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| Withdrawn | 1,632 | 11% |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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2501405/2020 | 30 April 2021 | C Woodland | The Secretary of State for Justice | England & Wales | £0 |
| 1804649/2020 | 30 April 2021 | Messrs Elliott, David, Agley and others (see attached schedule) First | CGTR 2020 Realisations Limited (formerly Custom Group Trading Limited (In Administration) Second Respondent: The Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy PRELIMINARY HEARING Heard: By Telephone | England & Wales | — |
| 1601496/2019 | 30 April 2021 | Mrs J Grant | The Commissioners for Her Majesty’s Revenue and Customs | England & Wales | — |
| 2603569/2019 | 30 April 2021 | Mr M Fordham | Burton Same Day Couriers Limited | England & Wales | £772 |
| 2204788/2019 | 30 April 2021 | Mr P Bownes, solicitor For the | — | England & Wales | £412 |
| 3319510/2019 | 30 April 2021 | In person For the | — | England & Wales | £359 |
| 1806785/2020 | 30 April 2021 | Mr M Taylor | Runtech North 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 |
| £2,333 |
| 2301323/2019 | 30 April 2021 | In person with assistance from Ms C Brown (daughter) For the | Ms J Charalambous (litigation consultant) | England & Wales | — |
| 4100363/2021 | 30 April 2021 | EMPLOYMENT TRIBUNALS (SCOTLAND) Case Number: 4100363/2021 Mr M Venckus | Ultimate Car Wash Ltd | Scotland | — |
| 1404355/2019 | 29 April 2021 | Mr M Watchorn | The Burger Chain Limited | England & Wales | £9,239 |
| 2601543/2018 | 29 April 2021 | Ms J Locke Respondent Nottinghamshire County Council | — | England & Wales | — |
| 1305283/2020 | 29 April 2021 | In person For the | — | England & Wales | £27,000 |
| 3325848/2019 | 29 April 2021 | In person For the | Ms E Wilkinson (solicitor) | England & Wales | — |
| 3320855/2019 | 29 April 2021 | Mr M Holcombe | Westone Ltd | England & Wales | — |
| 2603656/2019 | 29 April 2021 | Mr J Rawnsley | Queniborough Aluminium Services Limited Heard via Cloud Video Platform | England & Wales | £7,950 |
| 1806469/2020 | 29 April 2021 | Mr Pascoe | — | England & Wales | £1,600 |
| 2603828/2020 | 29 April 2021 | Mrs J McClure | Specialist Crafts Limited | England & Wales | — |
| 2500522/2020 | 29 April 2021 | Mr P Corrick | Frydays Fish And Chips Restaurant Ltd | England & Wales | — |
| 4105270/2020 | 29 April 2021 | : J Smillie A Shanahan Mr Hisham Hassan | Group Employment Services Limited | Scotland | — |
| 2415395/2020 | 29 April 2021 | Mr W Khan | Peninsula Business Services Limited | England & Wales | £2,960 |
| 2500225/2021 | 29 April 2021 | Mr S Williams | Paul Prest | England & Wales | — |
| 2305426/2019 | 29 April 2021 | In person For the | Ms S Causer (Lay rep and Chair of Trustees) | England & Wales | £2,463 |
| 3324448/2019 | 28 April 2021 | In person For the | Mr Juli Suli, Director | England & Wales | — |
| 3319500/2019 | 28 April 2021 | Parus Bhardwaj | Insultec Limited | England & Wales | — |
| 3304834/2020 | 28 April 2021 | Mr Jeffrey Hughes | CALA Management Limited | England & Wales | — |
| 2408086/2020 | 28 April 2021 | Mr Simon Daly | Sauermann UK Ltd | England & Wales | — |
| 2302296/2019 | 28 April 2021 | (1) MR EDMOND BARROW (2) MR JOSEPH PERKINS (3) MR KEVIN CLUSKER (4) MR FITZLLOYD COOPER (5) MR MICHAEL BRESLIN | MEARS Ltd Heard by CVP | England & Wales | — |
| 3306656/2020 | 28 April 2021 | Mr A Kena-Abrokwa | KGB Cleaning and Support Services Limited | England & Wales | — |
| 3301273/2021 | 28 April 2021 | M Bacali | Crengua Eugenia Dinisor | England & Wales | £2,080 |
| 3213169/2020 | 28 April 2021 | Mr C Wyness | Rigging Services Direct Limited | England & Wales | — |
| 3301274/2021 | 28 April 2021 | M Muresan | Crengua Eugenia Dinisor | England & Wales | £930 |
| 3302796/2020 | 28 April 2021 | Mr D Gibson | Busy Bees Nurseries Limited | England & Wales | — |
| 2500960/2020 | 28 April 2021 | Miss B Burnikell | Mio Tesoro Ltd | England & Wales | — |
| 3310920/2020 | 28 April 2021 | — | Pennetta v Orange Genie Cover Ltd | England & Wales | — |
| 4100014/2021 | 28 April 2021 | Mr D Glab | Hotel in the Skye Limited | Scotland | — |
| 4105113/2020 | 28 April 2021 | Mr M Hamami | — | Scotland | — |
| 2413285/2020 | 27 April 2021 | Paul Baliszewski | David Holmes Construction Limited | England & Wales | — |
| 2418523/2020 | 27 April 2021 | Ms N Leonard | Billy Mannix | England & Wales | — |
| 2604041/2020 | 27 April 2021 | Miss J Cotteral | Norman Birkett-Park | England & Wales | — |
| 4107675/2020 | 27 April 2021 | Miss Samantha Wilson | Jackies Hair Salon | Scotland | £959 |
| 2420061/2020 | 27 April 2021 | Mr W McCorkindale | Mitie Limited | England & Wales | — |
| 1601950/2020 | 27 April 2021 | Mr I Kirkwood | Vencer Ltd | England & Wales | £1,680 |
| 2302876/2020 | 27 April 2021 | Mr P Gray | Sheffield Hair Loss Clinic Ltd | England & Wales | £18,617 |
| 1404684/2020 | 27 April 2021 | Miss Kaia Knott (1) Miss C Hall (2) Miss S Small (3) Mr W Small (4) and Mr J Knott (5) | Mr K A Overal as Executor of Ms Vicki France, deceased | England & Wales | — |
| 1306089/2020 | 27 April 2021 | Ms N Worton | Windsor Academy Trust | England & Wales | — |
| 3306337/2020 | 27 April 2021 | Unrepresented For the | — | England & Wales | £1,765 |
| 1800831/2021 | 27 April 2021 | Mrs R Williams | BPC-5 Limited | England & Wales | £2,270 |
| 1804410/2020 | 27 April 2021 | Ms H Y Wigley | Texplan Manufacturing Limited (in Administration) CONSENT | England & Wales | — |
| 3302920/2020 | 27 April 2021 | Mr C Walder | Channel Advantage Limited (in administration) | England & Wales | — |
| 2601015/2019 | 27 April 2021 | Mr. Adrian Finn | Community Inclusive Trust | England & Wales | — |