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| Withdrawn | 1,636 | 11% |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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2200910/2019 | 1 May 2020 | Ms S Garner, of Counsel For the | Mr W Clayton, Solicitor | England & Wales | — |
| 1304119/2020 | 1 May 2020 | Mrs M Travis | JK Caring For You | England & Wales | — |
| 1800480/2020 | 1 May 2020 | Mr G Cockshott | Tog24 Limited | England & Wales | — |
| 2600848/2020 | 1 May 2020 | Mr SM Lewis | Absolute Heating (Midlands) Limited | England & