Swiss Criminal Procedure Code
(Criminal Procedure Code, CrimPC)

¹ The ac­cused, the private claimant and the oth­er per­sons in­volved in the pro­ceed­ings may ap­point a leg­al agent to safe­guard their in­terests.

² The parties may ap­point two or more per­sons as leg­al agent provided this does not un­reas­on­ably delay the pro­ceed­ings. In such a case, they must des­ig­nate one agent as the prin­cip­al agent, who is au­thor­ised to carry out acts of rep­res­ent­a­tion be­fore the crim­in­al justice au­thor­it­ies and whose dom­i­cile is deemed to be the sole ad­dress for ser­vice.

³ The leg­al agent may act for two or more per­sons in­volved in the pro­ceed­ings, sub­ject to the re­stric­tions laid down by law and in their pro­fes­sion­al code of prac­tice.

⁴ The parties may ap­point any per­son who has the ca­pa­city to act, is of un­blem­ished repu­ta­tion and is trust­worthy; the re­stric­tions of the law gov­ern­ing the leg­al pro­fes­sion are re­served.

⁵ The de­fence of the ac­cused is re­served to law­yers who are au­thor­ised un­der the Law­yers Act of 23 June 2000⁴¹ to rep­res­ent parties in court; the fore­go­ing is sub­ject to derog­at­ing can­ton­al pro­vi­sions on the de­fence in pro­ceed­ings re­lat­ing to con­tra­ven­tions.