Article 117
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 verifi es the parties’ ver- sions of the facts.
3 If the parties are dilatory in responding, the chairman of the judicial body may, after warning them, impose a fi ne of up to CHF 10,000.
4 If the parties fail to collaborate, especially if they ignore the stipulated time limits, the judicial bodies will decide the case, using the fi le in their possession.
64 65 Subsection 2. Oral statements, deliberations, decision