Swiss Civil Procedure Code
(Civil Procedure Code, CPC)

¹ A party may re­fuse to co­oper­ate and to hand over doc­u­ments in con­nec­tion with the activ­it­ies of its in-house leg­al ser­vice if:

a.

it is re­gistered as a leg­al en­tity in the Swiss Com­mer­cial Re­gister or in a com­par­able for­eign re­gister;

b.

the leg­al ser­vice is headed by a per­son who holds a can­ton­al li­cence to prac­tise law or who ful­fils the pro­fes­sion­al re­quire­ments for prac­tising law in their coun­try of ori­gin; and

c.

the activ­ity in ques­tion would be con­sidered pro­fes­sion-spe­cif­ic for a law­yer.

² A third party may re­fuse to co­oper­ate and to hand over doc­u­ments in con­nec­tion with their activ­it­ies in an in­tern­al leg­al ser­vice sub­ject to the con­di­tions set out in para­graph 1.

³ The parties and the third parties may file an ob­jec­tion against de­cisions on the re­fus­al to co­oper­ate in ac­cord­ance with para­graphs 1 and 2.

⁴ The costs of dis­putes con­cern­ing the right of re­fus­al in ac­cord­ance with para­graphs 1 and 2 shall be borne by the party or third per­son who in­vokes it.