This Act applies to persons who hold a lawyer’s practising certificate and who represent parties before judicial authorities in Switzerland in terms of the lawyers’ monopoly.
It sets out the modalities by which parties may be represented before judicial authorities by lawyers who:
are citizens of member states of the European Union (EU) or of the European Free Trade Association (EFTA);
are citizens of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland who are covered by Part Four of the Agreement of 25 February 20194 between the Swiss Confederation and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland on Citizens’ Rights following the Withdrawal of the United Kingdom from the European Union and the Free Movement of Persons Agreement;
These modalities also apply to Swiss citizens who are entitled to practise the profession of a lawyer in a member state of the EU or of EFTA8 under any of the professional titles listed in the Annex.
The provisions on lawyers from EU or EFTA member states also apply mutatis mutandis to lawyers from the United Kingdom in accordance with paragraph 2 letters b and c; this does not apply to the provisions on free movement of services (Arts 21 and 22).9