Swiss Civil Procedure Code
(Civil Procedure Code, CPC)

¹ The parties must ap­pear in per­son at the con­cili­ation hear­ing.

² They may be ac­com­pan­ied by leg­al agent or a con­fid­ant.

³ The fol­low­ing per­sons are ex­empt from ap­pear­ing in per­son and may send a rep­res­ent­at­ive:

a.

per­sons dom­i­ciled out­side the can­ton or abroad;

b.

per­sons pre­ven­ted from ap­pear­ing due to ill­ness or age or for oth­er good cause;

c.

in the dis­putes men­tioned in Art­icle 243, an em­ploy­ee as the del­eg­ate of the em­ploy­er or in­surer and the prop­erty man­ager as del­eg­ate of the land­lord, provided the per­sons so del­eg­ated are au­thor­ised in writ­ing to con­clude a set­tle­ment.

⁴ The op­pos­ing party must be no­ti­fied in ad­vance of the rep­res­ent­a­tion.