Swiss Civil Procedure Code
(Civil Procedure Code, CPC)

¹ New facts and new evid­ence are con­sidered only if:

a.

they are sub­mit­ted im­me­di­ately; and

b.

they could not have been sub­mit­ted in the first in­stance des­pite reas­on­able di­li­gence.

^1bis Where the ap­pel­late court must es­tab­lish the facts ex of­fi­cio, new facts and new evid­ence may be ad­mit­ted un­til the court be­gins its de­lib­er­a­tions.²⁵²

² The amend­ment of the claim is ad­miss­ible only if:

a.

the con­di­tions un­der Art­icle 227 para­graph 1 are ful­filled; and

b.²⁵³

the amend­ment is based on new facts or new evid­ence.