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| Withdrawn | 1,632 | 11% |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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1404105/2020 | 14 May 2021 | Mrs E M Dorante Solorzano Mr R Faria Almeda | Tiago Coelho t/a Happy Cod | England & Wales | — |
| 1600462/2018 | 14 May 2021 | Mr R Talman | Airbus Operations Limited Heard: by video | England & Wales | — |
| 2600633/2020 | 14 May 2021 | Mr W Farley | H.A.A.N.K Limited | England & Wales | — |
| 2503701/2019 | 14 May 2021 | Mr S Crabtree | E E Limited | England & Wales | — |
| 2201937/2019 | 14 May 2021 | Mr Kopinski in Person For the | — | England & Wales | £0 |
| 2604417/2020 | 14 May 2021 | Ms N Abbott, Solicitor For the | Karting (Mansfield) Ltd | England & Wales | £18,802 |
| 1601177/2020 | 14 May 2021 | Mr. P. Hardy | Wincanton Group Ltd HELD BY: CVP | England & Wales | — |
| 3332202/2018 | 14 May 2021 | Mr A Walne | Royal Mail Group Limited |
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 |
| — |
| 3312336/2020 | 14 May 2021 | Ms L. O’Hara | Laxmico Limited | England & Wales | — |
| 3202699/2020 | 14 May 2021 | Mr Richard Watkins Mr Stephen Green Mrs Susan Read Mr Oliver Graystone | CCE Group Limited | England & Wales | — |
| 1804655/2020 | 14 May 2021 | Mr I Ion | Citu Manufacturing Limited | England & Wales | £492 |
| 3202429/2019 | 14 May 2021 | Kim Holman Lauren Gardiner | Ambulance Transfers Ltd Joseph Church | England & Wales | £57,377 |
| 2200348/2021 | 14 May 2021 | Mr B Shaba | Accor UK Business & Leisure Hotels Ltd | England & Wales | — |
| 3301973/2020 | 14 May 2021 | Miss J Rees and Others | Mr James Orford t/a Bull and Butcher | England & Wales | — |
| 4104759/2020 | 13 May 2021 | Saktivel | Kamasutra Restaurant | Scotland | £392 |
| 1401776/2020 | 13 May 2021 | Miss E Mumford | Cafe Divino Swindon Ltd | England & Wales | — |
| 1401894/2020 | 13 May 2021 | Mrs A Kovacsne Brkal | Restaurants Etc Limited (In liquidation) | England & Wales | — |
| 2413681/2019 | 13 May 2021 | Ms D Williams | Air2Energy Limited | England & Wales | £478 |
| 2413361/2020 | 13 May 2021 | Miss K Samuel | Salford Royal NHS Foundation Trust | England & Wales | — |
| 4106951/2020 | 13 May 2021 | Ms Deborah Halpern | Meltmongers Ltd | Scotland | — |
| 2419455/2020 | 13 May 2021 | Ms A Yewdall | Rest Assured Limited | England & Wales | £1,072 |
| 1601412/2020 | 13 May 2021 | Mrs P Fardell | War World Limited | England & Wales | — |
| 4101959/2020 | 13 May 2021 | Tinnion Mr. James Leckie | The Lookout By Gardeners Cottage st | Scotland | — |
| 4100413/2021 | 13 May 2021 | Mr Kenneth Madden | Represented by His wife, Lynne Madden Fenton Bespoke | Scotland | £1,271 |
| 2417526/2020 | 13 May 2021 | Mr K Bell | Soju Collective Ltd | England & Wales | £1,246 |
| 2601472/2020 | 13 May 2021 | Mr W Stasiak | George Montagu’s Limited (in Creditors Voluntary Liquidation) | England & Wales | — |
| 1310876/2020 | 12 May 2021 | in person For the | — | England & Wales | — |
| 3200196/2020 | 12 May 2021 | Mr M Camporaso | HC-One Limited | England & Wales | — |
| 3334853/2018 | 12 May 2021 | Mr Robert Elliott | Slough Children’s Services Trust | England & Wales | — |
| 4108530/2021 | 12 May 2021 | EMPLOYMENT TRIBUNALS (SCOTLAND) Case No: 4108530/2021 Mr I Young | Midlothian Utilities Ltd | Scotland | £2,034 |
| 4107899/2020 | 12 May 2021 | Ms V Lough | — | Scotland | £20,588 |
| 1403489/2020 | 12 May 2021 | Mr S Comerford | Hart Oven Cleaning Limited | England & Wales | — |
| 1805110/2020 | 12 May 2021 | — | J Bruce and D O’Brien (formerly T/a Sunny Diva’s) | England & Wales | £251 |
| 1601193/2020 | 12 May 2021 | IN PERSON FOR THE | — | England & Wales | — |
| 2303601/2020 | 12 May 2021 | Ms D Kelly | Veran Performance Ltd | England & Wales | — |
| 2501700/2020 | 12 May 2021 | Miss C Wylie | Otterburn Mills Limited | England & Wales | — |
| 2303182/2020 | 12 May 2021 | K Hrabovsky | Marenka Limited | England & Wales | — |
| 2403199/2020 | 12 May 2021 | — | Baker v Delpin Ltd | England & Wales | — |
| 1306126/2020 | 12 May 2021 | — | Evans v Amcor Flexibles UK Ltd | England & Wales | — |
| 4107601/2021 | 11 May 2021 | EMPLOYMENT TRIBUNALS (SCOTLAND) Case Number: 4107601/2021 Mr N Irshad | Asl (Scotland) Limited | Scotland | £16,441 |
| 2306169/2020 | 11 May 2021 | Miss K Percival | Picross Precision Engineering Ltd | England & Wales | — |
| 3304215/2020 | 11 May 2021 | Mrs M Greenfield | Country Retirement & Nursing Homes Limited | England & Wales | — |
| 4107707/2021 | 11 May 2021 | Ms Abigail Pearse | Denholm Energy Services Limited | Scotland | — |
| 1305006/2020 | 11 May 2021 | Miss C Barry | Marilyn Roberts t/a We Make & Mend | England & Wales | £5,580 |
| 3313046/2021 | 11 May 2021 | Ms S Platt | Advantage Angels | England & Wales | £631 |
| 2600299/2021 | 11 May 2021 | Ms N Dowe | Premier Inn Limited | England & Wales | — |
| 1404347/2020 | 11 May 2021 | Mr Rodney Harris | Newgate Welding Supplies Limited | England & Wales | £392 |
| 3304122/2018 | 11 May 2021 | Mr D Lee | BMW (UK) Manufacturing Limited | England & Wales | — |
| 1401413/2020 | 11 May 2021 | Mr D Freeman | Peppermill Pubs Ltd | England & Wales | £2,304 |
| 3307295/2020 | 11 May 2021 | Mr Pado Zerilli | Erasmo Santelia | England & Wales | £500 |