David Baker

The Canadian Human Rights Tribunal has ordered that Air Canada must reinstate Bakerlaw clients George Vilven and Neil Kelly, pilots who have been fighting to return to work and fly beyond Air Canada’s retirement age of 60.

Click here to read the Globe and Mail’s coverage of the story.

Click here to read coverage in the Toronto Star.

The Law Times has published an editorial in support of Bakerlaw client Donna Jodhan's Charter of Rights challenge against the Federal Government over websites that are inaccessible to blind and partially sighted web users.

"The government should drop its reluctance and heed Jodhan’s call for improved accessibility," writes Glenn Kauth, the author of the editoral. "As the online world grows in importance, there’s no justification for leaving people with disabilities behind."

Click here to view the full editorial on the Law Times website.

Donna Jodhan's web accessibility Charter Challenge against the Federal Government has been covered by a number of major media outlets. Bakerlaw's David Baker and Meryl Gary are in Federal Court from September 21st-23rd arguing Ms. Jodhan's case.

The governments of many countries, including the United States, EU member states and Australia have already made their websites accessible to blind users. Canada's Federal Government is refusing to follow suit, despite the fact that accessible sites are easy and inexpensive to build and maintain.

Bakerlaw will soon be headed to federal court with client Donna Jodhan. Jodhan, who is among approximately 10 per cent of the population with vision disabilities, is asking the government to provide vision impaired Canadians with equal access to government information and services online. Bakerlaw hopes to compel the government to update its web accessibility standards and ensure its websites are accessible to all Canadians.

Bakerlaw has received more than 850 new documents from federal lawyers in the case of firm client Benamar Benatta. As CTV news today reported, the disclosure of hundreds of new pages of information spanning several years comes despite previous assurances there were no further records relevant to the case.

Click here to read more at CTV.ca.

The Federal Court of Appeal has ruled in favour of Bakerlaw client, the West Toronto Diamond Community Group. The decision upholds a previous Canadian Transportation Agency ruling stating that residents of the Junction area were suffering undue harm as a result of pile driving by GO Transit in the West Toronto Diamond Grade Seperation Project.

Click here to read more from InsideToronto.com.

Bakerlaw lawyer Nicole Chrolavicius appears on CTV's Canada AM with client Benamar Benatta. To view the clip, "Seeking an Apology: Benamar Benatta Speaks of His Ordeal of Being Tortured and Wrongly Imprisoned" click here.