Professor Anthony Seaton, who has cared for patients with asbestos-related conditions, previously told MSPs the legislation would allow the "worried well" to claim for damages.

BBC: Asbestos compensation law passed

Microsoft may now wish to try and claim damages for that.

FORBES: You CAN Fight City Hall

But Castaway has now withdrawn its claim for damages and an injunction, according to Granada, who make I'm A Celebrity...

BBC: Geldof drops Celebrity lawsuit

Irwin Mitchell said the council had now agreed to pay her a five-figure sum in settlement of her claim for damages for her pain and suffering, loss of earnings and ongoing psychotherapy.

BBC: Collette Elliot

If that claim were successful, then you would be entitled to damages against the state for your loss of your pension rights in theory.

BBC

And a separate bill, the Crime and Courts Bill, will have amendments ensuring that newspapers who refused to join the new regulatory regime would be potentially liable for exemplary damages if a claim was upheld against them.

BBC: Press regulation deal struck by parties

This would ensure that newspapers who refuse to join the new regulatory regime will be liable - potentially - for exemplary damages if a claim is upheld against them.

BBC: Beneath the skin of the Leveson law

Those are the facts necessary to satisfy the elements of a claim for, say, breach of contract: promise, consideration, failure to perform, causation and damages, or the requirements of an affirmative defense: impossibility of performance, for instance.

FORBES: Relevance and Strategy