The 2025 Professionalism Panel

Andrew is a partner in Gowling WLG's Ottawa office. Andrew's practice focuses on the defence of health care professionals in regulatory proceedings and civil litigation matters. In addition to having appeared in all levels of court in Ontario, he also regularly acts for health care professionals in discipline committee matters, hospital board proceedings, coroner's inquests and various other administrative tribunals. Andrew is a regular contributor and speaker at continuing medical-legal education programs. He is also a member of the Practice Advisory Groupfor the Ontario Physicians and Surgeons Discipline Tribunal. Andrew was called to the Ontario Bar in 2002 and is a member of the Law Society of Ontario. Andrew is also a member of the Law Society of Nunavut, having been called to the Nunavut Bar in 2003. He is a member of the Ontario Bar Association and the County of Carleton Law Association. Andrew is actively involved in continuing legal education programs and in the student program at Gowling WLG. He is a past instructor of trial advocacy at the University of Ottawa Faculty of Law and is a volunteer with ProBono Law Ontario.

Peter C. Wardle was elected as Treasurer by the Law Society’s governing body (Convocation) on June 19, 2024 and he took office on June 28, 2024. The Treasurer is the top-elected official of the Law Society, which regulates Ontario’s lawyers and paralegals in the public interest. He is the Law Society’s 70th Treasurer. Treasurer Wardle served as a bencher from 2011 to 2019 and was re-elected in 2023. He was called to the Bar of Ontario in 1986. He is a partner with the Commercial and Business Litigation and Professional Liability Practice Groups at Singleton Urquhart Reynolds Vogel LLP. Treasurer Wardle has built his reputation as a recognized and trusted advocate over more than 38 years, representing parties in commercial disputes involving contract interpretation, shareholder and partnership obligations, securities, directors’ and officers’ liability, professional negligence, construction, estates and real estate.

He has appeared as counsel in many trials, applications and appeals involving shareholder and partnership disputes, securities, directors’ and officers’ liability, professional negligence, wrongful dismissal, estates and real estate development, as well as a wide variety of contractual disputes. He has also participated as counsel and as arbitrator in a number of arbitrations involving commercial issues.

In addition, Treasurer Wardle has appeared before a wide variety of regulatory tribunals. He has prosecuted a number of discipline cases on behalf of the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario. He has acted in a number of public inquiries, including as counsel for a group of affected families before the Inquiry into Pediatric Forensic Pathology in Ontario and a citizens group in the Cornwall Public Inquiry. In 2022, he acted as lead counsel for the City of Ottawa in the Ottawa Light Rail Transit Public Inquiry. He is ranked by Best Lawyers for his work in directors’ and officers’ liability and securities litigation. He is recognized by LEXPERT for his professional liability practice and he is designated by Martindale-Hubbell as “AV® Preeminent™” — its highest peer review rating. His external appointments include: - Past director of The Advocates’ Society - Fellow of the International Academy of Trial Lawyers