Employee awarded damages for infliction of emotional distress

High Court - personal injuries - claim for damages for personal injury sustained in the course of employment - plaintiff claimed she suffered a psychiatric injury in April 2016 because of the presence on her personal file of a confidential investigation carried out at the request of the defendant - Safety Health and Welfare at Work Acts 1989-2005 - defendant ought to have taken steps to remove the report from the file and to notify the plaintiff that it had done so - defendant should have been taken to have known that it was under a legal obligation not to hold data for longer than was necessary for the specified purpose for which it had been obtained - plaintiff's failure to invoke the specific remedies provided by the Data Protection Acts constituted contributory negligence of the highest order - court not persuaded that the plaintiff suffered a psychiatric injury in 2016 - evidence did establish that the defendant knowingly decided not to comply with its obligation to remove the private investigation report - approach of defendant was cynical - plaintiff was entitled to be compensated for the wrong perpetrated by the defendant which caused her emotional distress - court considered it appropriate to compensate the plaintiff for her emotional distress for a period of one year following the disclosure of the presence of the report on her file.