Lawyers pay attention to a conflict of interest in Swiss franc lawsuits

Almost 60 percent of the public believes that judges who themselves have loans in Swiss francs should not adjudicate in cases of franc borrowers, and 51 percent believes that they should be removed from ruling on these issues, according to a June survey by the Ipsos Public Opinion Research Center for the Law and Economy Laboratory Foundation. This is just an example of a conflict of interest in the process of applying the law, about which experts are increasingly alarmed.