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The Aarhus Convention is not mainly about the details of the Tram Project nd the traffic displacement it produces, and the number and severity of health impacts that may result but more specifically concerned with deciding if there has been any denial of justice, or obstructions put in the way of ordinary people accessing justice, through, for example, not releasing data into the public realm without which assessing the situation is impossible.

In the hearing at the UN HQ complex in Geneva the Barrister representing Defra, the responsible UK government department (The Aarhus Convention is signed at Sovreign government level) and indirectly the City of Edinburgh Council, opened by arguing there was no case to answer in an attempt to head off the process before it began.

However this was not accepted and the hearing went ahead, at the date of writing, the judgement is still under consideration by the Compliance Committee. The various published case papers can be viewed on the UNECE website here.