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| Withdrawn | 1,636 | 11% |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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2300055/2022 | 5 August 2022 | Not in attendance, or represented For the | Mr J Munro, Solicitor | England & Wales | — |
| 3305581/2020 | 5 August 2022 | Mr Janoy Mathew | Sark Service Station (Jet) | England & Wales | £6,312 |
| 1303011/2022 | 5 August 2022 | Mrs D Osborne | GenderGP PTE Ltd | England & Wales | — |
| 1308946/2020 | 5 August 2022 | In Person | Mr C Johnson, Consultant | England & Wales | £4,015 |
| 3300154/2022 | 4 August 2022 | Fay Allen | Boardworks Ltd | England & Wales | £5,839 |
| 3300414/2022 | 4 August 2022 | Miss J Turró Sol | Boardworks Ltd | England & Wales | £4,585 |
| 2305740/2021 | 4 August 2022 | Miss Andrea Curtis | Jenab Limited | England & Wales | £732 |
| 2302199/2021 | 4 August 2022 | Mrs M Greenwood | 1) The Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy 2) Kit for Kids Global Ltd (in liquidation) 3) Tobar Group Trading (in liquidation) 4) Kit for Kids Ltd (in administration) |
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 | Network Rail Infrastructure Limited | 24 |
| England & Wales |
| £12,863 |
| 1800783/2021 | 4 August 2022 | Mrs D Bogdanowicz | Next Distribution Limited AT A HEARING | England & Wales | — |
| 1303148/2021 | 4 August 2022 | — | Woods Catering Staffordshire Ltd (in liquidation) and Mr N Wood | England & Wales | — |
| 4113789/2021 | 4 August 2022 | Mr J Toye | Weir & McQuiston (Scotland) Limited (In Administration) | Scotland | — |
| 1401580/2022 | 4 August 2022 | Mrs K Everson | John Jolly | England & Wales | — |
| 1301152/2022 | 4 August 2022 | Miss Sabina Gajdosova | O My Chai Ltd | England & Wales | £1,890 |
| 1400811/2022 | 4 August 2022 | Mr D Tooze | Tokyo Customs Ltd | England & Wales | £18,682 |
| 1301269/2022 | 4 August 2022 | Mr Dale R Holmes | Niyaa People Ltd | England & Wales | £1,066 |
| 2200990/2022 | 4 August 2022 | Mr A Arroyo | ECMS Services Ltd | England & Wales | £3,532 |
| 2420649/2020 | 4 August 2022 | Mr William Carswell | Marks and Spencer plc | England & Wales | — |
| 2355619/2010 | 4 August 2022 | MRS A MAPARA | Priory Group/ Priory Healthcare Ltd | England & Wales | £18,534 |
| 2307963/2020 | 4 August 2022 | Mr Gary Crickmay | Bayleaf Janitorial Supplies Limited | England & Wales | — |
| 2400805/2022 | 4 August 2022 | Mr Lee Ellison | Meadow Mill Wood Finishings Limited | England & Wales | — |
| 1400849/2022 | 4 August 2022 | Miss S Thomas | Pretty Bland Ltd | England & Wales | £1,388 |
| 1310074/2020 | 4 August 2022 | Mr W Strachan | Tesco Stores Ltd | England & Wales | — |
| 3203842/2022 | 3 August 2022 | Mr H Candemir | Ion man Ariston developments | England & Wales | — |
| 2500273/2022 | 3 August 2022 | Mrs D Marshall | James Lynn Catering Services Ltd | England & Wales | £2,111 |
| 3323545/2021 | 3 August 2022 | In person For the | Moura Meat Centre Ltd T/a The Brazilian Shop | England & Wales | £4,167 |
| 2415219/2021 | 3 August 2022 | Mr C Jebb | Northern Dairy Equipment | England & Wales | — |
| 2418579/2020 | 3 August 2022 | Miss T Collins | Barnabas House Ltd | England & Wales | — |
| 2201177/2022 | 3 August 2022 | Ms F Jenkins | Interactive Resorts Ltd | England & Wales | £30,087 |
| 2424117/2017 | 3 August 2022 | Miss E Corpuz | Hilbre Care Ltd (in creditors’ voluntary liquidation) | England & Wales | — |
| 3302182/2020 | 3 August 2022 | Mrs K Krajewski | Rihards Berezovskis Trident Pub Management Ltd | England & Wales | — |
| 2300156/2020 | 3 August 2022 | Mr S Hardesty | HOPH Ltd (In Voluntary Liquidation) | England & Wales | £1,599 |
| 2303164/2020 | 3 August 2022 | Mr A Bottomley | Exclusive Rooms Lettings Limited PRELIMINARY HEARING | England & Wales | — |
| 2307370/2020 | 3 August 2022 | Ms W Maynard | Traylen Enterprises Ltd | England & Wales | — |
| 1404563/2021 | 3 August 2022 | Maria Haines | Sofology Limited | England & Wales | — |
| 2402334/2021 | 3 August 2022 | Mr R Townsend | Mast Group Limited | England & Wales | — |
| 2304897/2021 | 3 August 2022 | Mr P Skelton | Jemca Car Group Limited | England & Wales | — |
| 3300266/2022 | 3 August 2022 | No Attendance For the | Mr G Redmayne, Managing Director | England & Wales | — |
| 2301765/2021 | 3 August 2022 | Miss N Porter | London Borough of Southwark | England & Wales | £25 |
| 4100245/2022 | 3 August 2022 | Mr F Hanlon and others (see Schedule A) | Weir & McQuiston (Scotland) Limited (In Administration) | Scotland | — |
| 1302197/2022 | 3 August 2022 | Mr Guardson Matic | All Starfoods Ltd | England & Wales | £2,362 |
| 1301016/2021 | 3 August 2022 | Matthew Aston | Hadley Steel Framing Limited | England & Wales | — |
| 2300571/2021 | 3 August 2022 | Ms G Kyratzi | Norwegian Air Resources UK Ltd (in voluntary liquidation) | England & Wales | £6,609 |
| 3302976/2020 | 3 August 2022 | Mr L Robinson | Programmemaster Ltd | England & Wales | — |
| 3307597/2020 | 2 August 2022 | In person For the | — | England & Wales | — |
| 3322692/2021 | 2 August 2022 | Mr R Gordon | Apollo Facades Limited | England & Wales | — |
| 2301047/2021 | 2 August 2022 | Mr R Mahl | Secretary of State for Work and Pensions HEARING | England & Wales | — |
| 3314579/2020 | 2 August 2022 | Mrs S Bartlett | St Ives Cleaning Ltd | England & Wales | — |
| 1301732/2022 | 2 August 2022 | Mr R Kalaiarasan | Salisbury Poultry Midland Limited | England & Wales | — |
| 1402006/2022 | 2 August 2022 | Miss Rita Nazareth | AND Burton Wells Trading Limited | England & Wales | £1,204 |
| 4103428/2020 | 2 August 2022 | Member EA Farrell Tribunal Member AB Grant Mr Gordon Gibb | Glasgow School of Art | Scotland | — |