Ross and McBride Law Firm

Featuring David Baker's Canadian Human Rights Commission (CHRC) Paper:

Accommodation for environmental sensitivities : legal perspective / By Cara Wilkie and David Baker.https://publications.gc.ca/site/eng/332178/publication.html 

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About David Baker

https://www.rossmcbride.com/Lawyers/David-Baker

David was active in securing the inclusion of persons with disabilities in human rights legislation and in the Charter of Rights and Freedoms. His LL.M. thesis, published in the Supreme Court Law Review, served as a blueprint for Charter litigation. David then pursued real equality as counsel in a series of cases before the Supreme Court of Canada, from O’Malley and Andrews to Eldridge, Grismer and Lovelace. “Canada’s jurisprudence is the envy of equality-seekers around the world. Based on precedents that have already been set, many existing barriers will be found to be discriminatory,” he says.

David has been at the forefront of a remarkable process of legislative reform. Regrettably, recent political setbacks have moved much of the struggle for equality back to the courts, to labour boards and to human rights tribunals. “My energies at Ross & McBride will be committed to furthering the rights and interests of the disadvantaged while at the same time defending what has already been achieved.”

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David has provided training for judges and has lectured at law schools and to seminars for the legal profession. At the international level, David has served on the UNESCO Panel of International Human Rights Experts. For his work at ARCH and his contribution to the legal profession, David was awarded the Law Society Medal in 1998.

David is working with a like-minded group of dedicated counsel to continue his Charter of Rights and Freedoms and human rights practice. David is available to clients with employment, education, transportation, mental health, occupation health and safety, class action, income security, automobile injury insurance, disability rights insurance problems, and compensation issues.

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David will continue his active government relations practice and will continue to serve as an advisor to boards and commissions. David also designs and presents seminars for trade unions, equality-seeking groups and professional organizations on a wide range of equality rights and workplace topics, including the duty to accommodate.

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Ros Salvador Law 
EHSLawyer.ca and RosSalvadorLaw.ca

An Ontario social justice and human rights oriented law firm supporting individuals and
families experiencing human rights violations and seeking disability justice.

Ros is an approachable, trauma-informed lawyer who has practiced human rights law
for over a decade and spent five years specifically working to advance human rights in
the education system. Ros is a long-time advocate for people with electromagnetic
hypersensitivity (“EHS”). Drawing on their professional expertise and their own lived
experience with environmental illness, Ros has provided legal support to many
individuals and families facing barriers at school, in the workplace, in housing, in
services, and in seeking to access income supports.

Ros’ has represented individuals before human rights tribunals, social benefits tribunals,
in tenancy matters, in judicial (court) reviews of tribunal decisions, in court cases
asserting equality rights under the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms, and
more.

Ros has developed and delivered training on human rights law and disability justice for
individuals at all levels of the education system including students, parents, teachers,
school administrators and directors of education, as well as drafting inclusive policies for
school boards.

Ros Salvador is licensed by the Law Society of Ontario.

 

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