Clea Parfitt is a sole practitioner working primarily in the areas of human rights and employment law. She has represented complainants before the B.C. Human Rights Tribunal in a wide range of complaints related to gender, sexual orientation, disability and place of origin. Clea is currently co-counsel in a substantial human rights complaint related to race and place of origin brought by a group of Indo-Canadian veterinarians against their regulatory body. She has also worked on complaints under the Canadian Human Rights Act, and appeared before the B.C. Supreme Court and Federal Court on judicial review. Earlier in her career Clea was co-counsel in a historical abuse case against the Crown involving a former child ward. She was active for more than a decade with the West Coast Domestic Workers Association, a non-profit organization involved in providing legal advice and advocacy for domestic workers in British Columbia. More recently she sat on the Board of PACE (Prostitution Alternatives Counselling and Education) Society, a frontline organization providing services and advocacy for survival sex workers. She is now a member of the West Coast LEAF legal committee. Clea obtained an LL.B from the University of British Columbia in 1991, and was called to the Bar in 1992.