Iura novit curia – the right to be heard (decision of the Swiss Federal Supreme Court as of 9 June 2009 – 4A_108/2009)
In this case, the Swiss Federal Supreme Court decided that the right to be heard (art. 182 para. 3 of the Swiss Federal Act on International Private Law, “PILA”) does not encompass a right of the parties to be specifically heard with regard to the legal qualification of the facts they had introduced into the…