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{{Infobox Organization
| name = Golaghat Bar Association
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| formation = {{Start date and age|1891|df=y}}
| type = Legal Society
| headquarters = [[Golaghat]]
| location = [[Assam]], [[India]]
| membership =
| language = [[English language|English]], [[Assamese language|Asamiya]]
| secretary_general = Prodyut Madhab Dutta
| leader_title = President
| leader_name = Dipom Ranjan Handique
| leader_title2 = Vice-president
| leader_name2 = Nitul Bora
| leader_title3 = Secretary General (Asst.)
| leader_name3 = Nazrul Islam
| leader_title4 = Library Secretary
| leader_name4 = Pratul Borbora
| founders = G. Baruah <br> K. P. Dowarah
| key_people =
| affiliations = [[Bar Council of India]] (BCI)
| num_staff = 500
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| website = {{URL|http://golaghatjudiciary.gov.in/bar_association.html|GBA}}
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{{Courts of India}}
The '''Golaghat Bar Association''' or '''GBA''',<ref>{{cite news| url=https://www.assamtimes.org/node/6994|title=Five advocates suspended from Golaghat Bar Association|work=AssamTimes.org|date=3 August 2012}}</ref> is a voluntary [[bar association]] for the Golaghat Higher Judiciary<ref>{{cite news| url=http://golaghatjudiciary.gov.in/about_us.html|title=About Golaghat District Judiciary}}</ref><ref>{{cite news| url=http://www.tenderdetail.com/Indian-Tenders/TenderNotice/5735929/05114784-989b-4e4a-8587-a1725ff7cea6$construction-of-higher-judicial-court-building-at-golaghat-assam|title=Construction of Higher Judicial Court Building at Golaghat, Assam|date=19 February 2014}}</ref> in [[Golaghat]], [[Assam]]. The goals of the association is to regulate the legal practice and legal education in Golaghat and to cultivate the science of jurisprudence; to promote reform in the law; to facilitate the administration of justice, and to elevate the standards of integrity, honor, professional skill, and courtesy in the legal profession, including exercising disciplinary jurisdiction over the bar.<ref>{{cite news| url=https://www.assamtimes.org/node/6994|title=Five advocates suspended from Golaghat Bar Association|work=AssamTimes.org|date=3 August 2012}}.</ref> Its members are elected amongst the lawyers in Golaghat Judiciary <ref>{{cite news| url=http://aala.co.in/about.html|title=Newly Elected Office Bearers of AALA at Golaghat 13th Biennial Conference Held On 8th, 9th & 10th February, 2013}}</ref>

==History ==
GBA was founded in 1891, Golaghat, Assam after the ''Sadar [[Courts of India|Courts]]'' were extended to Golaghat in 1839.<ref>{{cite news| url=http://sivasagarjudiciary.gov.in/data/barassociation.html| title=Bar Association| archive-date=16 July 2013| access-date=1 February 2017| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130716011821/http://sivasagarjudiciary.gov.in/data/barassociation.html| url-status=dead}}</ref> The founding members namely, ''G. Baruah'' and ''K. P. Dowarah'', along with other lawyers during that time felt the need to institutionalize the practice of taking proper action on all matters affecting the legal profession and the administration of justice, essential for the benefit of litigant citizens of Golaghat.<ref>{{cite news| url=http://golaghatjudiciary.gov.in/bar_association.html|title=History of Golaghat Bar Association}}</ref>

