Swiss Criminal Procedure Code
(Criminal Procedure Code, CrimPC)

¹ The dir­ect­or of pro­ceed­ings shall de­cide on the evid­ence that may be taken at the tri­al. He or she shall no­ti­fy the parties of the com­pos­i­tion of the court and what evid­ence is to be presen­ted.

² The dir­ect­or of pro­ceed­ings shall at the same time set a dead­line with­in which the parties must sub­mit and jus­ti­fy re­quests for fur­ther evid­ence to be taken; when do­ing so, he or she shall no­ti­fy the parties of the po­ten­tial ef­fect on costs and com­pens­a­tion of delayed re­quests for fur­ther evid­ence to be taken. He or she shall set the same dead­line for the private claimants in or­der to quanti­fy and jus­ti­fy their civil claim.²³⁹

³ If the dir­ect­or of pro­ceed­ings re­jects a re­quest for fur­ther evid­ence to be taken, he or she shall no­ti­fy the parties of this and give a brief state­ment of the grounds. Re­jec­tion is non-con­test­able, but re­jec­ted re­quests for fur­ther evid­ence to be taken may be sub­mit­ted again at the tri­al.

⁴ The dir­ect­or of pro­ceed­ings shall fix a date, time and place for the tri­al and sum­mon the parties, to­geth­er with the wit­nesses, per­sons provid­ing in­form­a­tion and ex­pert wit­nesses who are to be ques­tioned.

⁵ He or she shall make a fi­nal de­cision on ap­plic­a­tions for post­pone­ment that are sub­mit­ted be­fore the start of the tri­al.