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" FAIR TRIAL--PROSPECTS AND IMPLEMENTATION   FAIR TRIAL--PROSPECTS AND IMPLEMENTATION By Syed Ali Zafar, Barrister-at-Law, Advocate, Supreme Court, Lahore*   It is as usual a pleasure to be addressing this most august gathering of Pakistan's legal luminaries.   The right to have a dispute resolved or guilt determined through a "FAIR TRIAL" is indeed the mother of all fundamental rights and the central point of any legal system in a democratic set up.   The key legal texts on fundamental rights of fair trial can be found in Article 14 of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, Article 6 of European Convention on Human Rights as well as other Charters like Article 7 of the African Charter on Human and Peoples' Rights and Article 8 of the American Convention on Human Rights. Some of the ingredients of this right:--   . Right to be presumed innocent until proved guilty   . Right to be heard by a competent, independent and impartial tribunal   . Right to counsel   . Right to privacy with counsel   . Right to have adequate time and comments for preparation of defence.   . Right to produce evidence and cross-examine witnesses   . The right to present arguments   . The right to have the trial completed within a reasonable time   . The right to appeal at first instance to higher courts   . Obligation of the Bar and the Bench to maintain a decorum and respect for each other and not to use intimidatory tactics against each other. This includes the duty not to raise tone of voices against each other while questioning or arguing.   Till the 18th Amendment on 19-4:2010 the right of FAIR TRIAL was not specifically mentioned as a FUNDAMENTAL RIGHT in the Constitution of 1973 or the…