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| Withdrawn | 1,632 | 11% |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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3315996/2019 | 18 July 2020 | Mr R Orlovics | Octaga Security Services Limited & Others | England & Wales | — |
| 3326269/2019 | 18 July 2020 | Mr A Hebditch | Narthan Moodley | England & Wales | — |
| 3303381/2020 | 18 July 2020 | Mr G Cann | Cooperative Group Limited | England & Wales | — |
| 3301770/2020 | 18 July 2020 | Mr P Crow | Bourn Golf & Country Club Limited | England & Wales | — |
| 3323593/2019 | 18 July 2020 | Ms S Ratcliff | Rob Cockerill t/a Clancy’s Of Eye & Others | England & Wales | — |
| 3322270/2019 | 18 July 2020 | Mrs A Juniper | Loan.co.uk Limited & Others | England & Wales | — |
| 3321587/2019 | 18 July 2020 | Mr G Kular | Sainsbury’s Supermarkets Limited | England & Wales | — |
| 3333884/2018 | 18 July 2020 | Mr D Gibbins |
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 |
| Barclays Bank UK plc |
| England & Wales |
| — |
| 3325499/2017 | 18 July 2020 | Miss R Cadd | Greensleeves Homes Trust | England & Wales | — |
| 2203448/2019 | 17 July 2020 | Mr R Meshram First | Tata Consultancy Services Limited Second Respondent: Entserv UK Limited | England & Wales | — |
| 2203478/2019 | 17 July 2020 | Mr F Ahmed | London Underground Limited | England & Wales | — |
| 2305568/2019 | 17 July 2020 | Miss M Mputo | Balako Archeo & Futura Ltd | England & Wales | £756 |
| 1400801/2020 | 17 July 2020 | Mr A Burns | Securitas Security Services (UK) Limited | England & Wales | — |
| 1801047/2020 | 17 July 2020 | Mr M Keenan | Workers Educational Association (WEA) Heard: Remote Hearing by Telephone | England & Wales | — |
| 3325479/2019 | 17 July 2020 | Mr P. Bednarski | Adpol London Ltd | England & Wales | £14,467 |
| 3313363/2019 | 17 July 2020 | Miss C Hawkins | More Local Ltd | England & Wales | — |
| 2201585/2020 | 17 July 2020 | Mr F Moretti | PML Services Limited | England & Wales | £1,558 |
| 1801078/2020 | 17 July 2020 | Mr M Barlow | Outwood Grange Academies Trust | England & Wales | — |
| 3314700/2020 | 17 July 2020 | Miss Darcey Foulser | Anthony Katrina Associates Limited trading as AKA Communications | England & Wales | — |
| 3319977/2019 | 17 July 2020 | Dr K Giannopoulos | NC Healthcare Limited | England & Wales | — |
| 1801153/2020 | 17 July 2020 | Mr K Zurek & others (see attached schedule) | J Rotherham Masonry Limited (in administration) | England & Wales | — |
| 1801999/2020 | 17 July 2020 | Mr C Smith | Linburg Touring Limited | England & Wales | — |
| 3325529/2019 | 17 July 2020 | Ms P Fallowfield | Bauhaus Educational Services Limited | England & Wales | £891 |
| 2300807/2020 | 17 July 2020 | (1) Mr A Tayson (2) Mrs N Tayson | Wentworth International College | England & Wales | — |
| 1802859/2020 | 17 July 2020 | Mr C Tordoff | Brosnans Limited | England & Wales | — |
| 1403021/2019 | 17 July 2020 | Mr P O’Callaghan of Counsel For the | — | England & Wales | — |
| 3324964/2019 | 17 July 2020 | Mr E Loukaides For the | Peninsula Business Services Limited | England & Wales | — |
| 2414509/2019 | 16 July 2020 | Miss S Ryan Miss D Baumber | Cheshire Packaging Group Limited (In Voluntary Creditors Liquidation) | England & Wales | — |
| 1306316/2019 | 16 July 2020 | Mr D West | Redditch Borough Council | England & Wales | — |
| 3334953/2018 | 16 July 2020 | Ms E El-Bashir | John Lewis plc | England & Wales | — |
| 1800699/2020 | 16 July 2020 | Mr S Dee | Royal Mail Group Limited | England & Wales | — |
| 1806376/2019 | 16 July 2020 | Ms R Collins | Samuel Smith Old Brewery (Tadcaster) | England & Wales | — |
| 2301331/2020 | 16 July 2020 | Mr S Jones | JG Appleford Ltd | England & Wales | £13,019 |
| 2500033/2020 | 16 July 2020 | Mr C Fairbairn | Ajk Thompson | England & Wales | — |
| 1802303/2020 | 16 July 2020 | Mrs K Hayes | Autozone (UK) Limited | England & Wales | — |
| 2301805/2015 | 16 July 2020 | Mr P Noailly | Moviken Limited (dissolved) | England & Wales | — |
| 1806782/2019 | 16 July 2020 | Mr J Benton | Elite Office Furniture (UK) Limited | England & Wales | — |
| 3201168/2018 | 16 July 2020 | Ms D Zion-Mensah | CT Plus (Yorkshire) Community Interest Company | England & Wales | — |
| 1401256/2020 | 16 July 2020 | Mr Peter Taylor | The Bradley Group UK Ltd | England & Wales | £1,456 |
| 2300368/2020 | 16 July 2020 | Mrs K Wild | Abbey Law Costs Consultants Limited | England & Wales | £11,888 |
| 2303263/2018 | 16 July 2020 | — | St Edward Homes Ltd (‘SEH’) and Others | England & Wales | — |
| 2400946/2020 | 16 July 2020 | Mr C Pulman | Valley View Dalton Limited | England & Wales | £2,993 |
| 2500860/2019 | 15 July 2020 | Mrs J Wolloms | CI Accountancy Limited | England & Wales | — |
| 4107323/2019 | 15 July 2020 | Mr M Trainer | Utilitywise plc (in Administration) | England & Wales | — |
| 3202524/2019 | 15 July 2020 | Miss K Dosanjh | Software Training London Limited | England & Wales | — |
| 1304857/2020 | 15 July 2020 | Mr M Scott | Sambeer Ltd | England & Wales | £5,938 |
| 2502801/2019 | 15 July 2020 | Mr I Edwards | Utilitywise plc (in Administration) | England & Wales | — |
| 1309210/2019 | 15 July 2020 | Miss R Jones | Haydn-Barlow Care Limited T/A Holmfield Nursing Home & Others | England & Wales | — |
| 2500847/2019 | 15 July 2020 | Miss L Cox | Utilitywise plc (in Administration) | England & Wales | — |
| 1803378/2020 | 15 July 2020 | Mrs U Grabowska | Carsio Ltd | England & Wales | — |