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| Withdrawn | 1,632 | 11% |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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2204475/2020 | 6 November 2020 | in person For the | Pinpoint Partners Worldwide Ltd | England & Wales | £577 |
| 2409032/2020 | 6 November 2020 | Mr T Lunga | Moving Target Express Ltd | England & Wales | — |
| 1404018/2020 | 6 November 2020 | Mrs K Churchill | Cafeteria la Crowns Limited | England & Wales | £2,700 |
| 2303398/2019 | 6 November 2020 | Miss S Shah | Total Security Services Limited | England & Wales | £2,000 |
| 2500830/2020 | 6 November 2020 | Mr D Lilley | Ford Component Manufacturing Limited (In Liquidation) | England & Wales | — |
| 1804628/2020 | 6 November 2020 | Mr O Ogunbayo | Royal Mail Group Limited | England & Wales | — |
| 3324737/2019 | 6 November 2020 | Did not attend (written representations). For the | Reverend J Boyd and Mr M Stevenson, Treasurer. | England & Wales | — |
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 |
| 6 November 2020 |
| Mr R Woodford |
| Darlington Railway Hospitality Ltd |
| England & Wales |
| £3,250 |
| 2501164/2020 | 6 November 2020 | Mr C Metters | Darlington Railway Hospitality Ltd | England & Wales | — |
| 2406306/2019 | 6 November 2020 | Mr S Eckersley Respondent Taylors Confectioners Limited | Mr J Halson, Solicitor | England & Wales | — |
| 2501163/2020 | 6 November 2020 | Miss E Clarke | Darlington Railway Hospitality Ltd | England & Wales | — |
| 3311705/2020 | 6 November 2020 | Mr J Lees | Charles Ross Auctioneers Ltd Trading As Holloways Auctioneers | England & Wales | £24,648 |
| 2500295/2020 | 6 November 2020 | Mr R Potts | J and J Stanley Limited | England & Wales | £29,289 |
| 2203296/2020 | 6 November 2020 | in person For the | Mr. Webb (representative) | England & Wales | — |
| 1602036/2019 | 6 November 2020 | Mr C Hockley | Boyes Rees Architects Limited (In Administration) | England & Wales | — |
| 2204805/2020 | 6 November 2020 | Mr L Craggs | Jgoo | England & Wales | — |
| 3302818/2020 | 6 November 2020 | Miss C Voong | Progress Staffing & Recruitment Ltd | England & Wales | £5,308 |
| 3303930/2020 | 6 November 2020 | Mr D Gaughran | Energy Saving Group Ltd | England & Wales | £1,575 |
| 1305536/2020 | 6 November 2020 | In Person For | Mr TRG Wilkes | England & Wales | £8,606 |
| 1601391/2020 | 6 November 2020 | Mr D. Stimpson | — | England & Wales | — |
| 3306446/2019 | 6 November 2020 | In person For the | Mr R Walker, HR Director CONSENT | England & Wales | — |
| 2402521/2020 | 6 November 2020 | Ms S Okonkwo | Rating and Valuation Company Ltd FINAL HEARING | England & Wales | — |
| 2408764/2020 | 6 November 2020 | Mr A Lockhart | Citation Holdings Limited | England & Wales | — |
| 2307728/2020 | 5 November 2020 | Mr. J Huang | W.WingYip (London) Limited | England & Wales | — |
| 3306333/2020 | 5 November 2020 | Mr L Wilkinson | Berry Lodge Surveyors | England & Wales | £384 |
| 4114512/2019 | 5 November 2020 | Miss J A Henderson | - Solicitor Melissa McAllister t/a The Empire Bar | Scotland | — |
| 2416506/2019 | 5 November 2020 | Mr H Palmer | Century Care Limited | England & Wales | £1,109 |
| 2415099/2019 | 5 November 2020 | Mr C Thacker | Chrisalis Worldwide Limited | England & Wales | — |
| 1601109/2019 | 5 November 2020 | Mr R Proctor | Warwick Estates Property Management Ltd | England & Wales | — |
| 2301226/2019 | 5 November 2020 | Mr S Emmins | Lazerbeam Fire & Security Ltd | England & Wales | — |
| 3302318/2020 | 5 November 2020 | Mr J Fitzpatrick | Herongrange Ltd | England & Wales | £8,654 |
| 3302508/2020 | 5 November 2020 | Mr A Panneer Selvam | Matsya Dining Limited | England & Wales | £3,945 |
| 3302905/2020 | 4 November 2020 | — | Total Solutions Group (London) Ltd | England & Wales | £5,270 |
| 3305245/2020 | 4 November 2020 | Mrs J Young | Kirsty Hedger T/A The Cricketers Pub | England & Wales | £1,000 |
| 3302660/2020 | 4 November 2020 | Mr A Egan | International Tree Foundation | England & Wales | — |
| 3302902/2020 | 4 November 2020 | — | Total Solutions Group (London) Ltd | England & Wales | £3,141 |
| 1805026/2020 | 4 November 2020 | Amadeusz Wilbik | Kayas York Ltd | England & Wales | £927 |
| 1306025/2020 | 4 November 2020 | Mr N Wallbanks | Core Fulfilment Ltd | England & Wales | — |
| 3304155/2020 | 4 November 2020 | Mr Jones, Solicitor For the | — | England & Wales | — |
| 1307842/2019 | 4 November 2020 | — | Blacks Cheese Ltd and Others | England & Wales | £14,088 |
| 3325724/2019 | 4 November 2020 | Mr D Frame For the | Mr James Lamb and others | England & Wales | — |
| 1805278/2020 | 4 November 2020 | Mr D Hardcastle | Almondbury Garage Huddersfield Ltd | England & Wales | £1,223 |
| 3303429/2020 | 4 November 2020 | Mellow Yellow Ltd | Miss K Luke | England & Wales | £1,250 |
| 3303375/2020 | 4 November 2020 | Mr D Wood | Kerria Limited | England & Wales | £19,841 |
| 2202719/2020 | 4 November 2020 | — | E-Cargobikes.com Ltd | England & Wales | £11,250 |
| 1402099/2021 | 4 November 2020 | Mr S Colbert | Royal United Hospitals Bath Foundation Trust | England & Wales | — |
| 3300359/2019 | 3 November 2020 | Mrs T Heath | Town Tub (The Denes) Limited (in administration) | England & Wales | — |
| 1403013/2019 | 3 November 2020 | Mr M A Eke | Secretary of State for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy | England & Wales | £368 |
| 2601820/2020 | 3 November 2020 | Ms K Hancock | Standford Management Process Limited | England & Wales | £144 |
| 2602941/2020 | 3 November 2020 | Mrs T Beasley | Fairgrove Homes Limited | England & Wales | £11,403 |