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to notify one or more parties about the session of the chamber even if they had notrequested notification, if their presence would be of benefit to clarify matters.(2) If a defendant who is in detention or in a correctional institution is being notified of asession of the chamber, the president of the chamber shall order that his presence issecured.(3) A session of the chamber shall begin with a report of the reporting judge on thematter at hand. The chamber may ask the parties attending the session for necessaryexplanations in connection with arguments presented in the appeal. With the permissionof the president of the chamber, the parties may propose that certain documents be readout in order to supplement the report, and provide requisite explanations of argumentspresented in their appeal, or response to the appeal, without repeating the contents ofthe report.(4) The failure of parties duly notified to attend the session of the chamber shall notprevent its holding. Where a defendant has failed to notify the court of a change ofabode or permanent residence, a session of the chamber may be held in spite of thedefendant not being notified.(5) The public may be excluded from sessions of the chamber attended by the partiesonly in accordance with the requirements specified by this Code (Articles 292 to 294).(6) The record of the session of the chamber shall be annexed to the files of the courtsor first and second instance.(7) The rulings referred to in Articles 386 and 387 of this Code may be issued evenwithout notifying the parties about the session of the chamber.Article 376(1) The court of second instance shall render decisions at sessions of the chamber orbased on a hearing held previously.(2) The chamber of the court of second instance shall decide whether a hearing shouldbe held.Article 377(1) Hearings before courts of second instance shall be held only if it necessary toadduce new evidence due to incorrect or incomplete findings of fact or to repeatevidence already adduced and where justifiable reasons exist for the case not to bereturned to the court of first instance for retrial.(2) The defendant and his defence counsel, the prosecutor, the aggrieved, legalrepresentatives and proxies of the aggrieved, subsidiary prosecutors and privateprosecutors, as well as those witnesses and expert witnesses the court decides toexamine, shall be summoned to a hearing before a court of second instance.