Swiss Civil Procedure Code
(Civil Procedure Code, CPC)

¹ At the re­quest of the de­fend­ant, the plaintiff must provide se­cur­ity for party costs:

a.

if he or she has no res­id­ence or re­gistered of­fice in Switzer­land;

b.

if he or she ap­pears to be in­solv­ent, not­ably if he or she has been de­clared bank­rupt or is in­volved in on­go­ing com­pos­i­tion pro­ceed­ings or if cer­ti­fic­ates of un­paid debts have been is­sued;

c.

if he or she owes costs from pri­or pro­ceed­ings; or

d.

if for oth­er reas­ons there seems to be a con­sid­er­able risk that the com­pens­a­tion will not be paid.

² In the case of man­dat­ory join­der, se­cur­ity must be provided only if each party ful­fils one of the above men­tioned con­di­tions.

³ No se­cur­ity need be provided:

a.

in sim­pli­fied pro­ceed­ings, with the ex­cep­tion of fin­an­cial dis­putes un­der Art­icle 243 para­graph 1;

b.

in di­vorce pro­ceed­ings;

c.

in sum­mary pro­ceed­ings, with the ex­cep­tion of the pro­ceed­ings in clear cases (Art. 257);

d.³⁶

in pro­ceed­ings re­lat­ing to a dis­pute un­der the FADP³⁷.