Swiss Civil Procedure Code
(Civil Procedure Code, CPC)

¹ The es­sen­tial de­tails of the state­ment shall be placed on re­cord, which is then read out or giv­en to the wit­ness to read and there­after signed by the wit­ness. Ad­di­tion­al ques­tions re­ques­ted by the parties that have been re­jec­ted are also re­cor­ded if a party so re­quests.⁷³

² In ad­di­tion, the state­ment may be re­cor­ded on tape, by video or by oth­er ap­pro­pri­ate tech­nic­al aids.

³ If state­ments are re­cor­ded dur­ing a hear­ing us­ing tech­nic­al aids in ac­cord­ance with 2, the court or the ex­amin­ing mem­ber of the court may dis­pense with read­ing the tran­script back to the per­son ex­amined and or giv­ing that per­son the tran­script to read and sign. The re­cord­ings are placed in the case files to­geth­er with the tran­script.⁷⁴