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Tribunal Watch has indexed 27,877 UK employment tribunal cases involving breach of contract claims, published on gov.uk since 2017. Where compensation was recorded, the median award was £4,044 (the largest £3,449,329) across 10,449 cases. Tribunals upheld 69% of the 12,054 decided breach of contract claims. These cases name 23,406 distinct employers as respondents.
| Outcome | Claims | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Upheld | 8,375 | 55% |
| Dismissed | 3,679 | 24% |
| Withdrawn | 1,632 | 11% |
| Struck out | 1,103 | 7% |
| Other | 428 | 3% |
| Settled | 128 | 1% |
| Year | Cases | Trend |
|---|---|---|
| 2017 | 321 | |
| 2018 | 636 | |
| 2019 | 3,862 | |
| 2020 | 5,472 | |
| 2021 | 3,723 | |
| 2022 | 3,561 | |
| 2023 | 3,377 | |
| 2024 | 2,991 | |
| 2025 | 2,656 | |
| 2026 | 1,278 |
| Case ref. | Decided | Claimant | Primary respondent | Total award |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1404855/2018 | 5 June 2019 | In person For the | University of Southampton | £3,449,329 |
| 2202063/2014 | 8 November 2019 | Mr M Epstein For | Government of the State of Qatar | £388,920 |
| 1803164/2021 | 14 September 2022 | Ms E Tahir | National Grid UK Limited Heard: 2- 4 May 2023 Deliberations 26 May 2023 | £357,004 |
| 3304188/2022 | 28 July 2023 | Cyril Gregory | Petro Trace Limited | £340,213 |
| 2204168/2021 | 23 June 2022 | Elle Kim | Finablr Ltd | £279,566 |
| 1801339/2017 | 9 May 2018 | Miss S J Austin | Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust | £269,114 |
| 3320831/2021 | 30 November 2022 | Mr Joh Murphy | Remus Corporation UK Limited (in compulsory liquidation) | £234,410 |
| 3305627/2024 | 6 August 2025 | Mr Richard Cooke | Seven Resourcing Limited | £229,119 |
| Case ref. | Decided | Claimant | Primary respondent | Jurisdiction | Total award |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2218682/2024 | 29 August 2024 | Mr A Mann | Amber Labs Limited | England & Wales | — |
| 3200410/2024 | 29 August 2024 | Mr David Metcalf | Farr Engineering Services Limited (In Voluntary Liquidation) | England & Wales | — |
| 3306686/2021 | 29 August 2024 | Mr M Singh & Others | Do & Co Event & Airline Catering Limited | England & Wales | — |
| 1804134/2024 | 29 August 2024 | Layla Branton | Marvel Heating and Renewable Energy Limited (First Respondent) Dwain Byrne (Second Respondent) Shareena Byrne (Third Respondent) Heard: in public by CVP | England & Wales | — |
| 4104321/2024 | 29 August 2024 | EMPLOYMENT TRIBUNALS (SCOTLAND) Case No: 4104321/2024 Mr Z Karlsons | Linnet Onboard Catering Ltd | Scotland | £5,849 |
| 4103832/2023 | 28 August 2024 | EMPLOYMENT TRIBUNALS (SCOTLAND) Case No: 4103832/2023 Held at Inverness on 15, & July and August 2024 Employment Judge J M Hendry | Ms Jacqueline Noble Scottish Ambulance Service Board | Scotland | — |
| 3200999/2022 |
Cases on this page are identified by first-pass extraction against the locked §4.4 claim-type taxonomy — a judgment enters the breach of contract caseload if breach of contractis tagged in its classification output. A single judgment frequently combines multiple claim types, so the same case may appear on more than one claim-type page. Per-claim outcomes come from the second-pass (LLM-assisted) extraction and are recorded for each claim a judgment decides; the success rate counts only claims a tribunal decided on the merits (upheld or dismissed). Award figures are taken from the remedy section of each judgment where present; cases without a quantified award — because the tribunal only determined liability, or because the remedy hearing is pending — are excluded from the compensation figures. Regional splits follow the tribunal's jurisdiction as recorded on gov.uk. Nothing on this page is legal advice or a prediction of any outcome; for any specific matter the gov.uk judgment PDF linked from each case page is the authoritative source.
