Swiss Civil Procedure Code
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Art. 160 Duty to cooperate

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.63
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 200964;
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.65 It shall take ac­count of the child's wel­fare.

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

63 Amended by No I 4 of the FA of 28 Sept. 2012 on the Amend­ment of Pro­ced­ur­al Pro­vi­sions on Law­yers' Pro­fes­sion­al Secrecy, in force since 1 May 2013 (AS 2013 847; BBl 2011 8181).

64 SR 935.62

65 Amended by An­nex 2 No 3 of the FA of 19 Dec. 2008, in force since 1 Jan. 2013 (AS 2010 1739, 2011 725; BBl 2006 72217001).

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