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| Withdrawn | 1,632 | 11% |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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2416495/2019 | 12 June 2020 | Miss R Kenny | Jackson-McElligott Ltd | England & Wales | £4,232 |
| 2500565/2020 | 12 June 2020 | Mr M Meddings | John Harrison (stockton) Limited | England & Wales | — |
| 4114365/2019 | 12 June 2020 | Mr J Williams | Blachere Illuminations (UK) Limited | England & Wales | — |
| 4100405/2020 | 12 June 2020 | Mr C Forrester | KK Decor (Scotland) Ltd | Scotland | £6,650 |
| 1601025/2020 | 12 June 2020 | Mrs H Powell Mr P Davies | Michael Morgan | England & Wales | — |
| 2401268/2020 | 11 June 2020 | Mr PN Lanigan & Mr AS Lenehan | Extentia Group Limited (In Administration) | England & Wales | £187,063 |
| 1404208/2019 | 11 June 2020 | Mr M Burns | Response Engineering Solutions Limited | England & Wales | — |
| 1805260/2019 | 11 June 2020 | Mr M Randall |
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 |
| £1,407 |
| 2502580/2019 | 11 June 2020 | Mr I Short | Ik-Uk Limited | England & Wales | — |
| 2205007/2020 | 11 June 2020 | Mr G Gyimah | Commerzbank AG | England & Wales | — |
| 2500742/2019 | 11 June 2020 | Mr A Butta | Auckland Products Limited | England & Wales | — |
| 3328226/2019 | 11 June 2020 | Mr R Rahman | Gocode Academy Ltd | England & Wales | £948 |
| 3325514/2019 | 11 June 2020 | Mr Z Humayun | Pertemps Limited | England & Wales | — |
| 1402147/2020 | 11 June 2020 | Miss N Drake | British Solar Renewables Limited | England & Wales | — |
| 3319563/2019 | 11 June 2020 | Ms C Johnson | Flowerbx Limited | England & Wales | — |
| 3202585/2019 | 11 June 2020 | Mr M Lkhou Hourri | UK Investments & Development Ltd | England & Wales | — |
| 2500569/2020 | 11 June 2020 | Mr M Anderson | Digital Allies Limited | England & Wales | — |
| 1602045/2019 | 11 June 2020 | Mrs N Hicks-Brew | Mudiad Meithrin | England & Wales | — |
| 3201794/2019 | 11 June 2020 | Mr M Szlacheta | Logical Recruitment Partners Limited | England & Wales | £187 |
| 2502917/2019 | 10 June 2020 | Mr R MacAlister | Brewin Dolphin Limited | England & Wales | — |
| 1401234/2020 | 10 June 2020 | Mr D Forte | 3d Print Shop Ltd | England & Wales | £2,379 |
| 2401150/2020 | 10 June 2020 | Mr J Lockton | Mr A Clugston | England & Wales | — |
| 4100031/2020 | 10 June 2020 | Ms R Scott | PJGH Ltd t/a Papa Johns | Scotland | — |
| 2303864/2018 | 10 June 2020 | Mr G Cullip | RBDF Ltd | England & Wales | — |
| 1807090/2019 | 10 June 2020 | Mr D Lipinski | Next Retail Limited | England & Wales | — |
| 1308527/2019 | 10 June 2020 | Mr W Adshead & Others | 1) Aspray Transport Limited (in Administration) 2) The Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy CONSENT | England & Wales | — |
| 2600654/2020 | 10 June 2020 | Mr K Uzupa | Smokers Lutterworth Limited (T/a Smokers Smokehouse And Bar) | England & Wales | £1,668 |
| 2304453/2019 | 10 June 2020 | Mrs Jayna Mepani | Glow Eyebrow Bar Ltd | England & Wales | £2,197 |
| 1801860/2020 | 10 June 2020 | Mrs K Newton | Whitbread plc & Others | England & Wales | — |
| 1402932/2019 | 10 June 2020 | Ms Tracy Seviour | AND Wessex Tobacco Limited (In Voluntary Creditors Liquidation) | England & Wales | — |
| 3200350/2020 | 10 June 2020 | Miss T Brandy | So Criss House of Nails Ltd | England & Wales | — |
| 2500704/2020 | 10 June 2020 | Mr P Armstrong | Jlm Transport | England & Wales | — |
| 3314761/2019 | 10 June 2020 | Mr J Asselin | Modern Networks Limited | England & Wales | — |
| 1806785/2019 | 10 June 2020 | Ms C Cottam | Jamella Limited | England & Wales | — |
| 1811085/2018 | 10 June 2020 | Miss M White | Snowdrift Dry Cleaners Ltd (In Compulsory Liquidation) | England & Wales | — |
| 3322554/2019 | 10 June 2020 | Mr J Collado First | Randstad CPE Limited Second Respondent: Oliver Taylor | England & Wales | — |
| 2402307/2020 | 10 June 2020 | Ms P Taylor | Sofology Limited | England & Wales | — |
| 3200211/2020 | 10 June 2020 | Mr H Perryman | Taina Technology Limited | England & Wales | — |
| 1304859/2020 | 9 June 2020 | Mr A Black | Like Radio Ltd | England & Wales | — |
| 1403455/2019 | 9 June 2020 | Mrs E Hope | PRC Streamline Taxis | England & Wales | — |
| 1406326/2019 | 9 June 2020 | Mr M Bentley | First MTR South Western Trains Limited | England & Wales | — |
| 2500212/2020 | 9 June 2020 | — | Kyles Legal Practice Ltd | England & Wales | — |
| 1802233/2020 | 9 June 2020 | Mr M Fuller | R1) Shayam Brothers Limited & R2) Kularajah Nagularajah | England & Wales | £610 |
| 1400869/2020 | 9 June 2020 | Ms C Alexander | Tynton Group Limited | England & Wales | — |
| 1802256/2020 | 9 June 2020 | Mr A King | Bigclothing4u | England & Wales | £1,833 |
| 1404618/2019 | 9 June 2020 | Mr D Bond | Priory Education Services Limited | England & Wales | — |
| 1405436/2019 | 9 June 2020 | Miss F Mason | Mr R Green t/a The Balsam Nursery | England & Wales | — |
| 1304847/2020 | 9 June 2020 | Mr G Okunniga | Clifton Law Ltd Trading As Clifton Law Solicitors | England & Wales | — |
| 2504387/2019 | 9 June 2020 | Martin Clark | Stagecarriage Ltd | England & Wales | £2,800 |
| 1400837/2020 | 9 June 2020 | Mrs J Roberts | Maximus UK Services Ltd | England & Wales | — |