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| Withdrawn | 1,632 | 11% |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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2308040/2020 | 3 March 2022 | Mrs H Jhagra | Crook Log Chemisal Limited | England & Wales | — |
| 1310785/2020 | 3 March 2022 | Ms P Brooks | Sandwell Community Caring Trust Ltd | England & Wales | £540 |
| 3314120/2020 | 3 March 2022 | Not present or represented For the | — | England & Wales | — |
| 3305302/2021 | 3 March 2022 | Mr K.Sonaike, Counsel For | Mr N. Decker, Legal Consultant | England & Wales | £17 |
| 2301899/2020 | 3 March 2022 | Mr D Cole-Jones | Ocado Central Services Limited | England & Wales | — |
| 4108062/2021 | 3 March 2022 | — | Stagecoach and Others | Scotland | — |
| 1402231/2021 | 3 March 2022 | Did not attend For the | Maur Lift Services | England & Wales | £4,414 |
| 4112807/2021 | 3 March 2022 | Mr J Forrester | Ovec Systems Ltd |
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 |
| Scotland |
| — |
| 1602528/2020 | 3 March 2022 | Miss A Hales | PSL2021 Realisations Ltd (in administration) | England & Wales | — |
| 2301915/2018 | 2 March 2022 | Ms M Goodsell | Mrs D Barclay-Bernard and Mrs N Hiller t/a Ellenwhorne Equestrian Centre | England & Wales | — |
| 2301381/2021 | 2 March 2022 | Mrs Ann Putt | Hillary’s Coachworks Ltd | England & Wales | — |
| 2305318/2021 | 2 March 2022 | Mr J S J Gilbert | Tynton Group Limited | England & Wales | £47,678 |
| 2602841/2021 | 2 March 2022 | Mrs A Maclening | Myuran Mahadevan | England & Wales | — |
| 1406054/2020 | 2 March 2022 | — | Bailey v Cotswold Printing Company Ltd (Ta Wercxo) and others | England & Wales | — |
| 2302242/2019 | 2 March 2022 | Miss N Onyejeli | GSM London Limited | England & Wales | — |
| 2307305/2020 | 2 March 2022 | — | 365 Publishing Ltd | England & Wales | £8,360 |
| 2203692/2021 | 2 March 2022 | Mr Dillan Egan | Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust | England & Wales | — |
| 3205415/2021 | 2 March 2022 | Narayan Acharya | Waltham Forests Services Ltd | England & Wales | — |
| 2204304/2021 | 2 March 2022 | William Raymond Milton | Balfour Beatty Group Employment Limited | England & Wales | — |
| 2307721/2020 | 2 March 2022 | Ms N Abdool Ryman | Step Academy Trust | England & Wales | — |
| 1400453/2021 | 2 March 2022 | Mr M Whittcutt, Solicitor-Advocate For the | Mr D Rogers, Solicitor | England & Wales | — |
| 2207135/2020 | 2 March 2022 | Melanie Sharpe (Counsel) For the | — | England & Wales | — |
| 1600789/2021 | 2 March 2022 | Mr Martin Bell | St Catherine’s Parochial Church Council | England & Wales | — |
| 3200059/2021 | 1 March 2022 | Mr M Abousif | Al Khayma Lebanese Restaurant | England & Wales | — |
| 3306288/2021 | 1 March 2022 | Mr Steven Dalton | City Circle UK Limited | England & Wales | — |
| 3313662/2020 | 1 March 2022 | In person For the | — | England & Wales | — |
| 3300450/2021 | 1 March 2022 | In person For the | — | England & Wales | — |
| 1402311/2021 | 1 March 2022 | Mrs A Nicholls | CareTech Community Services Limited | England & Wales | — |
| 1403765/2019 | 1 March 2022 | Ms E Worth | ISS UK Limited | England & Wales | — |
| 1304276/2021 | 1 March 2022 | Ms N Clarke | Hugh M Construction Limited | England & Wales | £434 |
| 3306239/2021 | 1 March 2022 | Ms D Hill | Able Healthcare Ltd | England & Wales | — |
| 1806810/2021 | 1 March 2022 | Mrs J Bramston | Hull City Council | England & Wales | — |
| 3213304/2020 | 1 March 2022 | — | Mayers v Sainsbury’s Supermarkets Ltd | England & Wales | — |
| 3312956/2021 | 1 March 2022 | In person. For the | — | England & Wales | £850 |
| 2602981/2021 | 1 March 2022 | Mr R Parkinson | Hartwell plc | England & Wales | — |
| 3314606/2021 | 1 March 2022 | Mrs S Swift | Stephan c/o TGI Fridays | England & Wales | — |
| 2305162/2021 | 1 March 2022 | Mr S Barnatt | Premiere Conferencing UK Limited (in compulsory liquidation) | England & Wales | £12,800 |
| 2207167/2020 | 28 February 2022 | In person For the | No appearance or | England & Wales | £1,824 |
| 2602715/2021 | 28 February 2022 | Mrs R Palmer | Coalville Cleaning Services Ltd | England & Wales | — |
| 3200502/2021 | 28 February 2022 | Mr T Janulionis | The Insolvency Service | England & Wales | £2,826 |
| 4111533/2021 | 28 February 2022 | Mr L Gardner | Spectrum Properties (West) Ltd | Scotland | — |
| 2408122/2020 | 28 February 2022 | Mr N Lawrence | Muller UK and Ireland LLP | England & Wales | — |
| 1405494/2020 | 28 February 2022 | Mr E Fernandes | K3 Business Technologies Ltd (in administration) | England & Wales | — |
| 1401786/2021 | 28 February 2022 | John Murray | CNN Communications Limited | England & Wales | — |
| 2302427/2021 | 28 February 2022 | Miss K Dawson | Carisa Radiators Ltd | England & Wales | — |
| 1406373/2020 | 28 February 2022 | Philip Beach | Angelfish (Southampton) Limited | England & Wales | — |
| 3306606/2021 | 27 February 2022 | Mr J Dixon | Brooknight Security Ltd | England & Wales | £169 |
| 2302433/2020 | 27 February 2022 | Ms Hibaq Bashir Mahamoud | Currys Group Limited (formerly DSH Retail Limited) OPEN PRELIMINARY HEARING | England & Wales | — |
| 3312538/2021 | 27 February 2022 | In person For the | Ms Cotoi, representative | England & Wales | £1,091 |
| 2602494/2020 | 27 February 2022 | Ms A. Davies | Waystone Limited | England & Wales | £846 |