Swiss Civil Procedure Code
(Civil Procedure Code, CPC)

¹ Leg­al aid com­prises:

a.

an ex­emp­tion from the ob­lig­a­tion to pay ad­vances and provide se­cur­ity;

b.

an ex­emp­tion from court costs;

c.

the ap­point­ment by the court of a leg­al agent un­der the leg­al aid sys­tem if this is ne­ces­sary to pro­tect the rights of the party con­cerned, and in par­tic­u­lar if the op­pos­ing party is rep­res­en­ted by a leg­al agent; the leg­al agent un­der the leg­al aid sys­tem may be ap­poin­ted pri­or to the court hear­ing in or­der to pre­pare the pro­ceed­ings.

² Leg­al aid may be gran­ted for all or part of the case.

³ The grant of leg­al aid does not re­lieve the party con­cerned from pay­ing party costs to the op­pos­ing party.