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| Withdrawn | 1,632 | 11% |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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1803603/2020 | 2 September 2020 | Mrs S Badshah | Castle Villas Ltd | England & Wales | — |
| 2202961/2019 | 2 September 2020 | Mr D Bainge | NatWest Markets plc | England & Wales | — |
| 2600583/2020 | 2 September 2020 | Miss M Reeve | Adjuvo (Midlands) Support for Living Limited | England & Wales | — |
| 2201037/2019 | 2 September 2020 | Ms M Krawczyk | Westbourne Management Services Limited | England & Wales | — |
| 3302692/2020 | 2 September 2020 | Mr P Armer | Geotech Soil Stabilisation Limited (in administration) | England & Wales | £16,018 |
| 3322373/2019 | 2 September 2020 | Mr N Gull | Satishouse LLP | England & Wales | — |
| 4113985/2019 | 2 September 2020 | — | Lookers plc and Lomond Motors Ltd | Scotland | — |
| 3323489/2019 | 2 September 2020 | In person For the Second Claimant: In person For the |
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 |
| Mrs Tomlin, Director |
| England & Wales |
| £6,300 |
| 3325788/2019 | 2 September 2020 | Mr M Cooze | Scottish Southern Energy | England & Wales | — |
| 3310914/2019 | 2 September 2020 | Mr J Taylor | Salcey Cabinet Makers Ltd | England & Wales | — |
| 2201489/2019 | 2 September 2020 | Ms T Laudati | Topshop Topman Limited & Others | England & Wales | — |
| 4114382/2019 | 2 September 2020 | 69(scot) claim dismissed on withdrawal rule EMPLOYMENT TRIBUNALS (SCOTLAND) Case No: 4114382/2019 Mr D Dalgarno | Ltd (In Liquidation) | Scotland | — |
| 1803797/2020 | 2 September 2020 | Mr A Dowsett | Sitel UK Ltd | England & Wales | — |
| 2205739/2018 | 2 September 2020 | Miss A Plevnik | Boerboel Trading LLP Jonathan Laidlow Michael de Majo | England & Wales | — |
| 4103489/2020 | 2 September 2020 | Ms B Gauntlett | Ability Hotels (Aberdeen) Ltd | Scotland | — |
| 1805139/2019 | 1 September 2020 | Mr R Cowper | AJ Building (Hull) Ltd | England & Wales | — |
| 1802955/2020 | 1 September 2020 | The Claimant in person | — | England & Wales | — |
| 2300562/2020 | 1 September 2020 | (1) Ms A Sequeira (2) Mr C Schafer | JJD Logistics Limited | England & Wales | — |
| 2202435/2018 | 1 September 2020 | Mr P Selvey | Schawk UK Limited | England & Wales | — |
| 2406196/2019 | 1 September 2020 | Mrs N Ross | (R1) North West Construction UK Ltd (R2) Wilsons Development & Construction Ltd | England & Wales | — |
| 3201472/2020 | 1 September 2020 | Mr C Bereanu | Wright Brothers Oyster House Limited | England & Wales | — |
| 1304441/2020 | 1 September 2020 | Miss J Francis | Birmingham Rathbone Society | England & Wales | — |
| 4103611/2020 | 1 September 2020 | EMPLOYMENT TRIBUNALS (SCOTLAND) Case No: 4103611/2020 Miss C Richardson | Oceanic Studios/National Campaigns Limited | Scotland | £1,136 |
| 1400159/2020 | 1 September 2020 | — | Rogers v Colten Care Ltd | England & Wales | — |
| 2405472/2020 | 1 September 2020 | Mr M Whalley | Graycon Hospitality Ltd | England & Wales | — |
| 3314944/2019 | 1 September 2020 | Mr P Johnston | Sears Property Limited | England & Wales | — |
| 1305347/2020 | 1 September 2020 | Mr S Bonner | Sainsburys Supermarkets Ltd | England & Wales | — |
| 1807558/2019 | 1 September 2020 | Miss A Lowe | Bonmarche Limited (In Administration) | England & Wales | — |
| 2203603/2019 | 1 September 2020 | — | Modgill v Wirex Ltd and others | England & Wales | — |
| 2200215/2013 | 1 September 2020 | Mr M Cooper | National Crime Agency | England & Wales | — |
| 3301615/2020 | 31 August 2020 | Afton Chemical Limited | Mr Malcolm John Foster | England & Wales | — |
| 3323576/2019 | 31 August 2020 | Mr Malcolm John Foster | Afton Chemical Limited | England & Wales | — |
| 3321374/2019 | 31 August 2020 | Mrs S Baker | Dawnies Little Stars Ltd | England & Wales | — |
| 3303667/2019 | 30 August 2020 | Mr N Beldi | Jewish Care | England & Wales | — |
| 3324799/2019 | 30 August 2020 | Mr S Jacobs | Joe Gordon | England & Wales | — |
| 3326076/2019 | 30 August 2020 | Miss E Cowie | Nationwide Pathology Limited | England & Wales | — |
| 3328669/2017 | 30 August 2020 | Ms R Mueller | Luminus Group | England & Wales | — |
| 3325380/2019 | 30 August 2020 | Mr R Boswell-Munday | Mixmate | England & Wales | — |
| 3335562/2018 | 30 August 2020 | Mr S Mihalache | Clipper Logistics plc | England & Wales | — |
| 3327679/2019 | 30 August 2020 | Mr F Csordas | Tradeteam | England & Wales | — |
| 3322245/2019 | 30 August 2020 | Mr M Pealez-Grisales | Atalian Servest Ltd | England & Wales | — |
| 3313761/2019 | 30 August 2020 | Mr A Lang & Others (Formerly Mr R Grappy & Others) | Abbott Datastore Limited | England & Wales | — |
| 3322129/2019 | 29 August 2020 | — | Buckinghamshire UTC and others | England & Wales | — |
| 3328250/2019 | 29 August 2020 | Verity Lee | CH&CO Group | England & Wales | — |
| 3312752/2019 | 29 August 2020 | Ms A Prout | Prior’s Court Foundation | England & Wales | — |
| 3302529/2020 | 29 August 2020 | Miss L Howe | Bedfordshire Flower Company | England & Wales | — |
| 3320642/2019 | 29 August 2020 | Ms L Atkins | Greenwood Academies Trust | England & Wales | — |
| 3303762/2020 | 29 August 2020 | Mr A Bean | Rotac Farms/TA ferry Marina/The Clubhouse | England & Wales | — |
| 1306643/2020 | 28 August 2020 | Mr L Dallison | WSP UK Limited | England & Wales | — |
| 4114742/2019 | 28 August 2020 | Ms P Mulligan | Wm Morrison Supermarkets Limited | Scotland | — |