Schellenberg Wittmer’s Paul Gully-Hart and Joel Pahud outline the rules of a new simplified form of plea bargain introduced with the unification of Swiss criminal procedure rules

On 1 January 2011, the unified Swiss Code of Criminal Procedure (CCP) entered into force, putting an end to the fragmentation of the rules on criminal procedure in Switzerland, which were split between 26 cantonal codes of criminal procedure and a federal law. With the entry into force of the CCP, the rules on criminal procedure are now the same in each Swiss canton.

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