VPRS 1665 Court of Petty Sessions/Magistrates' Court City Court Register

City Court Registers are a sequence of registers created by Melbourne Magistrates' Court for cases heard in one of its court rooms known as the City Court. They are the equivalent of Police/Arrest Registers found at other courts.Background: 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. City Court 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.)Content: City Court 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.

市法院登记册（City Court Registers）是由墨尔本治安法院（Melbourne Magistrates' Court）为其下设的市法院庭审案件编制的系列登记册，等同于其他法院留存的警务/逮捕登记册（Police/Arrest Registers）。

背景：先后颁布的《治安法官法》（Justices' Acts）以及近期出台的《治安法院法》（Magistrates' Court Acts）均要求法院书记员或登记员制作并留存所有定罪裁决、司法命令及其他庭审程序的登记档案，该登记册为法院的权威官方记录。1888年以前，此类记录通常被称为“案由清单簿（Cause List Book）”，格式略有差异；1888年之后，便统一采用“登记册”这一称谓。
在众多法院，尤其是规模较大的法院中，书记员会根据法院受理的不同案件类型，维护多套序列的登记册。市法院登记册记录的是由警方逮捕并押解至法院的刑事案件细节——启动刑事案件并将被告带至法院的另一主要机制为传票（summons）。

内容：市法院登记册的格式与其他所有简易裁判法院登记册（Petty Sessions Registers）基本统一，涵盖案件编号、公诉人或告发人姓名、被告人姓名、案件启动方式（所有此类记录均标注为“逮捕”）、产生的诉讼费用、指控事由或诉讼程序描述、裁决结果或司法命令，以及备注信息。备注栏通常用于记录罚金与诉讼费用的缴纳情况。
为确保登记条目真实有效，法院主审法官需在每日庭审结束后签署该登记册。