Swiss Criminal Procedure Code
(Criminal Procedure Code, CrimPC)

¹ If it is not clear from the ap­peal pe­ti­tion wheth­er the first in­stance judg­ment is be­ing con­tested in its en­tirety or only in part, the dir­ect­or of ap­peal pro­ceed­ings shall re­quest the party to cla­ri­fy the pe­ti­tion and set a time lim­it for that pur­pose.

² The dir­ect­or of pro­ceed­ings shall send a copy of the ap­peal pe­ti­tion to the oth­er parties im­me­di­ately.

³ With­in 20 days of re­ceipt of the ap­peal pe­ti­tion, the oth­er parties may:

a.

make a writ­ten ap­plic­a­tion for the dis­missal of the ap­peal without con­sid­er­ing its sub­stance; the ap­plic­a­tion con­tain with a state­ment of the grounds;

b.

de­clare their in­ten­tion to file a cross-ap­peal.