Swiss Criminal Procedure Code

¹The dir­ect­or of pro­ceed­ings shall grant the private claimant full or par­tial leg­al aid for the en­force­ment of their civil claims if:

a.

the private claimant does not have the re­quired fin­an­cial re­sources; and

b.

the civil pro­ceed­ings does not ap­pear to be without any pro­spect of suc­cess.

²Leg­al aid in­cludes:

a.

re­lief from the re­quire­ment to make an ad­vance pay­ment or to provide se­cur­ity in re­spect of costs;

b.

re­lief from the re­quire­ment to pay pro­ced­ur­al costs;

c.

the ap­point­ment of a leg­al rep­res­ent­at­ive if this is ne­ces­sary to safe­guard the rights of the private claimant.