![Marlène Belilos, seen here with her lawyer in front of the Federal Supreme Court in Lausanne on 27 April 1988.](https://blog.nationalmuseum.ch/app/uploads/belios-titel-gbe-165247-lm-179874-300x225.jpg)
Right to fair proceedings a latecomer to Switzerland
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.
![The Battle of the Trient, attributed to Martin Disteli, 1844.](https://blog.nationalmuseum.ch/app/uploads/trient-gbe-30335-lm-35779-300x202.jpg)
![The ‘old’ Federal Supreme Court building in Lausanne, August 1912.](https://blog.nationalmuseum.ch/app/uploads/bundesgericht-lausanne-be-5174-lm-78532-231x300.jpg)
![Portrait of Ludwig Snell.](https://blog.nationalmuseum.ch/app/uploads/snell-gbe-29385-lm-152364-266x300.jpg)
Every person has the right to equal and fair treatment in judicial and administrative proceedings and to have their case decided within a reasonable time.