About
Aleem Bharmal, KC is a human rights lawyer with the Community Legal Assistance Society (CLAS) and was its former Executive Director for 12 years from late 2007 to to the end of 2019. Aleem was called to the bar in 1995 and has practiced human rights law for over 20 years. Aleem has been a presenter on human rights, social justice, access to justice and legal ethics issues and has chaired or been on the executive of a number of Canadian Bar Association, BC Branch (CBABC) sections and committees. He is also a CBABC law student mentor with the UBC Allard School of Law, his alma mater.In late 2015, Aleem and his co-counsel, Clea Parfitt, won a very lengthy, high-profile racial discrimination case involving Indo-Canadian veterinarians in BC. In 2019, Aleem was appointed King’s Counsel by the Attorney General of BC in recognition of his major contributions to the law in the province.