Swiss Civil Procedure Code
(Civil Procedure Code, CPC)

¹ New facts and new evid­ence are ad­miss­ible at the main hear­ings only if presen­ted im­me­di­ately and:

a.⁸⁸

if they oc­curred after the ex­change of writ­ten sub­mis­sions or after the last in­struc­tion hear­ing (prop­er nova); or

b.

if they ex­is­ted be­fore the close of the ex­change of writ­ten sub­mis­sions or be­fore the last in­struc­tion hear­ing but could not have been sub­mit­ted des­pite reas­on­able di­li­gence (im­prop­er nova).

² If there was neither a second round of writ­ten sub­mis­sions nor an in­struc­tion hear­ing, new facts and new evid­ence may be sub­mit­ted without lim­it­a­tion at the be­gin­ning of the main hear­ing.

³ Where the court must es­tab­lish the facts ex of­fi­cio, new facts and new evid­ence are ad­mit­ted un­til the court be­gins its de­lib­er­a­tions.