Ms Helen Gilmartin:

Regarding compelling reasons, I have come across a few circumstances that could be called nothing but compelling reasons. I am not sure I can say this here, but they involved seriously criminal actions and all of that. There are sometimes - though not often - grounds for considering compelling reasons a woman's identity should not be revealed. Whatever about the birth certificate, some certainly could not have other fine points of their lives revealed. In a few circumstances, it was a case of life or death. What is it they say about bad law?