Swiss Criminal Procedure Code
(Criminal Procedure Code, CrimPC)

¹ If the court of ap­peal re­jects the grounds for a re­view put for­ward, it shall dis­miss the ap­plic­a­tion for a re­view and can­cel any pre­lim­in­ary meas­ures.

² If the court of ap­peal ac­cepts the grounds for a re­view put for­ward, it shall quash the con­tested de­cision in its en­tirety or in part and:

a.

re­mit the case to the au­thor­ity that it des­ig­nates for re­con­sid­er­a­tion and a new judg­ment; or

b.

make a new de­cision it­self, provided the state of the files so per­mits.

³ In the event that it re­mits the case, it shall de­cide on the ex­tent to which the grounds for a re­view ac­cep­ted nul­li­fy the leg­al­ity and en­force­ab­il­ity of the con­tested de­cision and at what stage the pro­ceed­ings should be re­sumed.

⁴ It may or­der the ac­cused to be placed tem­por­ar­ily or to re­main in pre­vent­ive de­ten­tion, if the rel­ev­ant re­quire­ments are ful­filled.