Swiss Civil Procedure Code
(Civil Procedure Code, CPC)

¹ If no grounds are stated for the ac­tion, the court shall serve the de­fend­ant with the state­ment of claim and sum­mon the parties to a hear­ing. If a party fails to at­tend the hear­ing, the court shall im­me­di­ately is­sue one fur­ther sum­mons to the hear­ing and in­form the parties of the con­sequences of any fur­ther de­fault on their part. The hear­ing shall take place with­in 30 days of the first hear­ing.¹⁶⁴

² If the grounds for the ac­tion are stated, the court shall first set a dead­line for the de­fend­ant to file a writ­ten re­sponse to the claim. If the court sum­mons the parties to the hear­ing, Art­icle 234 ap­plies mu­tatis mutandis in the event of de­fault.¹⁶⁵