Swiss Civil Procedure Code
(Civil Procedure Code, CPC)

¹The court may con­duct pro­ced­ur­al acts or­ally on re­quest or ex of­fi­cio by us­ing elec­tron­ic au­dio or video equip­ment, in par­tic­u­lar by video­con­fer­ence, or au­thor­ise the per­sons par­ti­cip­at­ing in the pro­ceed­ings to do so by us­ing such equip­ment, un­less the law provides oth­er­wise and all parties agree.

² If this Code re­quires the parties to ap­pear in per­son, the use of elec­tron­ic equip­ment is only per­mit­ted if the parties agree and there are no over­rid­ing pub­lic or private in­terests to the con­trary.

³ If a hear­ing in ac­cord­ance with this Code is pub­lic, the court shall grant ac­cess to the courtroom on re­quest. The court may also grant ac­cess by elec­tron­ic means without a pri­or re­quest be­ing re­quired.