Swiss Supreme Court Rules Judicial Assistance Request Requires Sufficient Facts But Does not Require Examination of Laws of Requesting State

On November 27, 1985, the highest court of the Swiss Confederation, the Federal Court, ruled that judicial assistance requests must be sufficiently explicit, and its I. Public Law Division denied a German request in a tax fraud case for lack of stating plausibly the facts for the alleged offense.  This case is one in a series of German-Swiss cases delimiting the bounds of compliance with foreign judicial assistance requests.