Numa Graa

Prof. Dr. Numa Gaa is an associate professor at the University of Geneva. His specialist areas are the history of public law and criminal law in Switzerland.

Right to fair proceedings a latecomer to Switzerland

Numa Graa 20.04.2023 What rights does a person have in judicial proceedings? It was 2011 before Switzerland had a standard set of rules on how those proceedings are to be conducted. Previously, the Federal Supreme Court had derived procedural rights from the Federal Constitution and made them enforceable.

Marlène Belilos, seen here with her lawyer in front of the Federal Supreme Court in Lausanne on 27 April 1988.