Swiss Civil Code

¹A state­ment of grounds is not re­quired for an ap­peal against a de­cision re­lat­ing to care-re­lated hos­pit­al­isa­tion.

²The ap­peal does not have sus­pens­ive ef­fect un­less the adult pro­tec­tion au­thor­ity or the ju­di­cial ap­pel­late au­thor­ity rules oth­er­wise.

³In cases in­volving men­tal dis­orders, the de­cision must be based on the opin­ion of an ex­pert.

⁴The ju­di­cial ap­pel­late au­thor­ity shall nor­mally hear the cli­ent as a pan­el of judges. If ne­ces­sary, it shall or­der that the cli­ent be rep­res­en­ted and ap­point a per­son ex­per­i­enced in care-re­lated and leg­al mat­ters as deputy.

⁵Nor­mally, it de­cides with­in five work­ing days of the ap­peal be­ing filed.