On our website you will see an extensive employment law section which sets out the various employment law services that we offer. If all of the above conditions are met an employee should be entitled to recover compensation for any personal injuries arising from work related stress and/or bullying in the workplace. If it is found that the personal injury suffered is not related to the workplace, the employer could not be held fully liable for the injuries. The personal injury arising from bullying and stress in the workplace must have been caused in the workplace.Therefore by informing the employer at an early stage of the stress and/or workplace bullying, it would be difficult for an employer to defend the case on the basis that they had no knowledge of the bullying later on during the course of the proceedings. The Claimant must prove that the personal injury arising from the stress and bullying in the workplace was reasonably foreseeable by the employer.A recognised psychiatric illness can include depression, an adjustment disorder and many other disorders which can go undiagnosed for a good deal of time until properly assessed by a Psychiatrist. An employee must have been diagnosed with a recognised psychiatric illness in order to bring such a claim.A number of conditions must be met before a work related stress or bullying claim can give rise to a claim for personal injuries as follows: There are thousands of personal injury cases relating to excessive stress and bullying in the workplace throughout the UK and Ireland and the law in each jurisdiction is very similar.