VPRS 5656 Court Of Petty Sessions Police/Arrest Registers

Successive Justices' Acts and, more recently, Magistrates' Court Acts have required the clerk or registrar of the court to make and keep a register of all convictions, orders and other proceedings of the court. This register is the authoritative record of the court. Until about 1888 this record was usually called a Cause List Book and had a slightly different format; since then the term Register has been used.In many courts, particularly larger ones, clerks have maintained several sequences of registers according to different types of matters dealt with by the court. Police/Arrest Registers record details of criminal cases where the defendant was arrested by the police and brought by them to court. (The other main mechanism for commencing criminal cases and bringing defendants to court was by summons.)Police/Arrest Registers are generally in the same format as all other Petty Sessions Registers, giving details of the case number, the name of the prosecutor or informant, the name of the accused or defendant, how the case came to the court (in all cases this would state "arrest") the fees or court costs accrued, a description of the charge, cause or proceeding, the decision or order and any remarks. The column for remarks was often used to record the payment of fines and fees.In order to authenticate entries made in the register the presiding officer(s) of the court signed the register at the end of each day.The volumes in the P1 consignment of this series were originally documented as another series, VPRS 10582. The records were reprocessed to become part of this series during 2014.

历代《司法官法案》以及近年的《治安法院法案》均要求法院书记员或登记员制作并保存一份记录法院所有定罪、命令及其他诉讼程序的登记簿。该登记簿是法院的权威记录。直至1888年左右，此类记录通常被称为‘案件清单簿’，格式略有不同；此后则统一使用‘登记簿’这一术语。在许多法院，尤其是较大的法院，书记员会根据法院处理的不同事项类型维护多套登记簿。警方逮捕登记簿记录了被告人被警方逮捕并由其带至法院的刑事案件详情。（启动刑事案件并将被告人带至法院的另一主要机制是传票。）本系列P1批次中的卷宗最初被归档为另一个系列VPRS 10582。这些记录于2014年经过重新处理，成为本系列的一部分。