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| Withdrawn | 1,632 | 11% |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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1601418/2019 | 22 June 2020 | Mr C Bermingham-McDonogh | Panasonic Manufacturing (UK) Ltd | England & Wales | — |
| 2413845/2019 | 22 June 2020 | Mr J McCool | Heat Trace Limited | England & Wales | — |
| 2201479/2020 | 22 June 2020 | — | Evolution Corporate Acquisitions Limited | England & Wales | £50,691 |
| 2300942/2020 | 22 June 2020 | Ms D Masters | Gary Barlow t/a Skinners of Rye | England & Wales | — |
| 2402367/2020 | 22 June 2020 | Miss E Cimochowska | Cliffs Hotel | England & Wales | — |
| 2503670/2020 | 20 June 2020 | Mrs S Hart | Amiras News Ltd | England & Wales | — |
| 3201988/2019 | 20 June 2020 | Mr M Hunt | Informa UK Limited | England & Wales | — |
| 2503669/2019 | 20 June 2020 | Ms B Bates | Amiras News Ltd |
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 |
| England & Wales |
| — |
| 2600037/2020 | 19 June 2020 | Miss N Smith | Call Centre Ops Ltd (In Creditors Voluntary Liquidation) | England & Wales | £1,360 |
| 2201244/2020 | 19 June 2020 | Miss S Pradhan | Humatica | England & Wales | — |
| 3306552/2019 | 19 June 2020 | Ms E Woods | The Principal and Fellows of St Hilda’s College Oxford | England & Wales | — |
| 3200495/2020 | 19 June 2020 | Mr S Badlani | Protegrity Europe Limited | England & Wales | — |
| 3324251/2019 | 19 June 2020 | Mr M Yon | PPC Construction Ltd | England & Wales | — |
| 2305004/2020 | 19 June 2020 | Mrs C Boateng | London Borough of Croydon | England & Wales | — |
| 1806449/2019 | 19 June 2020 | Mr A Asghar | Kashmir Crown Bakeries Ltd | England & Wales | — |
| 1309662/2020 | 19 June 2020 | Mrs Margaret Ford Representative - Mr Ahmed - Counsel | Lillian Rose Walker t/a Sue and Sally’s Card Shop Representative - Mr A Walker – Husband of Lillian Rose Walker | England & Wales | £10,092 |
| 3322341/2019 | 18 June 2020 | Mr J Dixon | Travis Perkins plc | England & Wales | — |
| 2405351/2020 | 18 June 2020 | Mr J Bird | In Touch Networks Limited | England & Wales | — |
| 3320063/2019 | 18 June 2020 | Mr J Olney | Buckinghamshire College Group | England & Wales | — |
| 2410980/2019 | 18 June 2020 | Ms A Spurr | Galliford Try Employment Limited | England & Wales | — |
| 1308803/2019 | 18 June 2020 | Mr McConville, Lay Representative, with the claimant in attendance | — | England & Wales | £844 |
| 1801690/2020 | 18 June 2020 | Mr B Wrigley | Wm Morrisons Supermarkets Limited | England & Wales | — |
| 2303055/2018 | 18 June 2020 | Mr A Garg | Ispecialist Ltd | England & Wales | — |
| 3321562/2019 | 18 June 2020 | Miss E Tooley | Playschool Nursery Ltd | England & Wales | — |
| 2202229/2019 | 18 June 2020 | Mr S Thompson | Collinson (Central Services) Ltd | England & Wales | — |
| 4101157/2020 | 18 June 2020 | Mr G Lunan | The Wee Fish Shop Limited | Scotland | £342 |
| 2402526/2020 | 18 June 2020 | Mrs L Smith Mrs C Friend | Tony Shanley (in his capacity as executor of the estate of Catherine Shanley) | England & Wales | £23,237 |
| 3319535/2019 | 18 June 2020 | Mr J Cairns | Nestle UK Ltd | England & Wales | — |
| 1600734/2020 | 18 June 2020 | Mr Z Stevenson | Lyons Holiday Park Limited Heard: via video | England & Wales | — |
| 3321061/2019 | 18 June 2020 | Mr S le Her | Griggs and Mackay (Design) Limited | England & Wales | — |
| 1306134/2019 | 18 June 2020 | Mrs J Lewis | West Midlands Ambulance University NHS Foundation Trust | England & Wales | — |
| 2200496/2019 | 18 June 2020 | Mr A Ali | Notting Hill Genesis | England & Wales | £185 |
| 3200631/2019 | 17 June 2020 | Miss C Arthur | Premier Carewaiting Ltd | England & Wales | — |
| 1300137/2020 | 17 June 2020 | Mrs KA Horwood | Baldwins Holdings Ltd | England & Wales | — |
| 1300043/2020 | 17 June 2020 | Ms R Mayinga | University Hospitals Birmingham | England & Wales | — |
| 2414714/2019 | 17 June 2020 | Mr K McQuire | Change Hospitality Ltd | England & Wales | £1,900 |
| 2202423/2019 | 17 June 2020 | Mr J Lopez (Counsel) | — | England & Wales | — |
| 1300160/2020 | 17 June 2020 | Miss E Dovydaitis | Charter Court Financial Services | England & Wales | — |
| 2406142/2019 | 17 June 2020 | Ms T Howarth | Calderprint Ltd (In Administration) | England & Wales | — |
| 1300347/2020 | 17 June 2020 | Mr R Leppington | Darren Coombes | England & Wales | — |
| 1300056/2020 | 17 June 2020 | Miss F Carapinha | Sandwell and West Birmingham Hospitals NHS Trust | England & Wales | — |
| 1302422/2019 | 17 June 2020 | Miss N Clewes | Temps Limited & Others | England & Wales | — |
| 1802854/2020 | 16 June 2020 | Miss S Alderson | Clear My Credit Ltd | England & Wales | — |
| 3302517/2020 | 16 June 2020 | Mr G Allen | — | England & Wales | £16,295 |
| 3202129/2019 | 16 June 2020 | Mrs N Ash | Marston's Trading Ltd | England & Wales | — |
| 2305134/2019 | 16 June 2020 | Ms L-J Petherick | 1) London Care Limited 2) Mr Michael Anifowose | England & Wales | — |
| 2403430/2020 | 16 June 2020 | Mr M Azzouni | Italian Express Ltd | England & Wales | £2,678 |
| 2600232/2020 | 16 June 2020 | Mrs C Ryan | Hear4u & Healthscreen Ltd | England & Wales | — |
| 1304536/2020 | 16 June 2020 | Mr T Sharma | Tamatanga Ltd (in Creditors' Voluntary Liquidation) | England & Wales | — |
| 1800507/2020 | 16 June 2020 | Melissa McSherry | SAMY Limited | England & Wales | — |