text: In court, the veil was being pitted against an actual right held by someone else, i.e., the right of the accused to a fair trial, and the court still held that veils must at least he considered for allowance unless it was unduly compromising.
  
  There is no equivalent in daily life.  Nobody has a constitutional right to see the faces of others in the street, and public services must be provided in a non-discriminatory fashion.