External
Facial scarring
Compensation range under the Bar Council Malaysia Revised Compendium 2018 (Circular 255/2018) — the operative judicial guideline for general damages in personal injury claims in Malaysia.
Typical range (general damages)
RM6,000 – RM36,500
- Low
- RM6,000
- Relatively minor presentation, conservative treatment, no significant residual effects.
- High
- RM36,500
- Surgery / complications and maximum loss of amenities (occupational and lifestyle impact).
What pushes toward the high: Highly visible scarring + keloid propensity + visual occupation (model, presenter) → top of band.
How Malaysian courts apply this range
- The Low figure reflects a relatively minor presentation. The High already incorporates maximum loss of amenities — calculations should not push above the band-high.
- Where the claimant has multiple injuries, courts adjust for overlap — the total is not a naive sum of each head.
- Special damages (medical bills, loss of earnings, future care) are separate from the general damages range above.
See methodology for how Rawyer models severity, loss of amenities, and overlap.
Other External injuries
- Degloving injury to legRM12,000–RM24,000
- Degloving injury to armRM14,500–RM30,000
- Lacerations (single to multiple)RM2,500–RM9,500
- Abrasions (single to multiple)RM1,300–RM5,000
- Minor scarring to legRM1,300–RM3,300
- Minor scarring to armRM2,200–RM3,850
- Extensive scarring to legRM9,500–RM18,000
- Extensive scarring to armRM12,000–RM24,000