Claim pillar
Tribunal Watch has indexed 28,168 UK employment tribunal cases involving breach of contract claims, published on gov.uk since 2017. Where compensation was recorded, the median award was £4,050 (the largest £3,449,329) across 10,508 cases. Tribunals upheld 69% of the 12,143 decided breach of contract claims. These cases name 23,646 distinct employers as respondents.
| Outcome | Claims | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Upheld | 8,434 | 55% |
| Dismissed | 3,709 | 24% |
| Withdrawn | 1,636 | 11% |
| Struck out | 1,109 | 7% |
| Other | 429 | 3% |
| Settled | 128 | 1% |
| Year | Cases | Trend |
|---|---|---|
| 2017 | 321 | |
| 2018 | 636 | |
| 2019 | 3,862 | |
| 2020 | 5,472 | |
| 2021 | 3,723 | |
| 2022 | 3,560 | |
| 2023 | 3,377 | |
| 2024 | 2,991 | |
| 2025 | 2,667 | |
| 2026 | 1,559 |
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2305174/2019 | 13 May 2020 | Miss KA Peckham | East Sussex College Group (escg) | England & Wales | — |
| 1804860/2019 | 13 May 2020 | Mr PK Martin | PlanB Professional Services Limited | England & Wales | — |
| 2603431/2019 | 13 May 2020 | Mrs J Haywood | Buckley Lamb Ltd | England & Wales | £6,546 |
| 2301305/2019 | 13 May 2020 | Mr Z Solymosi | 2Box Limited | England & Wales | — |
| 2400676/2020 | 13 May 2020 | Ms B Liu | 1) Health Education England 2) St Helens and Knowsley Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust | England & Wales | — |
| 2603426/2019 | 13 May 2020 | Mrs J Lennox | Buckley Lamb Ltd | England & Wales | £9,777 |
| 2603430/2019 | 13 May 2020 | Mrs P Frost | Buckley Lamb Ltd | England & Wales | £8,424 |
| 2300439/2020 | 13 May 2020 | Mr S Husain |
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 | Network Rail Infrastructure Limited | 24 |
| Marsh Wall Ltd |
| England & Wales |
| £11,191 |
| 1801505/2020 | 13 May 2020 | Mr A Uridge | North Yorkshire County Council | England & Wales | — |
| 3202479/2019 | 13 May 2020 | Mrs M Paraia | Eden Brook Home Care Limited | England & Wales | £3,290 |
| 2302383/2019 | 13 May 2020 | Mr S Baldwin | MHS Homes Ltd | England & Wales | — |
| 2603428/2019 | 13 May 2020 | Mrs W Spizer | Buckley Lamb Ltd | England & Wales | £7,776 |
| 2603425/2019 | 13 May 2020 | Mrs A Hill | Buckley Lamb Ltd | England & Wales | £7,508 |
| 2603427/2019 | 13 May 2020 | Miss J Statham | Buckley Lamb Ltd | England & Wales | £25,480 |
| 2305562/2019 | 13 May 2020 | Mr Y Fang | Sean Smith | England & Wales | — |
| 2603429/2019 | 13 May 2020 | Miss J Savage | Buckley Lamb Ltd | England & Wales | £8,497 |
| 2401708/2019 | 13 May 2020 | Mr KG Martin | Bells Shoes Limited (In Liquidation) | England & Wales | — |
| 1804414/2019 | 12 May 2020 | Santoro Limited | Mr Godlove Quaye | England & Wales | — |
| 3203129/2019 | 12 May 2020 | Mr J Quane | Tower Hamlets Homes | England & Wales | — |
| 4101611/2020 | 12 May 2020 | Ms J Logan | Floricana Limited | Scotland | £21,062 |
| 2600051/2020 | 12 May 2020 | Mrs. J Tonge | Total Care Matters Limited | England & Wales | — |
