Swiss Criminal Procedure Code
(Criminal Procedure Code, CrimPC)

¹ The court of ap­peal may deal with the ap­peal in writ­ten pro­ceed­ings if:

a.

its de­cision relates solely to leg­al is­sues;

b.

only the civil as­pect is be­ing con­tested;

c.

the sub­ject mat­ter of the judg­ment of the court of first in­stance is a con­tra­ven­tion and the ap­peal does not re­quest a con­vic­tion for a felony or mis­de­mean­our;

d.

only an award of costs, dam­ages or sat­is­fac­tion is be­ing con­tested;

e.

only meas­ures un­der Art­icle 66–73 SCC¹⁸⁶ are be­ing con­tested.

² With the con­sent the parties, the dir­ect­or of pro­ceed­ings may also or­der writ­ten pro­ceed­ings if:

a.

the pres­ence the ac­cused is not re­quired;

b.

the ap­peal relates to the de­cision of a judge sit­ting alone.

³ The dir­ect­or of pro­ceed­ings shall fix a time lim­it with­in which the party fil­ing the ap­peal must sub­mit a writ­ten state­ment of the grounds.

⁴ The sub­sequent pro­ceed­ings are gov­erned by Art­icle 390 para­graphs 2–4.