If the bench of the Court of Revision and Reconsideration considers that the case is not ready for hearing, it shall order that additional information be provided by one or more of its members for the purpose of carrying out, directly or by means of a letter rogatory, in the manner provided for in this Code, any act of information that may be useful in examining the application, with the exception of hearing any person in respect of whom there are reasonable grounds for suspecting that he has committed or attempted to commit an offence.
When the case is ready for hearing, the court’s bench examines the merits of the case and gives its decision, in a reasoned judgment that is not subject to appeal, after a public hearing during which the oral or written observations of the applicant or his lawyer, those of the public prosecutor and, if he intervenes in the proceedings, after having been duly notified, those of the civil party constituted in the trial whose review or re-examination is requested or his lawyer, are heard. The applicant or his lawyer shall have the last word.
The President of the Court may, in the course of the debates, request that the bench of judges hear any person who is relevant to the examination of the application.