Tort law compensates for four kinds of damage or injury viz [i] personal injury, [ii] property damage, [iii] psychiatric injury and [iv] economic loss. The first two are straightforward while the last two are obfuscated in confusion and generate a lot of controversy among the practitioners, academic lawyers and the judiciary. This article will focus on psychiatric or mental or emotional injury or harm or damage and the extent to which a victim of such injury or damage may be able to recover compensation or damages from a defendant as far as the law of tort is concerned.

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