When the liberty and custody judge rules after an adversarial debate, he is assisted by a court clerk. He may then apply article 93.
He may not, on pain of nullity, take part in the judgment of criminal cases he has heard.
Except in the case provided for in the second paragraph of Article 137-4, the case is referred to it by a reasoned order from the investigating judge, who forwards the case file to the judge along with the public prosecutor’s submissions. When the liberty and custody judge is required to rule under article 145, the examining magistrate may indicate in his order whether he considers that the public nature of this debate should be ruled out for one or more of the reasons mentioned in the sixth paragraph of this article.