Swiss Criminal Procedure Code
(Criminal Procedure Code, CrimPC)

¹ An ap­peal is per­mit­ted against judg­ments of courts of first in­stance that con­clude the pro­ceed­ings in their en­tirety or in part.

² The court of ap­peal may re­view the judg­ment com­pre­hens­ively on all con­tested points.

³ An ap­peal may con­test:

a.

an in­fringe­ment of the law, in­clud­ing ex­ceed­ing and ab­us­ing dis­cre­tion­ary powers, the deni­al of justice and un­jus­ti­fied delay;

b.

an in­com­plete or in­cor­rect as­sess­ment of the cir­cum­stances of the case;

c.

a de­cision that is in­equit­able.

⁴ Where the main hear­ing be­fore the court of first in­stance con­sidered con­tra­ven­tions only, the ap­peal may only claim that the judg­ment con­tains er­rors in law or the as­sess­ment of the cir­cum­stances was clearly in­cor­rect or based on an in­fringe­ment of the law. New aver­ments and evid­ence may not be raised.

⁵ If the ap­peal is lim­ited to civil mat­ters, the first in­stance judg­ment shall only be re­viewed to the ex­tent per­mit­ted by the civil pro­ced­ure law ap­plic­able at the place of jur­is­dic­tion.