Swiss Criminal Procedure Code
(Criminal Procedure Code, CrimPC)

¹ Pro­ceed­ings be­fore the court of first in­stance and the court of ap­peal, to­geth­er with the or­al passing of judg­ments and de­crees of these courts shall, with the ex­cep­tion of the judges' de­lib­er­a­tions, be con­duc­ted in pub­lic.

² If the parties to such cases have waived their right to the pub­lic passing of judg­ment, or if a sum­mary pen­alty or­der is is­sued, in­ter­ested per­sons may in­spect the judg­ments and sum­mary pen­alty or­ders.

³ The fol­low­ing pro­ceed­ings are not con­duc­ted in pub­lic:

a.

pre­lim­in­ary pro­ceed­ings, with the ex­cep­tion of pub­lic an­nounce­ments made by the crim­in­al justice au­thor­it­ies;

b.

pro­ceed­ings be­fore the com­puls­ory meas­ures court;

c.

pro­ceed­ings be­fore the ob­jec­tions au­thor­ity and, in cases where they are con­duc­ted in writ­ing, be­fore the court of ap­peal;

d.

sum­mary pen­alty or­der pro­ceed­ings.

⁴ Pub­lic hear­ings are open to all mem­bers of the pub­lic; however, per­sons un­der 16 years of age shall only be ad­mit­ted with the per­mis­sion of the dir­ect­or of pro­ceed­ings.