Compulsory Measures Court

The Compulsory Measures Court (German: Zwangsmassnahmengericht, French: Tribunal des mesures de contrainte, Italian:Tribunale delle misure coercitive) is an institution of Swiss[1] Criminal law. It rules on the provisional detention ("pre-trial detention") of an accused person, as well as on other compulsory[2] measures.

Competences

A decision of the Compulsory Measures Court is required to order the following[3][4] measures, :

  • Provisional detention;[5]
  • Detention for security reasons;[6]
  • Other compulsory measures :
  • DNA[7][8] sampling, ;
  • Surveillance of correspondence;[9]
  • Technical surveillance measures;[10]
  • Surveillance of banking relationships;[11]
  • Mission of an undercover agent;[12]

Other compulsory measures do not need to be referred to the Compulsory Measures Court, such as the Swiss criminal law mandate.[13]

Compulsory measures infringe fundamental rights[14] and must comply with a number of conditions,[15] including the principle of proportionality.[16]

See also

Notes and references
  1. Art. 13 and 18 CPP.
  2. André Kuhn and Joëlle Vuille, Criminal Justice: Penalties According to Judges and Public Opinion, Presses polytechniques et universitaires romandes, coll. "Le savoir suisse", 2010, 128 p. (ISBN 978-2-88074-898-2), p. 21.
  3. Camille Perrier Depeursinge, Swiss Code of Criminal Procedure (CPP) annotated, Helbing Lichtenhahn, 2020, 920 p. (ISBN 978-3-7190-4326-1), p. 44.
  4. André Kuhn and Joëlle Vuille, Criminal Justice: Penalties According to Judges and Public Opinion, Presses polytechniques et universitaires romandes, coll. "Le savoir suisse", 2010, 128 p. (ISBN 978-2-88074-898-2), p. 21.
  5. Art. 224 to 228 CPP
  6. Art. 229 to 233 CPP
  7. Art. 256 CPP
  8. Swiss Telegraphic Agency, "Harvesting DNA from climate activists was excessive, says Federal Court", Le temps, June 9, 2021 (read online [archive], accessed June 8, 2021).
  9. Art. 272 CPP
  10. Art. 281 CPP
  11. Art. 284 CPP
  12. Art. 289 CPP
  13. In Swiss criminal law, a mandate is an act by which a magistrate orders a person to be brought before him or placed in detention. The terms and conditions of the various mandates are governed by the Swiss Code of Criminal Procedure.
  14. Art. 196 CPP
  15. Art. 197 CPP
  16. Camille Perrier Depeursinge, Swiss Code of Criminal Procedure (CPP) annotated, Helbing Lichtenhahn, 2020, 920 p. (ISBN 978-3-7190-4326-1), pp. 312-316.
  17. The Systematic Compendium of Federal Law is the official compilation in a consolidated version of Swiss federal law.

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