After missing a damages payment by one day, he was declared bankrupt, disbarred and barred from participating in elections.

In December 2009 the defendants capitulated and apologised, and reportedly settled for $15 million damages payment.

Damages payments are dealt with in the same way as redundancy payments (see EIM13070).

In addition to the damages payment, SAP has already paid Oracle $120 million for its legal fees.

The damages payment (donated by Broome to charity) was the highest paid in legal history until Jeffery Archer's controversial action against The Sun newspaper.

If the judgment is affirmed, the damages payment would make only a modest dent in Microsoft's cash hoard, which totaled almost $29 billion at the end of last year.

The 12, who all lived in the New York area, filed for refunds of income taxes on all of their severance pay, arguing that it amounted to a tax-free damages payment for the promise not to sue.

Two years later, BF shares were re-listed on the Philippine Stock Exchange, and the Supreme Court declared in 1999 that Banco Filipino is entitled to damages payments caused by its illegal closure.

He also suggested Portuguese police were partly to blame for coverage of the three year-old's disappearance, which led to a £550,000 damages payment to the McCanns, because it was "fair to assume" that information leaked by them was "reliable".

Leigh Ellis, Theory into Action: Calculating Damages Payments and Accounts of Profits in Patent Cases Article discussing accounts of profits in the context of patent infringement under United Kingdom law.

With about $300 million in cash, some of which has been earmarked to settle with the four other major record companies originally involved in the lawsuit, analysts said MP3.com should be able to stay afloat if it managed to keep the damages payment in the $100 million range.

Among the rumors surrounding Guinness are that the Government investigation will unearth more material damaging to the company and that the Argyll Group, a rival to Guinness in the Distillers takeover, is about to start a legal suit against Guinness, demanding a huge damages payment.