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| Withdrawn | 1,632 | 11% |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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1802065/2020 | 22 July 2020 | Miss K Chamberlain | [1] Tom Hazeldine t/a The Humber Bridge Hotel [2] Star Holdings (Humber) Limited Heard on 22 July 2020 This has been a remote hearing, by CVP (V): A hearing in person was not practicable because of the present restrictions due to Covid 19. | England & Wales | £1,356 |
| 2601989/2020 | 22 July 2020 | Ms K Garcha | Coping With Cancer In Leicestershire & Rutland | England & Wales | — |
| 2302985/2019 | 22 July 2020 | Claire Cruse, Solicitor For the | — | England & Wales | — |
| 2201347/2020 | 22 July 2020 | Mr R Watson | Infinite Software Limited | England & Wales | — |
| 2500260/2019 | 22 July 2020 | Miss P Chandler & others see schedule | Secretary Of State For Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy & Others | England & Wales | — |
| 3201350/2019 | 21 July 2020 | Mr A Hayde | Darren Wellman & Others | 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 |
| 3302625/2020 |
| 21 July 2020 |
| Mr D Leeks |
| — |
| England & Wales |
| £3,349 |
| 1600540/2019 | 21 July 2020 | In person For the | — | England & Wales | — |
| 2401657/2020 | 21 July 2020 | Ms E McGee | Rochdale Boroughwide Housing Limited | England & Wales | — |
| 1801848/2020 | 21 July 2020 | Mr D Pheasey | NG Bailey Limited | England & Wales | — |
| 2300154/2020 | 21 July 2020 | Ms Terri-Lea Gilbert | TNK Services Ltd | England & Wales | £6,449 |
| 2303258/2018 | 21 July 2020 | Mr P Troop, Counsel For the | Mr A Berk, Solicitor | England & Wales | £2,000 |
| 1400729/2020 | 21 July 2020 | - MR W GARBER FOR THE | - Mr J Martin | England & Wales | £569 |
| 2601402/2019 | 21 July 2020 | Ms A Purewal | Sandicliffe Limited | England & Wales | — |
| 1400116/2019 | 21 July 2020 | — | Rockstone Public House Ltd | England & Wales | £48,000 |
| 2408104/2020 | 21 July 2020 | Mr C Watson | Wallwork Nelson & Johnson | England & Wales | — |
| 1802610/2020 | 21 July 2020 | Ng Bailey Group Limited | Mr Daniel Pheasey | England & Wales | — |
| 1801372/2020 | 21 July 2020 | Mrs T Hughes | Miro | England & Wales | — |
| 2202199/2020 | 21 July 2020 | — | Global Coffee Shops Ltd T/a Caffe Vergnano 1882 and Luciano Franchi | England & Wales | £1,347 |
| 2201691/2020 | 21 July 2020 | Ms A Pober | Money and Pensions Services | England & Wales | — |
| 1802595/2020 | 21 July 2020 | Mrs S Woolford | TG Commercials (South Yorkshire) Limited | England & Wales | £375 |
| 3302229/2020 | 21 July 2020 | Mr M Aldridge | — | England & Wales | £8,462 |
| 3300118/2020 | 20 July 2020 | — | Reksio Food Ltd | England & Wales | £775 |
| 3200607/2020 | 20 July 2020 | Mr G Palmer | Stobart Aviation Services Limited | England & Wales | — |
| 2411527/2019 | 20 July 2020 | Ms M Bozorgnia | Kind Hearted Care Limited | England & Wales | — |
| 3322319/2019 | 20 July 2020 | Mr Daniel Frape | Machinery Technology Limited | England & Wales | £10,165 |
| 3304729/2018 | 20 July 2020 | Mr Varinder Gill (son) For the 1st | Purple Parking Ltd (In Administration) and Secretary of State for Business, Energy | England & Wales | £2,952 |
| 2402330/2020 | 20 July 2020 | Mr A Newton | Millbank Holdings Limited | England & Wales | — |
| 3314809/2019 | 20 July 2020 | Miss S Allison | Miss N Watson | England & Wales | — |
| 2302691/2019 | 20 July 2020 | In person For the | Stephen Spence | England & Wales | £10,575 |
| 1406437/2019 | 20 July 2020 | Mr T Newnham | HFC Prestige Manufacturing UK Limited | England & Wales | — |
| 2202148/2020 | 20 July 2020 | — | Peligoni Booking Services Ltd | England & Wales | £16,667 |
| 2201049/2020 | 20 July 2020 | — | The Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust | England & Wales | — |
| 2400061/2020 | 20 July 2020 | Mr P G Baines | NWE Logistics Limited (in Voluntary Liquidation) | England & Wales | £7,394 |
| 3200614/2020 | 20 July 2020 | Mr Andrew McCully | D. Salmon Cars Limited | England & Wales | £5,473 |
| 3322377/2019 | 19 July 2020 | Mr E Johnson & Others | Lorraine Wakerley | England & Wales | — |
| 3321681/2019 | 19 July 2020 | Mr B Greenwood | Rackspace Limited | England & Wales | — |
| 1402190/2018 | 19 July 2020 | Miss A Clark | London Borough of Harrow Civic Centre | England & Wales | — |
| 3321086/2019 | 19 July 2020 | Mr G Ward | Mansfield Property Maintenance Limited | England & Wales | — |
| 2410874/2019 | 19 July 2020 | Mr D Schofield | Purr-O-Lux Ltd & Others | England & Wales | — |
| 3314972/2019 | 19 July 2020 | Ms I Davies | One Housing Group Limited | England & Wales | — |
| 2416676/2019 | 19 July 2020 | Mr D Hargreaves | Travis Perkins plc | England & Wales | — |
| 3319394/2019 | 19 July 2020 | Mrs G Cadec | Royal Mail Group Limited | England & Wales | — |
| 3323593/2019 | 18 July 2020 | Ms S Ratcliff | Rob Cockerill t/a Clancy’s Of Eye & Others | England & Wales | — |
| 3327672/2019 | 18 July 2020 | Mr P Williams | BUPA Care Services Limited | England & Wales | — |
| 3335580/2018 | 18 July 2020 | Michelle Underwood | Arbonne International LLC | England & Wales | — |
| 3315996/2019 | 18 July 2020 | Mr R Orlovics | Octaga Security Services Limited & Others | England & Wales | — |
| 3325477/2019 | 18 July 2020 | Mr J Aslett | Dxc. Technology | England & Wales | — |
| 3303590/2020 | 18 July 2020 | Miss C Crabb | Chi Chi Collection Limited | England & Wales | — |
| 3321370/2019 | 18 July 2020 | Mr E Piterson | St Andrews Healthcare | England & Wales | — |