Swiss Criminal Procedure Code
(Criminal Procedure Code, CrimPC)

¹ The dir­ect­or of pro­ceed­ings or a mem­ber of the court that they have ap­poin­ted shall con­duct the ex­am­in­a­tion hear­ings.

² The oth­er mem­bers of the court and the parties may re­quest the dir­ect­or of pro­ceed­ings to ask sup­ple­ment­ary ques­tions or re­quest their au­thor­isa­tion to ask them them­selves.

³ At the start of the be­gin­ning of the pro­ced­ure for tak­ing evid­ence, the dir­ect­or of pro­ceed­ings shall ques­tion the ac­cused in de­tail on his or her per­son­al cir­cum­stances, on the charge and on the res­ults of the pre­lim­in­ary pro­ceed­ings.