| 2400155/2020 | 12 May 2020 | Mr R Grimes | Flextronics Global Services (Manchester) Ltd | England & Wales | — |
| 1801632/2020 | 12 May 2020 | Mr S North | BJW Cranes Limited | England & Wales | £787 |
| 2400710/2020 | 12 May 2020 | Miss MJ McGarvey | Brook Street (UK) Limited | England & Wales | — |
| 1800913/2020 | 12 May 2020 | Mrs J Coundley Miss C Skirrow | Fresh Training Services (uk) Ltd | England & Wales | — |
| 2601461/2018 | 12 May 2020 | Mrs. A Patel | Clearly Orthodontics Limited | England & Wales | — |
| 4101942/2020 | 12 May 2020 | Mr L Williams | Miller Plastering Limited | Scotland | £7,943 |
| 2603559/2019 | 12 May 2020 | Mr M Chiuta | Elis UK | England & Wales | — |
| 3202966/2019 | 12 May 2020 | Mr B Day | Sainsbury’s Supermarkets Limited | England & Wales | — |
| 4101949/2020 | 12 May 2020 | Ms A McIntosh | Marchmont Homes Limited | Scotland | £31,257 |
| 2201028/2020 | 12 May 2020 | — | Research Centre London Ltd | England & Wales | £11,667 |
| 2602946/2018 | 12 May 2020 | Mr AN Bright | Electrical Vehicle Installations Limited | England & Wales | — |
| 1308772/2019 | 12 May 2020 | Mr A Bowkett | DXCG Ltd | England & Wales | £7,514 |
| 1800378/2020 | 12 May 2020 | Mrs T Jeffrey | Phoenix Healthcare Distribution Limited | England & Wales | — |
| 2414447/2019 | 12 May 2020 | Ms P Estrada Vega | Bunzl Retail & Healthcare Supplies Limited | England & Wales | — |
| 4101891/2020 | 11 May 2020 | Mr D Cox | Specialist Computer Systems Ltd | Scotland | £5,725 |
| 1403330/2019 | 11 May 2020 | Mr P Giles | Never Despair Recycling Ltd | England & Wales | £1,165 |
| 4101951/2020 | 11 May 2020 | Mr D Pague | Taste Smokehouse Bar & Grill | Scotland | £3,010 |
| 2411415/2019 | 11 May 2020 | Mr P Wood | Lakeview Rest Homes Ltd | England & Wales | — |
| 1300390/2020 | 11 May 2020 | Mr T Allsop (solicitor) For the first | C & K E Banks Retail Ltd | England & Wales | — |
| 1601651/2018 | 11 May 2020 | Mr K W Jones | South Wales Wood Recycling Limited (in Liquidation) | England & Wales | — |
| 1801496/2020 | 11 May 2020 | Mr R Kenyon | The Secretary of State for Health and Social Care AT A PRELIMINARY HEARING BY TELEPHONE CONFERENCE CALL | England & Wales | — |
| 2200126/2020 | 11 May 2020 | — | Homeppl Ltd | England & Wales | £1,360 |
| 1403553/2018 | 11 May 2020 | Miss L Abrahams Miss L Chase Miss K Diaz Miss C Fitzgerald Miss M Diaz Miss K Farmer Mrs I Icheva Mr D Andreyeu | Botleigh Grange Hotel Ltd (in Administration) | England & Wales | — |
| 1404335/2019 | 10 May 2020 | Mr M Legg-Wilde | Thorncombe Sports and Social Club | England & Wales | — |
| 1403379/2019 | 10 May 2020 | Mr M Elliott | Radiotrade | England & Wales | — |
| 2302665/2019 | 7 May 2020 | Mr G McKivett | Quality Care Insurance Services Ltd | England & Wales | — |
| 3321649/2019 | 7 May 2020 | Miss A Tandi | JSA Services Limited | England & Wales | — |
| 1401695/2019 | 7 May 2020 | — | EMC Advisory Services Ltd (In Administration) and Others | England & Wales | — |
| 1600303/2020 | 7 May 2020 | Mr D Beynon | The Llynfi Arms Limited Date: 7 May 2020 | England & Wales | £1,190 |