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Ms Kerstin Jäger is completing an internship at our law firm. She is currently studying for her Bachelor’s Degree in Law at the University of Zurich.

In 2024, a cantonal migration office indicated to an applicant that their residence permit would not be renewed. In a decision dated 15 September 2025, the office granted him the residence permit after he submitted a statement as part of the legal hearing. Following the decision, the applicant was again issued with a warning under the law on foreign nationals.

In August 2024, an employer succeeded in evicting a dismissed domestic worker from the property in summary proceedings. In November 2024, the eviction was enforced under civil law.

In July 2024, a cantonal civil law appeal authority upheld an appeal by Kanzlei König. In the appeal proceedings, the appellants complained that the lower court had violated a provision of civil procedure.

In its ruling of 4 March 2024, a cantonal appeals authority upheld an appeal filed by Kanzlei König in a matter under education law. The proceedings centred on whether or not a threat of expulsion from a baccalaureate school was justified.

In its ruling dated 28 November 2023, a cantonal examination committee upheld an objection from Kanzlei König against a grading decision on a vocational education course. As a result of this objection, the appellant was issued a Federal Diploma of Vocational Education and Training as a Healthcare Assistant (Fachfrau Gesundheit EFZ).

Measures against countries, organisations, and private or legal persons have assumed much more importance in Switzerland with the war in Ukraine.

Kanzlei König successfully contested in a civil proceedings that the notice issued on the basis of late payment pursuant to Article 257d of the Swiss Code of Obligations (OR; SR 220) was inadmissible. In its order of 23 May 2023, a court of first instance ruled that the eviction request of the landlord was not valid.

In February 2023, the Office of the Public Prosecutor ordered the termination of proceedings against an accused person, who had, in October 2022, been accused of contravening the traffic rules laid down in the Road Traffic Act (SVG; SR 741.01). The accused had been represented by the law firm Kanzlei König.