Claim pillar
Tribunal Watch has indexed 28,168 UK employment tribunal cases involving breach of contract claims, published on gov.uk since 2017. Where compensation was recorded, the median award was £4,050 (the largest £3,449,329) across 10,508 cases. Tribunals upheld 69% of the 12,143 decided breach of contract claims. These cases name 23,646 distinct employers as respondents.
| Outcome | Claims | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Upheld | 8,434 | 55% |
| Dismissed | 3,709 | 24% |
| Withdrawn | 1,636 | 11% |
| Struck out | 1,109 | 7% |
| Other | 429 | 3% |
| Settled | 128 | 1% |
| Year | Cases | Trend |
|---|---|---|
| 2017 | 321 | |
| 2018 | 636 | |
| 2019 | 3,862 | |
| 2020 | 5,472 | |
| 2021 | 3,723 | |
| 2022 | 3,560 | |
| 2023 | 3,377 | |
| 2024 | 2,991 | |
| 2025 | 2,667 | |
| 2026 | 1,559 |
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3200303/2023 | 4 September 2023 | Ms S Makokha | Woodrow Mercer Healthcare Limited FINAL HEARING | England & Wales | — |
| 3200174/2022 | 4 September 2023 | Mr C F Butler | Experis Limited | England & Wales | — |
| 3303816/2023 | 4 September 2023 | Mr A T Cairns | Amazon UK Services Limited | England & Wales | — |
| 2500739/2023 | 4 September 2023 | Mr J Adamson | Paragon Group UK Limited | England & Wales | — |
| 3326340/2019 | 3 September 2023 | Mr O Goble | Jonathan Turner-Smith | England & Wales | — |
| 3310574/2023 | 3 September 2023 | (1) Julia Fuller (2) Darren Fuller | Shepperton Signs Limited – In Liquidation | England & Wales | — |
| 1305829/2023 | 2 September 2023 | Mr M Bentham | Cheshire Sports Coaching Ltd | England & Wales | £11,510 |
| 2305972/2023 | 2 September 2023 |
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.
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| 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 | Network Rail Infrastructure Limited | 24 |
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| 3307815/2023 | 2 September 2023 | Mr Gurpal Singh Sidhu | International Distribution Services Ltd PRELIMINARY HEARING (in public) | England & Wales | — |
| 3304222/2023 | 2 September 2023 | Mr P Trela | DHL International (UK) Limited | England & Wales | — |
| 1302108/2023 | 2 September 2023 | Christine Jones | Tarsaim and Mandeep Sandhu t/a Station Stores | England & Wales | — |
| 6016207/2024 | 2 September 2023 | Mr M McPherson | Stackia Ltd RECORD OF A PRELIMINARY HEARING | England & Wales | — |
| 2500888/2024 | 2 September 2023 | F Elliott | Coquet Trust RECORD OF A PRELIMINARY HEARING | England & Wales | — |
| 3311072/2024 | 2 September 2023 | Onyinye Ndukwe | Fortress Operations Limited RECORD OF A PRELIMINARY HEARING | England & Wales | — |
| 3201230/2024 | 2 September 2023 | Mr Sundeep Dhillon | Gill Aggregates Limited | England & Wales | — |
| 2301048/2023 | 1 September 2023 | Mr C Dalvi Alves | GreenLight | England & Wales | — |
| 1403059/2022 | 1 September 2023 | Mr P McGarry | Innova Design & Build Limited (in voluntary liquidation) | England & Wales | — |
| 1403531/2023 | 1 September 2023 | Mr Gogia via CVP | Brennen & Brown Ltd | England & Wales | £16,092 |
| 6000179/2023 | 1 September 2023 | Mr D Woolass | Atalian Servest Food Co Limited | England & Wales | — |
| 1400329/2023 | 1 September 2023 | Miss Levitt by VHS | Levitt Ltd | England & Wales | — |
