Swiss Criminal Procedure Code
(Criminal Procedure Code, CrimPC)

¹ The dir­ect­or of pro­ceed­ings may sum­mon the parties to a pre­lim­in­ary hear­ing in or­der to settle or­gan­isa­tion­al is­sues.

² The dir­ect­or of pro­ceed­ings may sum­mon the parties to dis­cuss a private set­tle­ment in ac­cord­ance with Art­icle 316.

³ If it is ex­pec­ted that it will not be pos­sible to take cer­tain evid­ence in the main hear­ing, the dir­ect­or of pro­ceed­ings may take that evid­ence pri­or to the main hear­ing, en­trust the task to a del­eg­ate of the court or in cases of ur­gency to the pub­lic pro­sec­utor, or ar­range for the evid­ence to be taken through mu­tu­al as­sist­ance pro­ced­ures. The parties shall be giv­en the op­por­tun­ity to par­ti­cip­ate if evid­ence is taken in this way.