History

   In 19th century, Taiwan was governed by China, the Qing Dynasty. At the end of The First Sino-Japanese War, the Treaty of Shimonoseki signed on 17 April 1895. Taiwan was then ceded to Japan. In Japanese colonial period, modern western juridical system and the hierarchy of the judiciary system was introduced to Taiwan. The juridical system several changes during Japanese governing, but three Courts were established and maintained in Taiwan: Taipei, Taichung, and Tainan.

 

First Tainan court office were at the Tong-an-hong(the former Qing Anping County school, now Fuqian Rd and Wanchang St. intersection). In 1910, a new court office started to build at the former Qing Mabingying site, where at present stands in No. 307, Sec. 1, Fuqian Rd., Tainan City. This baroque style building had been designated and used as the Court office for ninety years, which is still the oldest court building in Taiwan. This baroque style roof and colorful Victorian style geometric floor, was created by Mariyama Matsunosuke(森山松之助) is now the Judicial Museum.

 

In 2001, the Court office moved to a modern building in An-ping District. Tainan Bar Association moved there as well. In 2015, Judicial Yuan announced that Court office shall not provide spaces for (local) bar association; thus Tainan Bar Association moved to current office, 16F.-4, No. 248, Sec. 2, Yonghua Rd., Anping Dist., Tainan City. The opening ceremony were hold on 20th November, 2017.  

 

Since 1900, Tainan Bar Association organized by lawyers within Tainan Court district. An oval-shaped meeting table were place inside the TBA at that time. This historical table is now an Antique and still in use at present (place in Tainan Court lawyer lounge).

In 1945, the Second World War came to an end, the Japanese retreated from Taiwan. The 5 Bar Association (Taipei, Hsinchu, Taichung, Tainan, Kaohsiung) were all dissolved. The government of Republic of China took over Taiwan and at 1948 the Attorney Regulation Act comes into effect, Tainan Bar Association (re)establish. The members stared from 17 attorneys (1948) to 1903 attorneys(2019), and now 1095(2020). The reducing of the members due to the Attorney Regulation Act modify in 2020, “those who wish to practice law may select only one local bar association as the local bar association to which they belong” (Article 11). Join several local bar associations in order to practice in several district court is no longer necessary.

 

The representatives’ meeting of the Bar Association held annually. There are fifteen Directors and five Supervisors as Board member seats in TBA (the Board member seats shall be elected by representatives, each of which represents ten memberships of the Bar Association). Five Managing Directors and one Executive Supervisor are elected among the Board member seats. Chairman of the Bar Association is elected among the Managing Directors by the Directors. All Board member seats shall be elected for a term of two years without any payment, and incumbent board members maybe re-elected for one additional term of office. The Board meeting shall be held monthly. One Secretary-General and several Deputy-Secretary-Generals are appointed to operate daily affairs of the Bar Association without any payments. The staffs of the Bar Association include a secretary and five clerks.

 

In order to operate the Bar Association, there are committees and clubs set by the Board as below, the conveners of which are chosen among Directors, Supervisors or enthusiastic members:

(01) Legal Aid Center: the members take turns to do pro bono Legal consultation.

(02) Ethics And Conduct Committee

(03) International Exchange Committee

(04) “Lawyers In Tainan Monthly”Editorial Committee

(05) Sexual-Harassment Compliant Arbitration Committee

(06) Website Management Committee

(07) Legal Research Committee

(08) Public Relations Committee

(09) Legal Knowledge Promotion Committee

(10) Legal Practice Research Committee

(11) Academic Committee

(12) Welfare Committee

(13) Cross-Strait Exchange Committee

(14) Judicia Reform Committee

(15) Culture and Art Committee

(16) Consumer Protection Committee

(17) Golf Club

(18) Softball Club

(19) Badminton Club

(20) Ta-Chi Club

(21) Mountain-Climbing Club

(22) Wind Music Club

(23) Erhu Club

(24) Basketball Club

(25) Criminal Procedural Right Safeguard Committee

(26) Table Tennis Club

(27)Board Game Club

 

TBA publishes “Lawyers in Tainan Monthly” on a monthly basis. It contains local judicial news in Tainan area, national judicial news, commentary on laws, legal writings, introductions of new members, minutes of the Board meeting, traveling reports, literary articles and so forth.

 

The Website of the Bar Association contains Newsletters, Announcements, Latest Updates, Introduction of TBA, Bylaw, Lawyers in Tainan Monthly, Address book of members, Members Bulletin, Documents Download, Points for Attention of Litigation, Legal Aid Center, Schedules of hearings and etc..

 

 

(臺灣總督府法院 – 維基百科，自由的百科全書 (wikipedia.org))

 

偏門研究員 KUN: 從文廟到法院—初代臺南地方法院(kunchentaiwan.blogspot.com)

 

Judicial Museum (Former Tainan District Court)(司法博物館(原台南地方法院)) | Tainan Travel (twtainan.net)

 

Tainan Bar Association 
Address：16F.-4, No. 248, Sec. 2, Yonghua Rd., Anping Dist., Tainan City 708008 , Taiwan (R.O.C.)

Tel：(06)298-7373
Fax：(06)298-8383
E-mail：tnnbar@tnnbar.org.tw

Staff of the Association
Secretary：Ms.Han-Hsin Huang
Clerks-1：Ms.Yuan-Chi Yang、Ms.Ya-Chun Liu、 Ms.Chi-Feng Cheng
Clerks-2：Ms.Tsai-Chun Chiang