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| Withdrawn | 1,632 | 11% |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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1600221/2021 | 15 July 2021 | Miss J Buchanan | NP Clubs Ltd | England & Wales | £866 |
| 1802816/2021 | 15 July 2021 | Mr D Robinson | Actavo (UK) Limited | England & Wales | — |
| 1405359/2020 | 15 July 2021 | Mr T. Ledwitch (lay representative) | Mr S. Marcus (managing director) | England & Wales | £268 |
| 3306264/2020 | 15 July 2021 | Mr M. Khan | Spice Villege Indian Restaurant Ltd | England & Wales | £2,688 |
| 2302622/2020 | 15 July 2021 | Mr Paul Bedford | Mastermind Promotions Limited | England & Wales | £3,827 |
| 1310846/2020 | 15 July 2021 | Mrs R Pearson | Terrain Construction Group Ltd | England & Wales | — |
| 3303358/2020 | 15 July 2021 | Ms Adele Clancy | Poolside Manor Ltd | England & Wales | — |
| 2600541/2021 | 14 July 2021 | Mr David Humberstone |
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 |
| England & Wales |
| £2,227 |
| 2306129/2020 | 14 July 2021 | M Wilmot | V Medina | England & Wales | — |
| 2300178/2021 | 14 July 2021 | Ms J Broderick | Fernley (Heathrow) Limited | England & Wales | — |
| 1300407/2021 | 14 July 2021 | Mr D S Boyd | Cab Automotive Limited | England & Wales | £1,376 |
| 3310923/2020 | 14 July 2021 | Ms K Krupinska, representative For the | Mrs F Dad, company secretary | England & Wales | — |
| 3201822/2020 | 14 July 2021 | Mr T Hussain | Dial – A – Spare Limited | England & Wales | £6,662 |
| 2604280/2020 | 14 July 2021 | Miss W Phillips | MNE Accounting Ltd | England & Wales | — |
| 1601498/2020 | 14 July 2021 | Miss J H Lewis | Queens Hotel (Llandudno) Management Ltd | England & Wales | — |
| 1802757/2021 | 14 July 2021 | Mrs S. Potter | Next Retail Limited T/A Next Online | England & Wales | — |
| 3320767/2019 | 14 July 2021 | Ms B Malekela | West London Mental Health Trust | England & Wales | — |
| 3311064/2020 | 14 July 2021 | Mr K Abayomi | Cordant Security Ltd | England & Wales | — |
| 1802722/2021 | 14 July 2021 | Mrs K. Margetts | A New Angle Limited | England & Wales | £596 |
| 1802764/2021 | 13 July 2021 | — | Mitchell Phillips Barbers Ltd | England & Wales | £1,440 |
| 3303001/2021 | 13 July 2021 | Mr S Lennuk | Swinton Aviation Services Ltd | England & Wales | £7,685 |
| 3312748/2020 | 13 July 2021 | Mr C Anton | Mr Fahin Ahmed Nooristani, t/a The Wamas Lounge Limited | England & Wales | — |
| 3303222/2020 | 13 July 2021 | Mr A Butt | AGI Mobile Communications Limited Heard: By CVP | England & Wales | £955 |
| 2302248/2018 | 13 July 2021 | Miss C Bassett | Lush by Design Ltd | England & Wales | — |
| 3335571/2018 | 13 July 2021 | Mrs M Wisniewska, HR Consultant For the | — | England & Wales | £15 |
| 1310611/2020 | 13 July 2021 | Mr L Beaton | Secretary of State for Department of Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy | England & Wales | — |
| 2207689/2020 | 13 July 2021 | Mr David King | DRIVE Software Solutions Ltd | England & Wales | £14,870 |
| 3200053/2021 | 13 July 2021 | Mr Abu Hanifa | Ali Khan | England & Wales | £5,316 |
| 2307922/2020 | 13 July 2021 | Mr S Bandur | Premier Foods Service Provider | England & Wales | — |
| 3327600/2019 | 12 July 2021 | Ms M Grabowska | PSA Retail UK Limited (trading as Robins & Day) | England & Wales | — |
| 3303831/2020 | 12 July 2021 | Mrs S Johnston | Car Accessories Ltd (in voluntary liquidation) | England & Wales | £33,060 |
| 4100511/2021 | 12 July 2021 | Ms J Doyle | Coltart Earley Limited | Scotland | £10,983 |
| 2413325/2020 | 12 July 2021 | Mr N Timmons | Lidl Great Britain Ltd Heard by Cloud video | England & Wales | — |
| 2305268/2020 | 12 July 2021 | Keith Webster | Evridge Group Ltd | England & Wales | — |
| 2201761/2021 | 12 July 2021 | In person For the | Soulkitchens Group Ltd | England & Wales | £7,196 |
| 3321538/2019 | 12 July 2021 | — | Abromaitis v Abbey View Produce Ltd | England & Wales | — |
| 2303067/2020 | 12 July 2021 | Mr S Ramsay | Harris and Bailey Ltd | England & Wales | — |
| 4106719/2020 | 12 July 2021 | (sitting alone) Mr S Haldane | HMS (Scotland) Limited | Scotland | — |
| 3305444/2020 | 12 July 2021 | Siohbán O’Neill Worth | Thames Water Utilities Limited | England & Wales | — |
| 3302692/2021 | 12 July 2021 | Mr I Covell | Food & Life plc | England & Wales | £3,675 |
| 3220561/2020 | 12 July 2021 | (1) Ms T. Brown (2) Mr S. Singh (3) Ms J. Hamilton-Gayle (4) Ms I. Kerr (5) Ms R. Beck (6) Mr I. Ahmed | Ashburn Estates Ltd t/a Troxy | England & Wales | — |
| 2500422/2021 | 12 July 2021 | Miss S Matthews | Utility Aliance Ltd | England & Wales | — |
| 1800185/2021 | 12 July 2021 | Mr G Chikwenengere | Speedibake | England & Wales | — |
| 2305008/2020 | 9 July 2021 | Mr D Cid Barato | Wentworth International College Limited Heard | England & Wales | £14,069 |
| 1602158/2020 | 9 July 2021 | Liam Tantrum | Stone Supplies (Wales) Ltd | England & Wales | £1,974 |
| 2600311/2021 | 9 July 2021 | Miss R Farmer | ACI Retail Finance Limited | England & Wales | £4,528 |
| 2302522/2019 | 9 July 2021 | In person For the | — | England & Wales | — |
| 1400374/2019 | 9 July 2021 | Ms J Danvers (Counsel) For the | — | England & Wales | — |
| 1400992/2021 | 9 July 2021 | Ms M Thomas | DPDgroup UK Ltd | England & Wales | — |
| 3302609/2020 | 9 July 2021 | Mr E Krickis | Ukd Groundworks & civil Engineering Ltd | England & Wales | — |