Swiss Criminal Procedure Code
(Criminal Procedure Code, CrimPC)

¹ The dir­ect­or of pro­ceed­ings shall on re­quest grant full or par­tial leg­al aid:

a.

to the private claimants to as­sert their civil claims if they do not have the re­quired fin­an­cial re­sources and the civil pro­ceed­ings do not ap­pear to be without any pro­spect of suc­cess;

b.

to the vic­tim to as­sert his or her crim­in­al com­plaint if he or she does not have the re­quired fin­an­cial re­sources and the crim­in­al com­plaint does not ap­pear to be without any pro­spect of suc­cess.⁷¹

² Leg­al aid in­cludes:

a.

re­lief from the re­quire­ment to make an ad­vance pay­ment or to provide se­cur­ity in re­spect of costs;

b.

re­lief from the re­quire­ment to pay pro­ced­ur­al costs;

c.⁷²

the ap­point­ment of a leg­al rep­res­ent­at­ive if this is ne­ces­sary to safe­guard the rights of the private claimants or the vic­tim.

³ A new ap­plic­a­tion must be made for leg­al aid in ap­peal pro­ceed­ings.⁷³