Swiss Criminal Procedure Code
(Criminal Procedure Code, CrimPC)

¹ The court shall sit for the en­tire dur­a­tion of the main hear­ing in the com­pos­i­tion re­quired by law and in the pres­ence of a clerk of court.

² If a judge be­comes un­able to at­tend dur­ing the main hear­ing, the en­tire main hear­ing shall be held again un­less the parties waive this re­quire­ment.

³ The dir­ect­or of pro­ceed­ings may or­der that from the out­set a sub­sti­tute mem­ber of the court par­ti­cip­ates in the hear­ing in or­der to re­place a mem­ber of the court if ne­ces­sary.

⁴ If the court is hear­ing a case in­volving sexu­al of­fences, if so re­ques­ted by the vic­tim at least one of its mem­bers must be of the same gender as the vic­tim. Where the court com­prises one judge sit­ting alone, this rule need not be ap­plied if the case in­volves vic­tims of both genders.