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New Rules To Facilitate Cross-Border Civil Proceedings Effective 1 January 2026

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By Martina Athanas
| Mondaq
Bär & Karrer are most popular: within Privacy, Food, Drugs, Healthcare, Life Sciences and Employment and HR topic(s) in Switzerland The Swiss Federal Council has taken an important step towards modernising and facilitating the handling of cross-border evidence in civil and commercial matters.
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Bär & Karrer

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By Martina Athanas
| baerkarrer.ch
The Swiss Federal Council has taken an important step towards modernising and facilitating the handling of cross-border evidence in civil and commercial matters. On 5 November 2025, the Federal Council approved Switzerland's amended Declaration on the 1970 Hague Convention on the Taking of Evidence Abroad in Civil and Commercial Matters and set 1 January 2026 as the date for the entry into force of the corresponding amendments to the Federal Act on Private International Law (PILA).
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Proposed Swiss Law Amendment Facilitates Navigation Of Blocking Statutes In Cross-Border Civil Proceedings

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By Andreas D. Länzlinger, Martina Athanas
| Mondaq
On 15 March 2024, the Swiss government proposed an amendment to the Swiss Declaration on the 1970 Hague Convention on the Taking of Evidence Abroad in Civil and Commercial Matters (Hague Evidence Convention), and to the Federal Act on Private International Law (PILA).1 The proposed amendment, if accepted by the Swiss parliament, will allow foreign authorities (or the litigating parties as courtappointed commissioners) to depose or interrogate witnesses or experts situated in Switzerland...
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