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| Withdrawn | 1,632 | 11% |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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3312584/2020 | 31 March 2021 | Mr P Murray | BCQ Group Limited | England & Wales | — |
| 2504273/2020 | 31 March 2021 | Mr Kevin March | Stapletons Tyre Service Limited | England & Wales | — |
| 1402650/2020 | 31 March 2021 | Mr N Harley-Rüdd | HIT Training Ltd | England & Wales | — |
| 3304626/2020 | 31 March 2021 | Mr A Eiler | And Maersk Line UK Limited Telephone Private Preliminary Hearing (Case Management) | England & Wales | — |
| 2303849/2018 | 31 March 2021 | In person For the | — | England & Wales | £4,788 |
| 2204408/2021 | 31 March 2021 | Ms L Lawrence | SamKnows Ltd | England & Wales | £0 |
| 2202645/2020 | 31 March 2021 | Miss S. Fiddah | Tradewind Recruitment Limited | England & Wales | £1,505 |
| 1602179/2020 | 31 March 2021 | Mr Gary Patterson | A J Tensile Biogas Systems 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 |
| — |
| 3321044/2019 | 31 March 2021 | Ms L Halsall, Counsel | No appearance or | England & Wales | £39,684 |
| 1401811/2018 | 31 March 2021 | In person For the | Ms P Hall, Litigation Executive | England & Wales | — |
| 2307792/2020 | 31 March 2021 | Ms N Endriuskaite | Allercade Limited (T/A Portman Wealth) | England & Wales | £4,234 |
| 2603890/2020 | 31 March 2021 | Mr. Lee Forbes | Reflex Labels Plus Ltd | England & Wales | — |
| 2405544/2020 | 31 March 2021 | Mr T Power | JVH Limited | England & Wales | — |
| 1601346/2020 | 31 March 2021 | Mr S Walsh | Public Urban Bars Ltd | England & Wales | — |
| 2401453/2021 | 31 March 2021 | Miss A Altaf | Applocum Limited | England & Wales | — |
| 2300660/2019 | 30 March 2021 | Mr D Kubasiak | Premier Fruits | England & Wales | — |
| 2417538/2020 | 30 March 2021 | Mr Zbigniew Marzec 1st | YPG Developments Ltd 2nd Respondent: Perennial Management Ltd | England & Wales | — |
| 4107889/2020 | 30 March 2021 | Miss Lauren Faircloth | DW Construction & Joinery Ltd | Scotland | £900 |
| 1807405/2019 | 30 March 2021 | Mr J Manning and others | R1) Clugston Construction Limited (in Administration) R2) Clugston Services Limited (in Administration) R3) The Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy | England & Wales | — |
| 1806301/2020 | 30 March 2021 | Mr A Kaye | Crossling Ltd | England & Wales | — |
| 2305143/2019 | 30 March 2021 | Miss O Talabi-Aderoju | Kingston Hospital NHS Foundation Trust | England & Wales | — |
| 2302088/2020 | 30 March 2021 | Mr R Leach | Chromatics Glass Ltd | England & Wales | — |
| 2206213/2020 | 30 March 2021 | Ms N Gernat | Mr Baleegh Ul-Hassan | England & Wales | £33,614 |
| 2301773/2020 | 30 March 2021 | Mr C Kiyimba | G4S Secure Solutions (UK) Limited | England & Wales | — |
| 2401783/2020 | 30 March 2021 | Ms A Syers | Barclays Bank UK plc | England & Wales | — |
| 4107605/2021 | 30 March 2021 | Viragh | JPH Restaurants Limited t/a Le Roi Fou | Scotland | £1,352 |
| 2413970/2019 | 30 March 2021 | Ms Helene Corlett | Halton Borough Council | England & Wales | — |
| 4107430/2020 | 30 March 2021 | Siobhan Randle | Tubbees Autoport Ltd | Scotland | £458 |
| 1800805/2021 | 30 March 2021 | Mr J Cornwall | Mr J Balmer | England & Wales | £939 |
| 1800653/2021 | 30 March 2021 | Ms M Silverwood | Stephen Myers t/a S Myers Fishmongers | England & Wales | £12,502 |
| 3302278/2020 | 29 March 2021 | Mr R Nicholls | L C Electrical Contractors | England & Wales | — |
| 2301848/2017 | 29 March 2021 | In person For the | — | England & Wales | — |
| 1800920/2021 | 29 March 2021 | Mary Isidore | Solus Facilities Limited t/a Eco Cleaning | England & Wales | £1,796 |
| 1800824/2021 | 29 March 2021 | Miss A Lyons | Tedros Fetwi t/a Energie Fitness | England & Wales | £2,352 |
| 1806591/2020 | 29 March 2021 | Mr G Krukar | British Premium Meats | England & Wales | — |
| 1801140/2020 | 29 March 2021 | Mrs X | Delta Academies Trust | England & Wales | — |
| 3314824/2020 | 29 March 2021 | Kane Haulage Limited | Mr Donovan Kiff | England & Wales | — |
| 1800437/2021 | 29 March 2021 | In person For the | — | England & Wales | £5,094 |
| 2501899/2020 | 28 March 2021 | Mr A Ryba | Perfect Polish Enterprises Limited | England & Wales | £1,659 |
| 2303251/2019 | 28 March 2021 | In person For the | Mr Choudhary, HR Director | England & Wales | £413 |
| 3307351/2020 | 27 March 2021 | Mr A Bowles | Mr J Cahill | England & Wales | — |
| 1403801/2020 | 26 March 2021 | Mr S Smith | Caversham Finance (trading As Brighthouse) | England & Wales | — |
| 1403885/2019 | 26 March 2021 | Ms R Guenon-Bronson | A Great Read Limited | England & Wales | — |
| 1404952/2020 | 26 March 2021 | Mr C Searles | Castleman Accident Repair and Service Ltd | England & Wales | £7,550 |
| 3314142/2019 | 26 March 2021 | In person For the 1st | — | England & Wales | £11,890 |
| 2203475/2019 | 26 March 2021 | Carolyn D’Souza (counsel) For the | — | England & Wales | — |
| 2205929/2020 | 26 March 2021 | Ms M Meehan | European Medical Aesthetics Ltd (In Liquidation) | England & Wales | £10,810 |
| 2301544/2019 | 26 March 2021 | Mr J Orior Mr A Peters | Providence Linc United Services (PLUS) | England & Wales | — |
| 1800803/2021 | 26 March 2021 | Miss Amy Bluff | Little Acorns Nursery School Limited | England & Wales | £3,323 |
| 3201875/2020 | 26 March 2021 | Mrs Caroline Conry | The Hair Company | England & Wales | £2,493 |