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| Withdrawn | 1,632 | 11% |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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3314142/2019 | 26 March 2021 | In person For the 1st | — | England & Wales | £11,890 |
| 1404952/2020 | 26 March 2021 | Mr C Searles | Castleman Accident Repair and Service Ltd | England & Wales | £7,550 |
| 2203475/2019 | 26 March 2021 | Carolyn D’Souza (counsel) For the | — | England & Wales | — |
| 1402245/2020 | 25 March 2021 | Daniel Piddington (Counsel) For the | Nigel Henry (Professional Representative) | England & Wales | — |
| 1403213/2019 | 25 March 2021 | Mr J Desmond | SJB’s Mechanics Ltd | England & Wales | £98,624 |
| 2203124/2019 | 25 March 2021 | Mr D Bleasdale | Quest Fund Placement Limited | England & Wales | — |
| 1405244/2020 | 25 March 2021 | Miss S Hilton | Marks and Spencer plc | England & Wales | — |
| 3303347/2020 | 25 March 2021 | Ms Yulianova Ivanova | Baresta UK Ltd, Nucrema Crepes and Coffee and Sofiya Tasheva |
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 |
| — |
| 1800450/2021 | 25 March 2021 | Mr Latif | Mr N Rahman | England & Wales | £630 |
| 2409011/2020 | 25 March 2021 | Mr Carl Smith | Light Ash Farm Shop and Café Limited | England & Wales | £478 |
| 2602524/2019 | 25 March 2021 | Ms A Pullin | Neovia Logistics Services (UK) Limited | England & Wales | — |
| 2409584/2020 | 25 March 2021 | Mr D Jones | Pennine Manufacturing Limited | England & Wales | — |
| 2304117/2018 | 25 March 2021 | Mr R M Baciley | Russell Court Limited | England & Wales | — |
| 1400138/2020 | 25 March 2021 | Miss J Duvall-Richards | Curo | England & Wales | — |
| 1402425/2020 | 25 March 2021 | Mr J Burke | Taylor Plant Limited | England & Wales | — |
| 1400373/2020 | 25 March 2021 | Miss AR Miner | Paul Buckingham | England & Wales | — |
| 2302312/2019 | 25 March 2021 | Ms Ferrario, Counsel For the | Mr Chaudhry, solicitor | England & Wales | — |
| 2203627/2020 | 25 March 2021 | MR FIRAS RAJABDEEN & ORS | Company M Limited (in voluntary liquidation) | England & Wales | £104,343 |
| 3321155/2019 | 25 March 2021 | In person For the | — | England & Wales | — |
| 3300057/2020 | 25 March 2021 | Mr Juraj Vysvader | The Garden Pub Ltd - The Woodman | England & Wales | £100 |
| 1304498/2020 | 24 March 2021 | In Person For the | Greene King Retail Services Limited | England & Wales | — |
| 3213046/2020 | 24 March 2021 | Ms Rosalie Key | Christian Kye Limited (Trading as Christian Kye) | England & Wales | £1,776 |
| 1309304/2019 | 24 March 2021 | Mr James Porter | Birmingham City Council | England & Wales | — |
| 2301354/2020 | 24 March 2021 | Mr W McGinty | Vistry Homes Limited | England & Wales | — |
| 2500047/2020 | 24 March 2021 | Mr W Danson | Secretary of State for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy | England & Wales | — |
| 1401712/2020 | 24 March 2021 | Mr N Foster | Contour Electronics Limited Heard By: CVP | England & Wales | — |
| 1401375/2020 | 24 March 2021 | Ms Z Stanislawczyk | Julia Polish Food Ltd | England & Wales | £2,840 |
| 1403144/2020 | 24 March 2021 | Mrs Julie Pugh | Omicways Limited T/A CGB Giftware | England & Wales | — |
| 1806282/2020 | 24 March 2021 | Mr. Eng | Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust | England & Wales | — |
| 1806276/2020 | 24 March 2021 | Ms A Symes | — | England & Wales | £1,091 |
| 3335037/2018 | 24 March 2021 | In person For the | John Franklin, solicitor | England & Wales | — |
| 3305863/2020 | 24 March 2021 | In person For the | — | England & Wales | — |
| 1602398/2020 | 24 March 2021 | Ms Margaret O’Connor | HC-One Limited | England & Wales | — |
| 1806793/2020 | 24 March 2021 | In Person | Churchill Harraton Limited | England & Wales | £63,829 |
| 1305005/2020 | 24 March 2021 | Mr Piotr Zielinski | Midland Stairs and Commercial Joinery Limited | England & Wales | £6,643 |
| 1602611/2020 | 24 March 2021 | Ms S. Riaz | Glamour Forever Ltd (R1) SG HR Ltd (R2) | England & Wales | — |
| 2304296/2018 | 24 March 2021 | Mr T Dracass, Counsel For the | — | England & Wales | — |
| 3202664/2020 | 24 March 2021 | Mr H Clark | Essex Glass & Windscreens Ltd | England & Wales | — |
| 2600273/2021 | 23 March 2021 | Miss M Kaur | Shape & Shine Ltd. | England & Wales | — |
| 4104121/2020 | 23 March 2021 | EMPLOYMENT TRIBUNALS (SCOTLAND) Case No: 4104121/2020 Mr J Humphrey | Drain Surgeon North East | Scotland | — |
| 2420090/2020 | 23 March 2021 | Mr G Beaumont | Ssc Services | England & Wales | — |
| 3307944/2020 | 23 March 2021 | Mrs C Howe | Studio 55 | England & Wales | — |
| 1400101/2020 | 23 March 2021 | Mr A Peck (Counsel) For the | — | England & Wales | — |
| 3306081/2020 | 23 March 2021 | Mr G Chaggar | Vascroft Contractors Limited | England & Wales | £5,531 |
| 2201491/2020 | 23 March 2021 | Mr Staph (Claimant’s husband) | — | England & Wales | — |
| 2300660/2020 | 23 March 2021 | Mrs R Dias | Chandni Chowk Banqueting Hall Ltd | England & Wales | £21,570 |
| 2301679/2019 | 23 March 2021 | Mr D Priscott | Elliott Group Limited | England & Wales | — |
| 2600965/2020 | 23 March 2021 | Mr J Rodda | Mr K Dodman | England & Wales | £8,325 |
| 2410662/2019 | 23 March 2021 | Mr P McCool | Unilever UK Limited | England & Wales | — |
| 3302755/2020 | 23 March 2021 | Mr J Ahmad | Oxford Policy Management Ltd | England & Wales | — |