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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| Withdrawn | 1,636 | 11% |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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3301368/2021 | 16 August 2021 | — | Green Park Property Management Ltd | England & Wales | £29,844 |
| 1400816/2021 | 16 August 2021 | Mr K Cook | Ottima (Specialist Joinery and Furniture) Ltd | England & Wales | £6,544 |
| 1400871/2020 | 16 August 2021 | In person For the | — | England & Wales | £25,606 |
| 1402106/2021 | 16 August 2021 | Miss Ye-Kwan Pang | Exhibitit-UK.Net Ltd t/a Quadrant2Design | England & Wales | £758 |
| 1405856/2020 | 16 August 2021 | Did Not Attend For the | Mrs Grace Woolford, Commercial Director | England & Wales | £2,750 |
| 3200541/2021 | 16 August 2021 | Mr P Neilan | Gildacroft Limited | England & Wales | £7,212 |
| 1306382/2020 | 15 August 2021 | Ms E Jordan and | Multiquick Powder Coatings Limited | England & Wales | — |
| 3315272/2020 | 14 August 2021 | Mr L Varnam, Counsel. For the |
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 |
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| England & Wales |
| — |
| 1802234/2021 | 13 August 2021 | Miss J B Dimond | Mr Richard Charles Boyd | England & Wales | £15,713 |
| 2304849/2019 | 13 August 2021 | Mr P Penny | Openreach Ltd | England & Wales | — |
| 3304220/2020 | 13 August 2021 | Mr John Carroll | Moore Northern Home Counties Ltd | England & Wales | — |
| 1802175/2021 | 13 August 2021 | Mrs A Mollon | Mr Richard Charles Boyd | England & Wales | £12,852 |
| 1802267/2021 | 13 August 2021 | Mrs J Sayers | Mr Richard Charles Boyd | England & Wales | £15,427 |
| 1802173/2021 | 13 August 2021 | Miss J Trowsdale | Mr Richard Charles Boyd | England & Wales | £5,000 |
| 2500418/2021 | 13 August 2021 | Mrs E Greener | Mr Richard Charles Boyd | England & Wales | £2,125 |
| 2600808/2021 | 13 August 2021 | Miss J Rose | Millberry Care Agency Ltd | England & Wales | £3,321 |
| 1802271/2021 | 13 August 2021 | Mrs S Langan | Mr Richard Charles Boyd | England & Wales | £3,092 |
| 2600924/2020 | 13 August 2021 | Mr J Lawrence | British Gas Limited | England & Wales | — |
| 3306312/2020 | 13 August 2021 | In person. For the | Sol Attendance Limited | England & Wales | £1,664 |
| 1802446/2021 | 13 August 2021 | Miss L Young | Mr Richard Charles Boyd | England & Wales | £4,304 |
| 3201005/2021 | 13 August 2021 | Miss D Willbourne | Roseanne Skelton | England & Wales | — |
| 3303119/2020 | 13 August 2021 | Mrs A Gebretsadik | Aysha Nilofer trading as Huriya Beauty and Care | England & Wales | £2,975 |
| 1802488/2021 | 13 August 2021 | Mrs T Stephens | Mr Richard Charles Boyd | England & Wales | £4,247 |
| 2300610/2020 | 13 August 2021 | Mr S Lamb | Wolseley UK Limited | England & Wales | — |
| 1802289/2021 | 13 August 2021 | Mrs W Luntley | Mr Richard Charles Boyd | England & Wales | £8,107 |
| 1802239/2021 | 13 August 2021 | Mrs P Utley | Mr Richard Charles Boyd | England & Wales | £4,919 |
| 2500433/2021 | 13 August 2021 | Mrs B Allan | Mr Richard Charles Boyd | England & Wales | £25,860 |
| 3312145/2020 | 13 August 2021 | Ms A Uddin | Euro Food Groups Ltd | England & Wales | — |
| 1802784/2021 | 13 August 2021 | Mrs T Martin | Mr Richard Charles Boyd | England & Wales | £36,102 |
| 1802377/2021 | 13 August 2021 | Mrs R Noble | Mr Richard Charles Boyd | England & Wales | £3,931 |
| 1802317/2021 | 13 August 2021 | Miss H Dowling | Mr Richard Charles Boyd | England & Wales | £5,202 |
| 1802296/2021 | 13 August 2021 | Mrs L Lynskey | Mr Richard Charles Boyd | England & Wales | £1,979 |
| 1802402/2021 | 13 August 2021 | Mr N E Dowsland | Mr Richard Charles Boyd | England & Wales | £25,885 |
| 4100101/2021 | 13 August 2021 | ETZ 4(WR) IN THE EMPLOYMENT TRIBUNAL (SCOTLAND) AT EDINBURGH Judgment of the Employment Tribunal in Case No: 4100101/2021 (A) Issued Following Open Preliminary Hearing Held at Edinburgh on th of July 2021 at 10.30 am Employment Judge J G d’Inverno Mrs S Paterson | Voyage Ltd | Scotland | — |
| 1802711/2021 | 13 August 2021 | Mrs C Graham | Mr Richard Charles Boyd | England & Wales | £1,650 |
| 1802315/2021 | 13 August 2021 | Mrs C Constantine | Mr Richard Charles Boyd | England & Wales | £15,114 |
| 1802245/2021 | 13 August 2021 | Mrs E Silkstone | Mr Richard Charles Boyd | England & Wales | £7,383 |
| 1802490/2021 | 13 August 2021 | Miss C Stephens | Mr Richard Charles Boyd | England & Wales | £673 |
| 1802375/2021 | 13 August 2021 | Mr P Atkinson | Mr Richard Charles Boyd | England & Wales | £27,804 |
| 2207666/2020 | 12 August 2021 | Mr. Peter Tyrrell | Terra-Cotta Warriors Ltd. | England & Wales | £2,803 |
| 2600737/2020 | 12 August 2021 | Mr R Brahmbhatt | Kalsi Plastics (UK) Ltd | England & Wales | — |
| 2204535/2021 | 12 August 2021 | Mr. M. Santos Dorneles | — | England & Wales | £14,267 |
| 3300814/2021 | 12 August 2021 | Mr J Wooder | Griffiths Air Conditioning And Electrical Contractors | England & Wales | — |
| 4102001/2020 | 12 August 2021 | Mr Keith Davis | Represented by Mr M Briggs Solicitor Rosyth Royal Dockyard Limited | Scotland | £122,653 |
| 3320568/2019 | 12 August 2021 | Mr M Edwards (Counsel). For the | — | England & Wales | — |
| 4102690/2020 | 12 August 2021 | Mr T Jeffrey | Avocet Agritech Ltd | Scotland | £10,718 |
| 2601398/2021 | 12 August 2021 | Mr P Dixon | Loughborough University | England & Wales | — |
| 1403741/2020 | 12 August 2021 | Miss E Carradine | 1 Star Care (Bristol) Ltd 2 Ms T Alway Heard by Cloud video | England & Wales | — |
| 3314445/2020 | 12 August 2021 | In person For the | Anthony Frank Ltd | England & Wales | £4,932 |
| 2601456/2021 | 12 August 2021 | Mr D Latymer | Rock Plumbing Heating and Electrical Limited | England & Wales | £1,626 |