Swiss Criminal Procedure Code
(Criminal Procedure Code, CrimPC)

¹ The court may com­pletely or partly ex­clude mem­bers of the pub­lic from court hear­ings if:

a.

pub­lic safety or or­der or the le­git­im­ate in­terests of a per­son in­volved, and in par­tic­u­lar the vic­tim, so re­quire;

b.

too many mem­bers of the pub­lic wish ac­cess to the court.

² If mem­bers of the pub­lic are ex­cluded, the ac­cused, the vic­tim and private claimants may each be ac­com­pan­ied by a max­im­um of three con­fid­ants.

³ Sub­ject to spe­cif­ic re­quire­ments, the court may al­low court re­port­ers and ad­di­tion­al per­sons with a le­git­im­ate in­terest ac­cess to pro­ceed­ings that are private in ac­cord­ance with para­graph 1.

⁴ If mem­bers of the pub­lic are ex­cluded, the court shall pass judge­ment at a pub­lic hear­ing or shall if re­quired in­form the pub­lic of the out­come of the pro­ceed­ings in an­oth­er suit­able man­ner.