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| Withdrawn | 1,632 | 11% |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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2600088/2022 | 22 March 2022 | Mr. I Burrows | Adindi-Assist Limited | England & Wales | £7,306 |
| 2417717/2020 | 22 March 2022 | Mrs J Malone First | Orion Paint Limited Second Respondent Andrew Cowell | England & Wales | — |
| 4100003/2022 | 21 March 2022 | David Wilson | Kingdom Bakeries Limited (In creditors’ voluntary liquidation) | Scotland | £18,754 |
| 3306763/2021 | 21 March 2022 | Mrs L Allen | Howard Garden Social and Day Care Centre | England & Wales | £909 |
| 2407161/2021 | 21 March 2022 | Mrs K Landrum | B&M Retail Ltd | England & Wales | — |
| 2307328/2020 | 21 March 2022 | Mr C Nita | Art Refurbishment Ltd | England & Wales | — |
| 2305725/2019 | 21 March 2022 | Mr H Jani | Elis UK | England & Wales | — |
| 1806617/2021 | 21 March 2022 | Mr A Gladwin |
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 |
| Lucas Lee Ltd HELD in Sheffield by CVP |
| England & Wales |
| £57 |
| 3306823/2021 | 21 March 2022 | Mr O Williams | Alpha Construction East Anglia Limited | England & Wales | — |
| 1302832/2021 | 21 March 2022 | Alexandra Leese | Intercoat Industrial Paints Limited | England & Wales | £0 |
| 3202270/2020 | 21 March 2022 | Miss M Bogdan | Cabinet Office | England & Wales | £2,000 |
| 3205549/2021 | 20 March 2022 | Emmanuel Okereke | Teamwork GB Limited | England & Wales | £925 |
| 3320537/2021 | 20 March 2022 | Mr A J Cambridge | Wild Recruitment Limited | England & Wales | — |
| 3204985/2021 | 19 March 2022 | Miss S Khan | EE Limited | England & Wales | — |
| 2411145/2021 | 19 March 2022 | Mr M N Shahzad | Kingdom Services Group Limited | England & Wales | — |
| 4110361/2021 | 18 March 2022 | Member L Brown Tribunal Member M McAllister Ms C Hernandez | Represented by Mr L McKay, Trainee Solicitor Evolve Accountancy Limited | Scotland | — |
| 4111714/2021 | 18 March 2022 | — | HBOS plc | England & Wales | — |
| 4103295/2019 | 18 March 2022 | Member McElwee Tribunal Member Taylor Mr R Mitchell Care Visions Group Limited | Represented by: Mr S Smith Solicitor | Scotland | — |
| 2302294/2020 | 18 March 2022 | Mr K Singh | Bains Logistics Limited | England & Wales | — |
| 3220792/2020 | 18 March 2022 | Ms J Horn | The International School of Screen Acting | England & Wales | — |
| 2307635/2020 | 18 March 2022 | Ms J Linford, Counsel For the | P, in person | England & Wales | £33,344 |
| 2415339/2018 | 18 March 2022 | Mr C A Roman | Toyoko Inn UK Limited | England & Wales | — |
| 2402605/2021 | 18 March 2022 | Mr D Sherratt | Life’s Great Group Limited | England & Wales | — |
| 3313023/2021 | 18 March 2022 | Mr M Beyermann Plaza | IMRSIV Ltd (in voluntary liquidation) | England & Wales | £7,438 |
| 3312037/2020 | 17 March 2022 | Miss L Tang | Cliche Limited (in voluntary liquidation) | England & Wales | £13,927 |
| 2603033/2021 | 17 March 2022 | Mr R Knights | Ian Herring | England & Wales | — |
| 2303123/2021 | 17 March 2022 | Celerity LS Ltd | Miss P Labana | England & Wales | £1,924 |
| 2411218/2021 | 17 March 2022 | Mr M James | Tesco Stores Ltd | England & Wales | — |
| 1806638/2021 | 17 March 2022 | Mr. Handley | Listers Group Limited | England & Wales | — |
| 1601132/2021 | 17 March 2022 | Ms K Edwards | The Commissioners for her Majesty’s Revenue and Customs & Others | England & Wales | — |
| 4110477/2021 | 17 March 2022 | Ms PMG Douglas | Morgan Hunt | England & Wales | — |
| 2402239/2021 | 17 March 2022 | Ms J Jones | Proud Goulburn Accountants | England & Wales | £2,808 |
| 4109284/2021 | 17 March 2022 | Gamla | Limited (in Liquidation) | Scotland | — |
| 3205434/2021 | 16 March 2022 | Mr B A Wahla | HGA Accountants and Financial Consultants Limited | England & Wales | — |
| 2200230/2022 | 16 March 2022 | Mr S Burke | Samuel Smith (Southern) | England & Wales | — |
| 3334166/2018 | 16 March 2022 | Mrs Scullion (in person) For the | Mr Bansal (Solicitor) | England & Wales | — |
| 4100198/2022 | 16 March 2022 | Mr A A Kuciak | Home Restore Scotland Ltd | Scotland | — |
| 3316534/2021 | 16 March 2022 | Mr A Zaheer | GMS Technology Limited | England & Wales | £6,439 |
| 3311861/2020 | 16 March 2022 | Mr Masimba Mugadzaweta | Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust | England & Wales | — |
| 2602761/2021 | 16 March 2022 | Mr K Danvers | DHL Aviation UK Limited | England & Wales | — |
| 1804183/2021 | 16 March 2022 | Christopher Beales | Nicola Beales | England & Wales | — |
| 3213182/2020 | 16 March 2022 | Miss Sara Essa | Concert Live Limited | England & Wales | £56,733 |
| 2604276/2020 | 16 March 2022 | Mr Q Hu | Nicholas Associates Group Ltd trading as Stafforce | England & Wales | — |
| 2300678/2020 | 16 March 2022 | — | Novo Nordisk | England & Wales | — |
| 1804070/2021 | 16 March 2022 | Mrs R Ayub | Koala Nursery Limited AT A HEARING | England & Wales | £2,725 |
| 3220762/2020 | 16 March 2022 | Mr A Jordan | Binnington Limited | England & Wales | £11,163 |
| 2600388/2022 | 16 March 2022 | Mr Z Kur | The Food Barn | England & Wales | — |
| 2600056/2022 | 16 March 2022 | N Dolby | Ruston Sports and Social Club | England & Wales | — |
| 3312962/2020 | 16 March 2022 | Mr M Boscoe | Nationwide Crash Repair Centre Ltd (in administration) | England & Wales | — |
| 2305820/2021 | 15 March 2022 | Mr A Beling | Cohen Group Limited | England & Wales | £2,300 |