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| Withdrawn | 1,632 | 11% |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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3322576/2019 | 13 October 2020 | Mrs J Farmer | James Seaton | England & Wales | £30,494 |
| 2300405/2020 | 13 October 2020 | Miss T Smith | Wentworth International College | England & Wales | £5,439 |
| 3200956/2019 | 13 October 2020 | Mr P Yates | Axonn Media Ltd | England & Wales | — |
| 1601167/2020 | 13 October 2020 | Mr William Bennett | D.P. Dennehy & Son Limited | England & Wales | £554 |
| 3202043/2019 | 13 October 2020 | Mr RM Vester First | Westex Ltd Second Respondent: The Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy DEFAULT | England & Wales | £11,200 |
| 3200918/2019 | 13 October 2020 | Mr J Nunes | Calita Ltd | England & Wales | — |
| 2603560/2019 | 13 October 2020 | Mr G Diss | Assisted Health & Mobility Limited | England & Wales | — |
| 3201475/2020 |
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 |
| 13 October 2020 |
| Miss Zella Davis |
| Clacton Snooker Centre Ltd |
| England & Wales |
| £4,543 |
| 1307499/2019 | 13 October 2020 | Mr D Wheatley | Union Fasteners Limited | England & Wales | £3,529 |
| 3202653/2019 | 13 October 2020 | Mr I Rothwell & others | Westex Ltd | England & Wales | — |
| 3200659/2020 | 13 October 2020 | Mr P Day | Colchester Construction Services Limited | England & Wales | — |
| 1602003/2019 | 13 October 2020 | Mrs E Roberts | Mrs M Echeverry (R2) Mrs Claire Price (R3) Mr Lewis Allcock (R4) | England & Wales | — |
| 1600507/2020 | 13 October 2020 | Mrs G Middleton | Mayflower Care Home Ltd | England & Wales | — |
| 2303252/2019 | 13 October 2020 | Ms J L Rudland-Wood | Premium Care Limited t/a Woodside Hall Nursing Home | England & Wales | — |
| 1600390/2019 | 13 October 2020 | Mr T Friswell | Aquarius Direct Maintenance (In Compulsory Liquidation) | England & Wales | — |
| 2406138/2019 | 12 October 2020 | Ms A Gerrard | Vivo Care Choices Limited | England & Wales | — |
| 2500946/2020 | 12 October 2020 | Mr C Hood | All Seasons Landscapes | England & Wales | — |
| 3322609/2019 | 12 October 2020 | Mr S Saeed, solicitor For the | — | England & Wales | — |
| 2303002/2020 | 12 October 2020 | Ms S Laing | Ravensbourne University London | England & Wales | — |
| 2401930/2020 | 12 October 2020 | Ms J Archibald | North Cumbria Integrated Care NHS Foundation Trust | England & Wales | — |
| 1801325/2020 | 12 October 2020 | Mr N Mullen | Joda Freight Limited FINAL HEARING | England & Wales | — |
| 3200592/2020 | 12 October 2020 | Mr M Samb | PWA Services Limited | England & Wales | £21,513 |
| 2500803/2020 | 12 October 2020 | Mrs M Hancock | North Tyneside Council | England & Wales | — |
| 2405490/2019 | 9 October 2020 | Ms M Mallinson | Mallinson Fabrications Limited | England & Wales | £3,718 |
| 3324512/2019 | 9 October 2020 | Mr M. Saxena | BP Exploration Operating Company Limited | England & Wales | — |
| 3325116/2019 | 9 October 2020 | Mr Joe Butler | Smartcomms SC limited | England & Wales | — |
| 2502825/2019 | 9 October 2020 | Mr A Quinn | Mabey Hire Ltd | England & Wales | — |
| 3324480/2019 | 9 October 2020 | Mr P Campos | Winkworth Machinery Limited | England & Wales | — |
| 2411191/2019 | 9 October 2020 | Miss S Waddington | Lifestyle Holidays Ltd | England & Wales | £1,750 |
| 3305129/2020 | 9 October 2020 | Mrs Tracey Parkes | — | England & Wales | — |
| 1800428/2020 | 9 October 2020 | Mr G Watson and others (see attached schedule) | Marcus Worthington And Company Limited (in Administration) | England & Wales | — |
| 3303602/2020 | 9 October 2020 | — | Antechs (St Ives) Ltd | England & Wales | £2,130 |
| 3201491/2020 | 9 October 2020 | Mr S Yusuf | EPP Group Ltd | England & Wales | £2,908 |
| 2602196/2018 | 9 October 2020 | Mr J Ink | Endeavour Recruitment Services Limited FINAL HEARING | England & Wales | — |
| 3306106/2020 | 9 October 2020 | Mr D Williams | — | England & Wales | £4,207 |
| 3202976/2019 | 9 October 2020 | Mr Alan Stuart | Andrews Excavations Limited | England & Wales | £2,128 |
| 4103810/2020 | 9 October 2020 | EMPLOYMENT TRIBUNALS (SCOTLAND) Case No: 4103810/2020 Ms M Agostini | R B MacGregor | Scotland | £4,023 |
| 3335150/2018 | 9 October 2020 | In person For the | — | England & Wales | — |
| 4104259/2020 | 9 October 2020 | EMPLOYMENT TRIBUNALS (SCOTLAND) Case No: 4104259/2020 Ms L Cunningham | Hair Internacionale Limited | Scotland | £9,229 |
| 4103516/2020 | 9 October 2020 | — | Primary Out of School Care | Scotland | £570 |
| 4104248/2020 | 9 October 2020 | Mr M Mitchell | Scot Direct Construction & Maintenance Ltd | Scotland | £2,234 |
| 3300652/2019 | 8 October 2020 | In person For the | — | England & Wales | — |
| 3301896/2020 | 8 October 2020 | Mr Richard Robinson | CSC Computer Services Ltd | England & Wales | — |
| 2300481/2019 | 8 October 2020 | Ms A Boahene | International Planned Parenthood Federation | England & Wales | — |
| 2501373/2020 | 8 October 2020 | Mr N Seaman | WSG Industrial Services UK Limited | England & Wales | £10,285 |
| 3302953/2020 | 8 October 2020 | Mr Dean Welsh | Stephen Wooster t/a Globe Leisure | England & Wales | £7,703 |
| 2414738/2019 | 8 October 2020 | Mr L Bookatz | — | England & Wales | £21,467 |
| 1800243/2000 | 8 October 2020 | Mr C Goodsell | Styrene Packaging and Insulation Limited | England & Wales | — |
| 2301759/2018 | 8 October 2020 | In person For the | — | England & Wales | £2,114 |
| 3319520/2019 | 8 October 2020 | Ms Z Alison | Asda Stores Limited | England & Wales | — |