GBA formed before [[Indian Independence Day|India's independence of 1947]], has played a significant role during [[India's freedom struggle]]. Advocate members of the GBA, namely ''Gangadhar Borthakur'' and ''Kamleswar Sarma'' boycotted courts and joined the [[Quit India Movement]] in 1921. The lawyers were pronounced guilty for their participation in the movement, and that emanated mass protests from the citizens of Golaghat near Golaghat Jail.<ref>
{{cite news| url=https://books.google.com/books?id=gZmusO1pWjUC&q=Student%27s+Awakening+in+Golaghat|title=Quit India Movement In Assam, Quit India and Student and Women Movements in Golaghat District|work=By Anil Kumar Sharma. page 114|date=2007|isbn=9788183242424|last1=Sharma|first1=Anil Kumar}}</ref> ''Maheshwar Barooah'' and ''Tara Prasad Barooah'', brothers from the same family, who prosecuted their [[LLB|law]] studies in [[Gauhati]]<ref>{{cite news| url=https://books.google.com/books?id=gZmusO1pWjUC&q=advocates+of+golaghat+bar|title=Quit India Movement In Assam, Quit India and Student and Women Movements in Golaghat District - ''Student's Awakening in Golaghat''|work=By Anil Kumar Sharma. page 113|date=2007|isbn=9788183242424|last1=Sharma|first1=Anil Kumar}}</ref> and later practised law in Golaghat Judiciary, and were GBA members, were boycotted for their participation in the movement as they took to streets serving as vegetable vendors in the local market and labourers at Golaghat Station to propagate the concept of self-dependence,<ref>{{cite news| url=https://books.google.com/books?id=gZmusO1pWjUC&q=Gangadhar+Borthakur|title=Quit India Movement In Assam, Quit India and Student and Women Movements in Golaghat District|work=By Anil Kumar Sharma, page 114|date=2007|isbn=9788183242424|last1=Sharma|first1=Anil Kumar}}</ref> the premise of the Quit India Movement.
==Present==
With an increase in the overall enrolment of its members from 350 in 2014,<ref>{{cite news| url=https://www.telegraphindia.com/1140218/jsp/northeast/story_17949014.jsp#.WJCQwbaLQcg| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171009092517/https://www.telegraphindia.com/1140218/jsp/northeast/story_17949014.jsp#.WJCQwbaLQcg| url-status=dead| archive-date=9 October 2017|title=Lawyers' forum boycotts court, ''The Telegraph - Calcutta - Gauhati''|work=Ritupallab Saikia|date=17 February 2014|accessdate=18 February 2014}}</ref> to the present number of 500 members,<ref>{{cite news| url=http://www.sentinelassam.com/story.php/news/2/gba-celebrates-125-years/2017-09-09/1/319703?sec=news&subsec=2&news_name=gba-celebrates-125-years&dtP=2017-09-09&ppr=1&id=319703#.WdqrExNSwcg|title=GBA celebrates 125 years, ''The Sentinel (Gauhati)''|work=Staff Reporter|date=9 September 2017|accessdate=9 October 2017}}</ref> GBA has had a growth in its infrastructure facilities to even include a [[Day care|crèche]] and [[Gym|gymnasium]]. It has recently celebrated its quasquicentennial ceremony in September 2017.<ref>{{cite news| url=https://www.telegraphindia.com/1170908/jsp/northeast/story_171404.jsp| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171009092522/https://www.telegraphindia.com/1170908/jsp/northeast/story_171404.jsp| url-status=dead| archive-date=9 October 2017|title=Bar facilities, ''The Telegraph (Calcutta – Gauhati)''|work=Ritupallab Saikia|date=7 September 2017|accessdate=8 September 2017}}</ref>
== Activities ==
GBA has been facilitating the administration of justice for approximately 1.1 million people of [[Golaghat district]], and plays an active role in regulating the legal practice and extending courtesy in the legal profession. The forum had refrained its members in the past from appearing before the court of the subdivisional judicial magistrate (SDJM), [[Titabor]] as a mark of protest against the detention of one of its members in the court [[Jail|cell]] allegedly without following norms. The association demanded appropriate action from the highest judiciary of the state, [[Gauhati High Court]] as the treatment by SDJM was against established procedure of law, violating human rights and dignity.<ref>{{cite news| url=https://www.telegraphindia.com/1140218/jsp/northeast/story_17949014.jsp#.WJCQwbaLQcg| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171009092517/https://www.telegraphindia.com/1140218/jsp/northeast/story_17949014.jsp#.WJCQwbaLQcg| url-status=dead| archive-date=9 October 2017|title=Lawyers' forum boycotts court, ''The Telegraph - Calcutta - Gauhati''|work=Ritupallab Saikia|date=17 February 2014|accessdate=18 February 2014}}</ref> Previously, GBA had also suspended five of its member advocates in 2012 at an executive meeting on account of alleged professional misconduct under the registered case – ''GR Case No. 587/12''.<ref>{{cite news| url=https://www.assamtimes.org/node/6994|title=Advocates suspended, Assam Times}}</ref>

To promote reform in the law, GBA actively participates in protests and demonstrations, including [[United Progressive Alliance|UPA]]'s injustice to [[Baba Ramdevji|Baba Ramdev]], besides encouraging [[Anna Hazare]]’s movement for [[Jan Lokpal Bill]].<ref>{{cite news| url=https://www.assamtimes.org/node/4928|title=Golaghat Bar Association observs sit-in-demonstration in support of Anna Hazare|work=Ritupallab Saikia|date=9 June 2011}}</ref>

The association has been vocal on social security issues. It had condemned [[2008 Assam bombings|Assam serial bombings of 2008]] by organising a silent [[peace march]].<ref>{{cite news| url=https://www.assamtimes.org/node/4928|title=Silent Peach March taken out by Golaghat Bar Association|work=Ritupallab Saikia|date=4 November 2008}}</ref>

GBA has been contributing to legal studies and education through Golaghat Law College since 1979. The college is affiliated to [[Dibrugarh University]], and the law programme is approved by [[Bar Council of India]] (BCI), [[New Delhi]], [[India]].<ref>{{cite news| url=http://www.highereducationinindia.com/institutes/golaghat-law-college-2197.php|title=Golaghat Law College}}</ref>
== Structure ==
GBA has an Executive Committee that changes every two years. The executive members constitute the following positions:
*President
*Vice-president
*Secretary General
*Secretary General (Asstt.)
*Library Secretary
*Auditor
*Treasurer
== See also==
*[[Bar Council of India]]
*[[Gauhati High Court]]
*[[Golaghat]]
== References ==
{{Reflist}}
[[Category:Bar associations of Asia]]
[[Category:Legal organisations based in India]]
[[Category:1891 establishments in India]]
[[Category:Organizations established in 1891]]
[[Category:Organisations based in Golaghat]]
[[Category:Golaghat district]]

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