Swiss Civil Procedure Code
(Civil Procedure Code, CPC)

¹ Sum­mary pro­ceed­ings may be brought in par­tic­u­lar in the fol­low­ing cases:¹⁹⁰

a.

ap­point­ing and re­pla­cing mem­bers of an ar­bit­ral tribunal (Art. 179 para. 2–5 PILA¹⁹¹);

b.

chal­len­ging and re­mov­ing a mem­ber of an ar­bit­ral tribunal (Art. 180a para. 2 and Art. 180b para. 2 PILA);

c.

ob­tain­ing as­sist­ance from the state court in en­for­cing in­ter­im meas­ures (Art. 183 para. 2 PILA) and in tak­ing evid­ence (Art. 184 para. 2 PILA);

d.

ob­tain­ing oth­er forms of as­sist­ance from the state court in the ar­bit­ra­tion pro­ceed­ings (Art. 185 PILA);

e.

ob­tain­ing as­sist­ance from the state court in the case of for­eign ar­bit­ra­tion pro­ceed­ings (Art. 185a PILA);

f.

de­pos­it­ing the award and cer­ti­fy­ing its en­force­ab­il­ity (Art. 193 PILA);

g.

ac­know­ledging and ex­ecut­ing for­eign awards (Art. 194 PILA).

² Can­ton­al law may provide that, at the re­quest of all parties, Eng­lish is used as the lan­guage of pro­ceed­ings if Eng­lish is used for the ar­bit­ra­tion agree­ment or ar­bit­ra­tion clause or as the lan­guage of pro­ceed­ings in the ar­bit­ra­tion.¹⁹²