Swiss Civil Procedure Code
(Civil Procedure Code, CPC)

¹ Parties and third parties have a duty to co­oper­ate in the tak­ing of evid­ence. In par­tic­u­lar, they have the duty:

a.

to make a truth­ful de­pos­ition as a party or a wit­ness;

b.⁵³

to pro­duce the phys­ic­al re­cords, with the ex­cep­tion of doc­u­ments form­ing cor­res­pond­ence between a party or a third party and a law­yer who is en­titled to act as a pro­fes­sion­al rep­res­ent­at­ive, or with a pat­ent at­tor­ney as defined in Art­icle 2 of the Pat­ent At­tor­ney Act of 20 March 2009⁵⁴;

c.

to al­low an ex­am­in­a­tion of their per­son or prop­erty by an ex­pert.

² The court has free dis­cre­tion to de­cide on the duty of minors to co­oper­ate.⁵⁵ It shall take ac­count of the child's wel­fare.

³ Third parties that are un­der a duty to co­oper­ate are en­titled to reas­on­able com­pens­a­tion.