Article 116
Collaboration Among the Parties
1. The parties are obliged to collaborate to establish the facts. In particular, they shall comply with requests for information from the judicial bodies.
2 Whenever deemed necessary, the secretariat verifies the parties’ versions of the facts.
41 3 If the parties are dilatory in responding, the chairman of the judicial body may impose a fine of up to CHF 10,000, after first warning them.
4 If the parties fail to collaborate and there is no other means of obtaining the infor- mation requested, the judicial bodies will decide the case, using the file in their pos- session. Subsection 2. Oral statements, deliberations, decision