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NEWS & PUBLICATIONS

Borel & Barbey actively engages with legal developments by regularly contributing to specialised literature, participating in conferences, and being involved in the academic world.
This section provides you with an overview of the Firm’s latest news, including our publications, the conferences and talks we have participated in, recent cases we have handled, as well as the awards and distinctions we have received. You will also find important announcements and legislative developments that are shaping our legal environment.

Civil procedure workshop – Attachment of assets

30 January 2024
Paul Hanna has been invited to lead a workshop on civil procedure regarding attachment of assets in Switzerland, together with Aude Longet-Cornuz, this Thursday, February 1st, between 12:30 and 2...

Publication iusNet Criminal Law and Procedure, module with Me Loris Bertoliatti

3 August 2022
Discover the new iusNet publication Criminal Law and Procedure, module with our collaborator Loris Bertoliatti among its authors.

Civil Procedure Workshops

3 February 2022
As part of the workshops on the Civil Procedure Code (CPC) organised by the committee of the Geneva Young Bar, Me Paul Hanna, together with Me Aude Longet-Cornuz, co-hosted a...

Civil Procedure Workshops

15 November 2021
As part of the workshops on the Civil Procedure Code (CPC) organised by the committee of the Geneva Young Bar, Me Paul Hanna, together with Me Aude Longet-Cornuz, co-hosted a workshop...

Civil Procedure Workshop

20 September 2021
As part of the workshops on the Civil Procedure Code (CPC) organised by the committee of the Geneva Young Bar, Me Paul Hanna, together with Me Aude Longet-Cornuz, co-hosted a...

Corporate liability for breaches of human rights

16 July 2021
In a contribution published in La revue de l’avocat (6/7 2021, p. 217 ff), Jean-René Oettli examines the current legal framework and the few decisions rendered to date and concludes that...

Civil Procedure Workshops

12 July 2021
As part of the workshops on the Civil Procedure Code (CPC) organised by the committee of the Geneva Young Bar, Me Paul Hanna, together with Me Aude Longet-Cornuz, co-hosted a workshop...

Civil Procedure Workshops

3 June 2021
As part of the workshops on the Civil Procedure Code (CPC) organised by the committee of the Geneva Young Bar, Me Paul Hanna, together with Me Aude Longet-Cornuz, co-hosted a...

L’obtention de moyens de preuve dans le contentieux bancaire

16 April 2021
In their article “L’obtention de moyens de preuve dans le contentieux bancaire ” published in the Guide Droit 2021 of Bilan Magazine, Vincent Guignet and Jean-René Oettli make clients aware of the tools they have...

Civil Procedure Workshops

18 March 2021
As part of the workshops on the Civil Procedure Code (CPC) organised by the committee of the Geneva Young Bar, Me Paul Hanna, together with Me Aude Longet-Cornuz, co-hosted a...

The right of the public defender to obtain down payments during the criminal proceedings

24 March 2020
Pierre Bydzovsky, Sébastien Rosselet and Pablo Lazaro have published an article in the Revue de l’avocat 3/2020 (pp. 111 ff.) (https://anwaltsrevue.recht.ch/) on the right of public defenders to obtain advances from the prosecutor’s office...

New Swiss Decisions in the FIFA Corruption Gate

25 September 2019
Attorney Pierre Bydzovsky wrote an article for the Expert Guides – The World’s leading lawyers chosen by their peers about the recusal decision of the Attorney General of Switzerland in the FIFA corruption gate....

Memorandum of Case Law – May 2018 to August 2018

3 October 2018
The Memorandum of Case Law summarizes a selection of decisions for the given period (in French).

Memorandum of Case Law – February 2018 to April 2018

15 May 2018
The Memorandum of Case Law summarizes a selection of decisions for the period in question (in French).

Borel & Barbey is ranked as one of the top law firms in Switzerland

4 May 2018
The Swiss finance magazine BILANZ and the newspaper Le Temps have published the 2018 ranking of the leading law firms in Switzerland, according to a survey of more than 7’200...