Swiss Criminal Procedure Code
(Criminal Procedure Code, CrimPC)

¹ If the pro­ceed­ings in the first in­stance were so ser­i­ously flawed that they can­not be rec­ti­fied by the ap­peal pro­ceed­ings, the court of ap­peal shall quash the con­tested judg­ment and re­mit the case to the court of first in­stance so that it may con­duct a new main hear­ing and is­sue a new judg­ment.

² The court of ap­peal shall de­cide which pro­ced­ur­al acts must be re­peated or car­ried out.

³ The court of first in­stance is bound by the in­ter­pret­a­tion of law made by the court of ap­peal in the de­cree re­mit­ting the case and by the in­struc­tion is­sued in ac­cord­ance with para­graph 2.