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| Withdrawn | 1,632 | 11% |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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1300369/2020 | 6 July 2020 | Mr D Biddulph | Wincanton Group Limited | England & Wales | — |
| 1300259/2020 | 6 July 2020 | Miss M Hinkley | Cobs Bar Limited | England & Wales | — |
| 4111450/2019 | 6 July 2020 | Mr R Wilson | Border Cars Group Ltd (in Administration) | Scotland | — |
| 1801216/2020 | 6 July 2020 | Mr S Fitzgerald | SSE Contracting Limited | England & Wales | — |
| 3311632/2023 | 6 July 2020 | Mr M Kerita | BMW (UK) Manufacturing Limited | England & Wales | — |
| 1305972/2019 | 6 July 2020 | Mr M Mustard | Michelle Fitzpatrick | England & Wales | — |
| 1300194/2020 | 6 July 2020 | Ms E- Scrivens | Madinatul Uloom Al Islamiya | England & Wales | — |
| 2501252/2020 | 4 July 2020 | Miss E Rumsby | Ali Pourzeinali | 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 |
| £1,120 |
| 3322196/2019 | 4 July 2020 | Miss D Smith | Jaspers Catering Services | England & Wales | — |
| 3200601/2019 | 4 July 2020 | Mr M Grecco | Mitie Security Limited | England & Wales | — |
| 2500268/2020 | 3 July 2020 | — | Theresa McLoughlin and others | England & Wales | £2,162 |
| 2400971/2020 | 3 July 2020 | Mr R Miller | Funky Owl (DAK) Limited | England & Wales | £223 |
| 2304440/2019 | 3 July 2020 | Mr C Braden | AFD Pubs Ltd | England & Wales | £1,445 |
| 2400957/2020 | 3 July 2020 | Ms C Toppon Mrs B Jones Mrs T Graham Ms K Gordon Ms M Harvey Ms N Morris Ms C Gyte Ms D Nichols Mrs M Doyle Ms Jodie Doyle Ms Joanne Doyle | Funky Owl (DAK) Limited | England & Wales | — |
| 2400958/2020 | 3 July 2020 | Mr D Gill | Funky Owl (DAK) Limited | England & Wales | £1,247 |
| 2400966/2020 | 3 July 2020 | Ms C Rainbow | Funky Owl (DAK) Limited | England & Wales | £523 |
| 2400964/2020 | 3 July 2020 | Mr R Harrison | Funky Owl (DAK) Limited | England & Wales | £179 |
| 1401993/2020 | 3 July 2020 | Mr B Kubecki | NHL 61 Management Limited | England & Wales | — |
| 2400963/2020 | 3 July 2020 | Ms C Barker | Funky Owl (DAK) Limited | England & Wales | £382 |
| 1302298/2019 | 3 July 2020 | Mr U Altaf | Homeserve Membership Limited | England & Wales | — |
| 2201065/2020 | 3 July 2020 | Mr A Jammeh | Securitas Security Company (UK) Ltd | England & Wales | — |
| 2400951/2020 | 3 July 2020 | Ms M Skinner | Funky Owl (DAK) Limited | England & Wales | £833 |
| 2400956/2020 | 3 July 2020 | Ms K Beeston | Funky Owl (DAK) Limited | England & Wales | £824 |
| 1802670/2020 | 3 July 2020 | Mr A Keane | Linburg Coach Travel | England & Wales | — |
| 2400955/2020 | 3 July 2020 | Mr P Hooton | Funky Owl (DAK) Limited | England & Wales | £948 |
| 1401119/2020 | 3 July 2020 | Mr W Price | Paul Hingston t/a The White Horse | England & Wales | £2,260 |
| 1400782/2019 | 3 July 2020 | Ms K Sewell | Trago Mills Limited | England & Wales | — |
| 2400969/2020 | 3 July 2020 | Ms A Rafferty | Funky Owl (DAK) Limited | England & Wales | £1,566 |
| 2400953/2020 | 3 July 2020 | Ms E Challoner | Funky Owl (DAK) Limited | England & Wales | £250 |
| 2400974/2020 | 3 July 2020 | Ms S Brady | Funky Owl (DAK) Limited | England & Wales | £251 |
| 2300145/2020 | 3 July 2020 | Mrs K Marden | Town and Country Cleaners Ltd | England & Wales | — |
| 1401790/2020 | 3 July 2020 | Mr K Legutko | RTJ Automation and Maintenance Ltd | England & Wales | £4,647 |
| 2400965/2020 | 3 July 2020 | Ms K Burns | Funky Owl (DAK) Limited | England & Wales | £390 |
| 1304132/2020 | 3 July 2020 | Mr T Nightingale | M J Sections Limited | England & Wales | — |
| 1401994/2020 | 3 July 2020 | Ms K Matysek | Rajani Superstore Ltd | England & Wales | £745 |
| 4111134/2019 | 3 July 2020 | Mrs Karen Urquhart | Represented by Mr F Lefevre Solicitor Temple Medical Ltd | Scotland | £9,351 |
| 1402269/2020 | 3 July 2020 | Mrs E Lyden | Startime Pattiserie | England & Wales | — |
| 2500266/2020 | 3 July 2020 | — | Theresa McLoughlin and others | England & Wales | £2,293 |
| 4100471/2020 | 3 July 2020 | Mr E Robertson | Motor Mile Motors (Tayside) Limited | Scotland | — |
| 2413801/2019 | 3 July 2020 | Mr N O’HaremR | Q D Services Limited | England & Wales | — |
| 3100063/2013 | 3 July 2020 | — | Elite Transport Services Ltd | England & Wales | — |
| 1400712/2020 | 3 July 2020 | Mrs S Marks | Celia Austin t/a Capital Cake Craft | England & Wales | — |
| 2400978/2020 | 3 July 2020 | Ms D Simms | Funky Owl (DAK) Limited | England & Wales | £445 |
| 2400968/2020 | 3 July 2020 | Mr T Foster | Funky Owl (DAK) Limited | England & Wales | £426 |
| 1405450/2019 | 3 July 2020 | — | Bupa Care Homes (GL) Ltd | England & Wales | — |
| 2400954/2020 | 3 July 2020 | Ms J Jackson | Funky Owl (DAK) Limited | England & Wales | £225 |
| 2400916/2020 | 3 July 2020 | Ms A Bowden | DTM Brickwork Limited | England & Wales | £7,332 |
| 2411270/2019 | 3 July 2020 | Miss K Wysocka | T & G Fast Foods Developments Ltd t/a Spudulike (in administration) | England & Wales | — |
| 3200510/2020 | 2 July 2020 | Mr A Haile | UK Solutions Ltd | England & Wales | £456 |
| 2410359/2019 | 2 July 2020 | Mrs S Cleary | The Manchester Washhouse Limited | England & Wales | — |