Key legal question
Whether the civil claim was barred by lis pendens because it had already been filed in civil court
Extracted holding
The adhesion claim was already pending when the civil action was filed, so the criminal court could entertain it; the lis pendens objection failed.
Extracted reasoning
For both former cantonal procedure and the CPC/Criminal Procedure Code, pendency arose when the written adhesion claim was handed to the Post on 31 August 2005. That preceded the civil filing on 1 September 2005. Any possible identity of claims would have to be examined in the civil proceedings.