Swiss Criminal Procedure Code

¹The state­ments of the parties, wit­nesses, per­sons provid­ing in­form­a­tion and ex­pert wit­nesses shall be re­cor­ded as they are made.

²The re­cord is made in the lan­guage of the pro­ceed­ings, but im­port­ant state­ments must if pos­sible be re­cor­ded in the lan­guage in which the per­son ex­amined makes them.

³De­cis­ive ques­tions and an­swers shall be re­cor­ded ver­batim.

⁴The dir­ect­or of pro­ceed­ings may per­mit the per­son ex­amined to dic­tate his or her own state­ments.

⁵On con­clu­sion of the ex­am­in­a­tion hear­ing, the re­cord shall be read out to the per­son ex­amined or giv­en to him or her to read. Once aware of its con­tent, the per­son ex­amined must sign the re­cord and ini­tial each page. If he or she re­fuses to read or sign the re­cord, the re­fus­al and reas­ons giv­en for do­ing so shall be noted in the re­cord.

^5bisIf the ex­am­in­a­tion in the main hear­ing is re­cor­ded us­ing tech­nic­al aids, the court may dis­pense with read­ing the tran­script back to the per­son ex­amined and or giv­ing that per­son the tran­script to read and sign. The re­cord­ings are placed in the case files.¹

⁶In the case of hear­ings by means of video con­fer­ence, the per­son ex­amined shall make an or­al de­clar­a­tion that he or she un­der­stands the con­tent of the re­cord in­stead of sign­ing and ini­tial­ling the same. The de­clar­a­tion shall be noted in the re­cord.

⁷If re­cords writ­ten by hand are not eas­ily legible or if the state­ments have been re­cor­ded in short­hand, a legible copy shall be pre­pared im­me­di­ately. Notes shall be pre­served un­til the con­clu­sion of the pro­ceed­ings.²