For example, as Finlay CJ put it in Conway v INTO [1991] 2 IR 305, 317 “in respect of damages in tort … ordinary compensatory damages … [are] sums calculated to recompense a wronged plaintiff for physical injury, mental distress,anxiety, deprivation of convenience, or other harmful effects of a wrongful act and/or for monies lost or to be lost and/or expenses incurred or to be incurred by reason of the commission of the wrongful act” (emphasis added; see also… [read post]