obtaining partial judgment and orders to liquidate preserved assets in favour of the plaintiffs;
- Representation of a large multi-national cash management and logistics service provider in a cyber-crime phishing scheme, including obtaining Mareva injunction and Norwich Pharmacal orders, successfully obtaining the return of preserved assets from a bank account;
- Obtained declarations of contempt of court and corresponding custodial sentence against a judgment debtor who failed to comply with court orders regarding financial disclosure, transparency and accounting of defrauded funds;
- Obtained a Mareva Injunction on behalf of a client in the course of a fraud action when it was discovered that a defendant had begun selling and liquidating various real estate properties, where concerns over asset flight and fleeing the jurisdiction with the proceeds of sale were present;
- Representation of clients before the Bankruptcy Court to obtain orders to lift the statutory stay of proceedings in fraud and breach of trust cases;
- Obtained an order for summary judgment to dismiss all claims against a client. Defended the client at the Court of Appeal for Ontario, where the appeal was dismissed. Obtained Rule 2.1 orders to dismiss the proceedings due to vexatious conduct and abuse of process, and further successful defence at the Court of Appeal for Ontario to dismiss the appeal and uphold the finding of vexatious conduct and abuse of process;
- Obtained an order to strike the statement of defence of a defendant for failure to comply with court orders in an investment fraud action involving Mareva injunction and Anton Piller Orders, appeal by defendant dismissed at the Divisional Court;
- Obtaining Norwich Pharmacal orders for a foreign based corporation seeking production of bank records of Ontario based corporation following failed delivery of machinery;
- Successfully defending forum non conveniens and jurisdictional challenges on behalf of international clients;
- Assisting Norman Groot as lead counsel to the Respondents in the “Trucker Convoy” case of Li v. Barber et al. to successfully negotiate the appointment of an escrow agent and preservation order versus continuation of a Mareva injunction;
- Obtained pre-action tracing and accounting orders, and a Certificate of Pending Litigation over a residential property, in the context of a mixed investment and romance fraud scheme;
- Obtained a Mareva injunction and ancillary orders requiring asset declarations, accounting of proceeds of sale, and immediate examinations in the context of real estate development and construction venture fraud scheme;
- 1999269 Ontario Limited v. Gonzalo Aguiar, 2024 ONSC 835 (CanLII)
- Allen v. Kumar, 2023 ONSC 6239 (CanLII)
- 1999269 Ontario Limited et al v Aguiar et al, 2023 ONSC 3135 (CanLII)
- 1999269 Ontario Limited et al v. Aguiar et al, 2023 ONSC 787 (CanLII)
- Allen v. Kumar, 2022 ONSC 4223 (CanLII)
- RICO Enterprises Pty Ltd v. TD Canada Trust, 2022 ONSC 4558 (CanLII)
- Bacchus v. Munn, 2022 ONSC 6745 (CanLII)
- Hart v. Balice, 2022 ONCA 787 (CanLII)
- Wallace v. Pristine Developments, 2021 ONSC 2794 (CanLII),
- Woods v. Jahangiri, 2020 ONSC 7404 (CanLII)
- Boroni et al. v. Polidoro et al., 2018 ONSC 6631 (CanLII)
- Boroni v Polidoro, 2017 CanLII 47376 (ON SC)