Federal Act
on Private International Law
(PILA)

¹ Acts of leg­al as­sist­ance are car­ried out in Switzer­land in ac­cord­ance with Swiss law.

²For­eign forms of pro­ced­ure may also be fol­lowed or taken in­to con­sid­er­a­tion on ap­plic­a­tion of the re­quest­ing au­thor­it­ies where this is ne­ces­sary for the re­cog­ni­tion of a right abroad and provided there are no im­port­ant coun­ter­vail­ing reas­ons re­lat­ing to the per­son in­volved.

³ If a form of pro­ced­ure un­der Swiss law is not re­cog­nised abroad and as a res­ult a right deemed worthy of pro­tec­tion would not be up­held there, the Swiss courts or au­thor­it­ies may is­sue doc­u­ments or take a per­son’s oath pur­su­ant to the form re­quired by the for­eign law.

⁴The Hag­ue Con­ven­tion of 1 March 1954¹⁴ on Civil Pro­ced­ure ap­plies to re­quests to and from Switzer­land for ser­vice and the tak­ing of evid­ence.