Swiss Civil Procedure Code
(Civil Procedure Code, CPC)

¹ The parties must ap­pear in per­son at the con­cili­ation hear­ing. If a leg­al en­tity is a party, a cor­por­ate body or a per­son who has a com­mer­cial power of at­tor­ney must ap­pear on its be­half who is au­thor­ised to con­duct the pro­ceed­ings and con­clude a set­tle­ment and who is fa­mil­i­ar with the sub­ject mat­ter of the dis­pute.¹³⁴

² The parties may be ac­com­pan­ied by leg­al agent or a con­fid­ant.¹³⁵

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

a.¹³⁶

a per­son or en­tity dom­i­ciled or re­gistered out­side the can­ton or abroad;

b.

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

c.

in the dis­putes men­tioned in Art­icle 243, a per­son who as an em­ploy­er or in­surer del­eg­ates an em­ploy­ee or who as the land­lord del­eg­ates the prop­erty man­ager, provided the per­son so del­eg­ated is au­thor­ised in writ­ing to con­clude a set­tle­ment.

d.¹³⁷

any one of two or more plaintiffs or de­fend­ants, provided one of the parties is present and au­thor­ised to rep­res­ent the oth­er plaintiffs or de­fend­ants and to con­clude a set­tle­ment on their be­half.

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