| HS Realisations Limited (Formerly Hewden Stuart Ltd) |
| 27 |
| 15 | No appearance or | 27 |
| 16 | Sonetik UK Ltd (In voluntary liquidation) | 26 |
| 17 | Buckley Lamb Ltd | 25 |
| 18 | DHL Services Limited | 25 |
| 19 | Lidl Great Britain Limited | 25 |
| 20 | Duncan Adams Limited - in Administration | 23 |
| 28 August 2024 |
| Mr D. Whitehand |
| PC Groundworks (South East) Ltd |
| England & Wales |
| — |
| 2501400/2024 | 28 August 2024 | Mrs B.Chhetri. | Ashes Care Group Limited | England & Wales | £4,322 |
| 2402655/2024 | 28 August 2024 | H Murphy | Sardonyx Staffing Limited | England & Wales | £3,937 |
| 3308194/2023 | 28 August 2024 | Ms Binns (Lay representative). For the | Michael Mackle (Managing Director) | England & Wales | £0 |
| 3304151/2024 | 28 August 2024 | Mr P Molloy | Infrateq Group UK Ltd (in Liquidation) | England & Wales | — |
| 3202345/2023 | 28 August 2024 | Mr K Yasin | A T Medics Limited | England & Wales | — |
| 1403097/2022 | 28 August 2024 | Mr S Flemming | 21 Six Limited | England & Wales | — |
| 2501360/2024 | 27 August 2024 | Mr Francis Lee Quigley Ms Margaret Jane McDowell | Sweethart Ltd | England & Wales | £4,044 |
| 3311422/2023 | 27 August 2024 | Ms J Wright | UK Protected Limited (in administration) | England & Wales | — |
| 2401401/2024 | 27 August 2024 | Mr. P. Reid | Aldi Stores Limited | England & Wales | — |
| 2305709/2023 | 27 August 2024 | Mrs Allam | Whitbread Group plc | England & Wales | — |
| 1405436/2023 | 27 August 2024 | Mr G Westwell | WC1LDN Ltd | England & Wales | — |
| 3308138/2023 | 27 August 2024 | Mr H Batterbee | UK Protected Limited (in administration) | England & Wales | — |
| 1602896/2023 | 27 August 2024 | Mrs C Ross | The Crofty Shed Centre Ltd (In Compulsory Liquidation) | England & Wales | — |
| 1602107/2023 | 27 August 2024 | Mr A Cridge | The Christmas Decorators (Franchising) Ltd | England & Wales | £25,000 |
| 3311420/2023 | 27 August 2024 | Mr S Karunakaran | UK Protected Limited (in administration) | England & Wales | — |
| 1401473/2024 | 27 August 2024 | M Arnold | Heaphy’s Ltd | England & Wales | £1,395 |
| 3313164/2023 | 27 August 2024 | Mr D Kostakakis | Charles Briggs Ltd | England & Wales | — |
| 1602464/2024 | 27 August 2024 | Miss H De Oliveira | Dhaliwal Resturants Limited | England & Wales | — |
| 3313234/2023 | 27 August 2024 | — | Butani v Somcare Agency Ltd | England & Wales | — |
| 6006230/2024 | 27 August 2024 | Mr A King | Wincanton Group Limited | England & Wales | — |
| 2501355/2024 | 26 August 2024 | Mr. N. Rutter | J R Dynamics Limited | England & Wales | — |
| 2216709/2024 | 23 August 2024 | Mr W Borich | GSD Painting Contracts London Ltd | England & Wales | — |
| 3310414/2023 | 23 August 2024 | In person. For the | — | England & Wales | £7,000 |
| 3200494/2024 | 23 August 2024 | C Nwachukwu | Queen Mary University of London | England & Wales | — |
| 2218869/2024 | 23 August 2024 | Bilyana Lazarova | The Delicatessen Company Limited, T/A The Gourmet Deli Co (Bierschenke) | England & Wales | £12,413 |
| 4106857/2023 | 23 August 2024 | Mr A Fairley | Renfrew Transport Services Ltd | Scotland | — |
| 2401183/2024 | 23 August 2024 | Miss I Martin | Dapa Coffee Ormskirk Ltd | England & Wales | £673 |
| 2203565/2021 | 23 August 2024 | Mr K Onurcan | Malaysia PUBLIC PRELIMINARY HEARING | England & Wales | — |
| 3310425/2023 | 23 August 2024 | Mr C O Carew | Seven Resourcing Limited | England & Wales | — |
| 3311286/2023 | 23 August 2024 | Mr B J Simpson | Knights of Old Limited (in administration), | England & Wales | — |
| 2600254/2024 | 23 August 2024 | Ms M Housley | Arron Squires | England & Wales | £5,443 |
| 3307224/2023 | 23 August 2024 | Mrs C Ashworth | Homan Tyre Company Limited | England & Wales | £1,258 |
| 2216710/2024 | 23 August 2024 | Mr M Berish | GSD Painting Contracts London Ltd | England & Wales | — |
| 3312504/2023 | 23 August 2024 | Mrs K. Randall | The Black Apollo Ltd | England & Wales | £4,761 |
| 3305572/2023 | 23 August 2024 | In Person For the | — | England & Wales | — |
| 3313570/2023 | 23 August 2024 | In person For the | C Hava | England & Wales | £2,296 |
| 2600670/2024 | 23 August 2024 | Mr B Lovell | Quantum Communications Ltd | England & Wales | — |
| 2405678/2023 | 22 August 2024 | Mr Y Ayadi | The Social Trattoria Ltd | England & Wales | £571 |
| 2305535/2023 | 22 August 2024 | Mr D Weaving | Sentri Recruitment Limited | England & Wales | £15,379 |
| 2213509/2023 | 22 August 2024 | Mr C Barnett | Lift and Load London Limited | England & Wales | — |
| 6001910/2023 | 22 August 2024 | Mr T Thorneycroft | The Snakerooms Ltd | England & Wales | — |
| 8000072/2022 | 22 August 2024 | Member Ms D McDougall Tribunal Member Mr A Grant Mr M Fulton | Choice Start Limited trading as | Scotland | — |
| 2405051/2022 | 22 August 2024 | Mr D Ball Mr D Hailwood Mr S Canavan Mr N Coyne | SLG DB Limited (in compulsory liquidation) | England & Wales | — |