Swiss Criminal Procedure Code

¹The crim­in­al justice au­thor­it­ies may re­strict the right to be heard if:

a.

there is jus­ti­fied sus­pi­cion that a party is ab­us­ing his or her rights;

b.

this is re­quired for the safety of per­sons or to safe­guard pub­lic or private in­terests in pre­serving con­fid­en­ti­al­ity.

²Re­stric­tions in re­la­tion to leg­al agents are only per­mit­ted if the leg­al agent gives per­son­al cause for im­pos­ing a re­stric­tion.

³Re­stric­tions must be lim­ited in time or to in­di­vidu­al pro­ced­ur­al acts.

⁴If the reas­on for im­pos­ing the re­stric­tion con­tin­ues to ap­ply, the crim­in­al justice au­thor­it­ies may base their de­cisions on files that have not been dis­closed to a party only if that party has been in­formed of the es­sen­tial con­tent there­of.

⁵If the reas­on for the re­stric­tion has ceased to ap­ply, the right to be heard must be gran­ted in a suit­able form ret­ro­spect­ively.