Swiss Civil Procedure Code
(Civil Procedure Code, CPC)

¹ If a party with leg­al aid is un­suc­cess­ful, the costs shall be settled as fol­lows:

a.

the leg­al agent un­der the leg­al aid sys­tem shall be ad­equately re­mu­ner­ated by the can­ton;

b.

the court costs shall be charged to the can­ton;

c.

the op­pos­ing party shall have its ad­vances re­fun­ded;

d.

the party with leg­al aid must pay party costs to the op­pos­ing party.

² If the party with leg­al aid is suc­cess­ful, the leg­al agent un­der the leg­al aid sys­tem shall be ad­equately re­mu­ner­ated by the can­ton where com­pens­a­tion from the op­pos­ing party is ir­re­cov­er­able or likely to be ir­re­cov­er­able. By pay­ing the re­mu­ner­a­tion, the can­ton be­comes en­titled to en­force the claim for costs.