Claim pillar
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| Withdrawn | 1,632 | 11% |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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1404229/2021 | 27 January 2023 | Mr K James | Marsham Court Hotel | England & Wales | — |
| 1403669/2022 | 27 January 2023 | Mr L Nichols | National Highways Limited | England & Wales | — |
| 2409798/2020 | 27 January 2023 | Dr M Afridi | Pennine Acute Hospital NHS Trust | England & Wales | — |
| 3204585/2022 | 27 January 2023 | Miss Lee-Ann Adendorff | Secretary of State for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy | England & Wales | — |
| 2301066/2021 | 27 January 2023 | Mr M Thrift | Belleville Brewing Limited | England & Wales | — |
| 2410952/2021 | 27 January 2023 | Miss R Alcock | Puleston Wealth Management Ltd | England & Wales | — |
| 3302571/2023 | 27 January 2023 | In person For the | All Energy Solutions Limited | England & Wales | £13,962 |
| 1403686/2022 |
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 |
| 27 January 2023 |
| Mrs S Humphries |
| Oliver Cooper |
| England & Wales |
| £951 |
| 1404474/2021 | 27 January 2023 | Julian Dixon | Ebony Jewellers Limited | England & Wales | £24,553 |
| 2300910/2021 | 27 January 2023 | Henry Whitcher | Wine Warehouse Ltd | England & Wales | £517 |
| 2602108/2022 | 27 January 2023 | Mrs N Adams | The Treasure Inn Limited | England & Wales | £2,532 |
| 3305160/2022 | 26 January 2023 | In person; not represented For the | Mr R Panesar, RSP Invest Ltd | England & Wales | £2,106 |
| 3314683/2021 | 26 January 2023 | Mr. S. McShane (lay representative) For | Owen Owen (Western) Ltd (in liquidation) and SoS for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy | England & Wales | £4,362 |
| 2415045/2021 | 26 January 2023 | Mr M Sutton | Mark Bentley & Sarah Bentley T/A Mark Bentley Haulage | England & Wales | £1,460 |
| 1303173/2023 | 26 January 2023 | Mr Lee Holroyd | Stakehill Limited Heard: by CVP in Birmingham | England & Wales | £17,550 |
| 2305400/2021 | 26 January 2023 | Miss C Hartnup | Gardiner Distribution Limited | England & Wales | — |
| 2408668/2022 | 26 January 2023 | Mr L Brennan | RJW Engineering (Manchester) Limited | England & Wales | — |
| 3306565/2022 | 26 January 2023 | Did not attend and was not represented For the | Amazon UK Services Limited | England & Wales | — |
| 2204197/2022 | 26 January 2023 | MR KHALID AHMED | Rifles Security Solutions Ltd | England & Wales | — |
| 1600608/2022 | 26 January 2023 | Mr A Peel | Office for National Statistics | England & Wales | — |
| 2409131/2021 | 26 January 2023 | Miss L Hayworth | Philip Ellis Properties Ltd PRELIMINARY HEARING | England & Wales | — |
| 2601659/2022 | 26 January 2023 | — | Old Whittington Recreation Ground | England & Wales | £6,118 |
| 3314448/2020 | 26 January 2023 | in person For the Second claimant: did not appear For the Third claimant: in person For the | Mr McFarlane (professional representative) | England & Wales | £156 |
| 2601675/2022 | 26 January 2023 | — | Old Whittington Recreation Ground | England & Wales | £6,576 |
| 2408537/2022 | 26 January 2023 | Mr C Stewart | Network Rail Infrastructure Limited | England & Wales | — |
| 1300811/2022 | 26 January 2023 | Mr Cooper (representing himself) For the | Crane Hire Direct Ltd | England & Wales | £861 |
| 2602257/2022 | 26 January 2023 | — | Old Whittington Recreation Ground | England & Wales | £2,300 |
| 3205488/2022 | 25 January 2023 | Mr S Bozzi | GO Media Enterprise Ltd | England & Wales | — |
| 3305459/2022 | 25 January 2023 | In person For the | Floodsense Ltd | England & Wales | £8,910 |
| 2304927/2021 | 25 January 2023 | Mr D Tench | For the Road Limited | England & Wales | £11,037 |
| 1403117/2022 | 25 January 2023 | Dr G Somerville | Rothamsted Research | England & Wales | — |
| 2303650/2022 | 25 January 2023 | Miss L Saxton | Hair Theatre | England & Wales | — |
| 2302177/2022 | 25 January 2023 | Spyridon Antonakakis | FoodPlex Kitchen 1 Limited | England & Wales | £5,415 |
| 1405804/2020 | 25 January 2023 | Mr A. Loch-Henry | Unite Telecoms Limited | England & Wales | £29,478 |
| 4103760/2022 | 25 January 2023 | Miss L Rabbitte | Represented by:25 Mr C Maclean, Solicitor The Clyde FC Community Foundation | Scotland | — |
| 2205230/2019 | 25 January 2023 | — | The Secretary of State for Justice | England & Wales | — |
| 3205245/2022 | 25 January 2023 | Mr K Ward | AAqua Limited | England & Wales | — |
| 1802588/2022 | 25 January 2023 | Ms L Phillips | First Response Group Ltd | England & Wales | — |
| 3300244/2022 | 25 January 2023 | Mr Harrington, CAB For the | No ET3 filed – No | England & Wales | £786 |
| 1806643/2022 | 25 January 2023 | Miss A Tolley | Tanglewood Care Services Ltd | England & Wales | — |
| 1400601/2022 | 25 January 2023 | Mr S Artigas Bellsolell | FBE Realisations 2021 Ltd - in Administration | England & Wales | — |
| 1303121/2022 | 24 January 2023 | Miss S Rodgers | Brittania Services Group | England & Wales | — |
| 2300791/2022 | 24 January 2023 | (1) E Feltin (2) C Nelson | Voombox Ltd | England & Wales | £35,577 |
| 1302902/2022 | 24 January 2023 | In Person For the | Ms Hufton, Director | England & Wales | — |
| 1400857/2022 | 24 January 2023 | Mr L Nowak | Classic Carbon Ltd | England & Wales | £2,499 |
| 3204215/2022 | 24 January 2023 | Mr A McKenzie | KidsLoop | England & Wales | — |
| 3204187/2022 | 24 January 2023 | Mr Freddie Lauritzen | Secretary of State for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy | England & Wales | — |
| 2305148/2020 | 24 January 2023 | — | Brown v Wainwright and Cummins LLP | England & Wales | — |
| 2302506/2022 | 24 January 2023 | Ms E Carpita | STR 48 Limited Heard by video | England & Wales | — |
| 2302727/2022 | 24 January 2023 | Mr C Barrett | Innovator Capital Limited | England & Wales | £5,637 |