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
[edit]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
[edit]Legal basis
[edit]- Swiss Code of Criminal Procedure archive (CCP) of October 5, 2007 (status February 1, 2020), SR[17] 312.0.
Notes and references
[edit]- ^ Art. 13 and 18 CPP.
- ^ 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.
- ^ Camille Perrier Depeursinge, Swiss Code of Criminal Procedure (CPP) annotated, Helbing Lichtenhahn, 2020, 920 p. (ISBN 978-3-7190-4326-1), p. 44.
- ^ 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.
- ^ Art. 224 to 228 CPP
- ^ Art. 229 to 233 CPP
- ^ Art. 256 CPP
- ^ 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).
- ^ Art. 272 CPP
- ^ Art. 281 CPP
- ^ Art. 284 CPP
- ^ Art. 289 CPP
- ^ 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.
- ^ Art. 196 CPP
- ^ Art. 197 CPP
- ^ Camille Perrier Depeursinge, Swiss Code of Criminal Procedure (CPP) annotated, Helbing Lichtenhahn, 2020, 920 p. (ISBN 978-3-7190-4326-1), pp. 312-316.
- ^ The Systematic Compendium of Federal Law is the official compilation in a consolidated version of Swiss federal law.