| 2501326/2023 | 1 September 2023 | — | J Coates (HGV) Services Ltd | England & Wales | — |
| 3321322/2021 | 1 September 2023 | Ms Chowdhury (solicitor) For the | Structural Steel Supplies Ltd (In Liquidation) | England & Wales | £22,639 |
| 1403107/2022 | 1 September 2023 | Mr D Ruffle | Innova Design & Build Limited (in voluntary liquidation) | England & Wales | — |
| 3302016/2023 | 1 September 2023 | Mrs Tanya Waite | Reach Care Services Limited | England & Wales | — |
| 1402586/2022 | 1 September 2023 | Mr J Isham | Innova Design & Build Limited (in voluntary liquidation) | England & Wales | — |
| 2211470/2023 | 1 September 2023 | Steve Quinn (in person) For the | Carol Martin (Respondent’s In House Solicitor) | England & Wales | £1,444 |
| 2500448/2025 | 1 September 2023 | J Routledge | Retox Digital Limited | England & Wales | — |
| 2301218/2023 | 1 September 2023 | Mr B Wright | Connect Grp | England & Wales | — |
| 3323809/2021 | 1 September 2023 | In person For the | — | England & Wales | — |
| 3301390/2022 | 1 September 2023 | In person For the | Mr B Brooks – Advisor | England & Wales | — |
| 6019149/2024 | 1 September 2023 | Mr Z Sadique | DHL Services Limited | England & Wales | — |
| 3305684/2022 | 1 September 2023 | Samantha Kirk | Johnsons Shoes Ltd | England & Wales | £15,031 |
| 8000231/2023 | 31 August 2023 | EMPLOYMENT TRIBUNALS (SCOTLAND) Case Number: 8000231/2023 Mr D Johnstone | Marston's Trading Ltd | Scotland | — |
| 1804035/2023 | 31 August 2023 | Mr C Hopkins | Healthy Nibbles Limited | England & Wales | £11,068 |
| 3306229/2021 | 31 August 2023 | Mrs J Brar | Do & Co Event & Airline Catering Limited | England & Wales | — |
| 1404348/2022 | 31 August 2023 | did not attend. The | Mr A Robinson, director. | England & Wales | — |
| 1403704/2022 | 31 August 2023 | - IN PERSON FOR THE | - Mr D Roberts | England & Wales | £8,289 |
| 2300966/2023 | 31 August 2023 | Mr T Akrap | Plane Tree Hospitality Limited | England & Wales | £17,043 |
| 1802890/2021 | 31 August 2023 | Mr Tamunoemi Amachree | Royal Mail Group Limited | England & Wales | — |
| 2304935/2022 | 31 August 2023 | Ms Lynn Lowther | Mach Taxis | England & Wales | — |
| 4102759/2023 | 31 August 2023 | Mrs E McNeill | Represented by: Ms J Quinn – Solicitor Glynnhill Hotel Ltd | Scotland | £0 |
| 1401546/2023 | 31 August 2023 | Mr B Pulley | Stakester Limited | England & Wales | £5,594 |
| 2300116/2023 | 31 August 2023 | Ms Dias Cardoso | EPL Foods Limited | England & Wales | — |
| 1302189/2022 | 31 August 2023 | Miss R Ghirmay | Carisway Facilities Support Limited (in Creditors’ Voluntary Liquidation) | England & Wales | £14,522 |
| 2301978/2023 | 31 August 2023 | Po Ming Yu | Vita Collective Limited | England & Wales | £8,384 |
| 3312611/2022 | 31 August 2023 | Mr. Robert Scott | Represented by Ms. E. Christie, Partner Advantage Marketing Corporation Ltd. | Scotland | — |
| 2209533/2023 | 30 August 2023 | Mr J Serrafim | Mayer Construction Limited | England & Wales | £4,154 |
| 3323222/2021 | 30 August 2023 | In person For the | Mr Neil Briggs, Director | England & Wales | — |
| 4105595/2023 | 30 August 2023 | Mrs Susan Willox | Merlin Mortgages | Scotland | £5,002 |
| 3310902/2022 | 30 August 2023 | In person For the | 247 Excellent Quality Care Ltd | England & Wales | £10,807 |