Offences against property, in particular the offence of criminal mismanagement
Author: Lawyer Enrico Germano The offences of criminal mismanagement, provided in art. 158 of the Swiss Criminal Code (hereafter SCC), establishes “Any person who by law, an official order, a ...
Speeding fines or other traffic offences imposed in Italy on drivers of vehicles registered in Switzerland
Author: Lawyer Andrea Amedeo Prospero Recently, the press gave some prominence to a ruling by the Swiss Federal Criminal Court1 indicating that it was not possible to receive payment demands ...
The Swiss criminal records excerpt
Author: Lawyer Enrico Germano The Federal Office of Justice in Berne manages the criminal record extract. Any person residing in Switzerland is entitled to apply for this extract for personal ...
The offence of coercion in the issuance of an unlawful summons for payment
Author: Lawyer Enrico Germano The offence of coercion is provided for in Article 181 of the Swiss Criminal Code (hereinafter CP) and states that “Any person who, by the use ...
The right to file a complaint under Swiss law
Author: Lawyer Enrico Gemano Pursuant to Article 30 of the Swiss Criminal Code (hereinafter CP), “If an act shall be liable to prosecution only if a complaint is filed, any ...
The infringements of personality rights and reparation of reputational damage caused by a press article
Author: Lawyer Enrico Gemano Pursuant to Article 28(1) of the Swiss Civil Code (hereinafter CC), any person whose personality rights are unlawfully may petition the court for protection against all ...
Consensual termination Agreement between the employer and its employee
Author: Lawyer Enrico Gemano Pursuant to Art. 335 of the Swiss Code of Obligations (hereafter CO), an employment relationship for an unlimited period may be terminated by either party. The ...
The high net worth individual: the so-called rich or deemed rich
Author: Lawyer Enrico Germano In finance, a high net worth individual (HNWI-High Net Worth Individual) is a person who has about USD 1 million (at today’s exchange rate about CHF ...
Italian cross-border commuter who is a de facto partner and/or owner of the Swiss company
Author: Lawyer Enrico Germano According to data released by the Federal Statistical Office in Switzerland the number of cross-border commuters, working mainly in border cantons such as Geneva, Vaud, Neuchâtel, ...
Female employment in Switzerland
Author: Lawyer Enrico Germano Women of working age in Switzerland prefer part-time work. Statistics show that “in 2020, 79% of employed women between 15 and 64 years of age with ...
REAL ESTATE BROKERAGE IN SWITZERLAND AND IN TICINO IN PARTICULAR
Author: Lawyer Enrico Germano In 90% of cases in Switzerland, a private individual who intends to sell his property turns to a real estate agency to offer it on the ...
The notification of collection notices to the Italian taxpayer registered to the A.I.R.E and resident in Switzerland
Author: Lawyer Enrico Germano More and more Italian citizens, resident in Switzerland and registered in the Registry of Italian citizens residing abroad (A.I.R.E), in receipt of a B permit (residence ...
Custody and maintenance of minor children in the event of divorce in Switzerland
Author: Lawyer Enrico Germano In the event of a divorce, which statistically affects two out of every five marriages in Switzerland, there are many aspects that the couple will have ...
The ten Plagues of Egypt and the current world crisis. Careless parallelism or ominous premonition?
Author: Lawyer Enrico Germano We are all familiar with the biblical account where a series of calamities fell by divine will and punishment on Pharaoh Ramesses II and the Egyptians ...
Dichotomy between presumption of innocence and trail by media
Directive (EU) 2016/343 on the strengthening of certain aspects of the presumption of innocence and of the right to be present at the trial in criminal proceedings
Author: Lawyer Enrico Germano The presumption of innocence is a neuralgic legal principle according to which a defendant is not considered guilty until proven otherwise. It has been adopted by ...Directive (EU) 2016/343 on the strengthening of certain aspects of the presumption of innocence and of the right to be present at the trial in criminal proceedings
Divorce cases in Switzerland and in Ticino
Author: Lawyer Enrico Germano The Federal Statistical Office in Neuchâtel has published interesting data on divorces in Switzerland, comparing the last three years 2019-2020-2021. It turns out that there were ...
Cases of workplace bullying in Switzerland
Author: Lawyer Enrico Germano The data from the State Secretariat for Economic Affairs (SECO) dated 7 July 2022 show that for the month of June 2022, there were (only) 92,511 ...
One thousand billion Swiss francs to rebuild Ukraine. The first cries of alarm over the risks of corruption.
Author: Lawyer Enrico Germano In the meantime, the July 4th-5th 2022 Ukraine Recovery Conference (URC2022) in Lugano ended with a fair amount media resonance outside Switzerland. It is as if ...
EXERCISING GAINFUL ACTIVITY FOR S PERMIT RECIPIENTS IN SWITZERLAND
Author: Lawyer Enrico Germano After the war started on February 24, 2022 by the Russian Federation in Ukraine, many Ukrainian citizens left their homeland and moved mainly to European countries, ...
WAGE INEQUALITY BETWEEN MEN AND WOMEN IN SWITZERLAND
Author: Enrico Germano The principle of equal wage in Switzerland has been enshrined both in the Federal Constitution since 1981 and in the Federal Act on Gender Equality which came ...
LUMP SUM TAXATION IN SWITZERLAND AND IN THE CANTON OF TICINO: AN IMPORTANT ECONOMIC PROMOTION VEHICLE FOR SWITZERLAND AND A MEAN OF FACILITATED AND PRIORITY ACCESS TO RESIDENCE PERMITS.
Author: Lawyer Andrea Amedeo Prospero Switzerland has a very special taxation mode, designed to attract wealthy foreigners to reside and live in cantons that allow it. In German, this mode ...
EMIGRATION FROM THIRD COUNTRIES TO SWITZERLAND AND RELEVANT ENTRY REQUIREMENTS
Author: Enrico Germano Switzerland remains one of the most competitive countries in the world and in 2021 reached the top of the world rankings, remaining for many years consistently one ...
25TH ST. PETERSBURG INTERNATIONAL ECONOMIC FORUM, WHICH SHUT DOWN ON JUNE 18TH 2022 AND WAS DUBBED THE RUSSIAN DAVOS
Author: Enrico Germano It seems anomalous that despite the current package of EU sanctions, to which Switzerland has also joined, and the ongoing war in Ukraine, the St. Petersburg International ...
FIRST EFFECTS OF THE SANCTIONS AGAINST THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION ON SWISS LUXURY GOODS
Author: Enrico Germano On 10 June 2022, an article came out on the website Swissinfo.ch, concerning the effects of the sanctions against Russia on Swiss luxury goods1. Effects that were ...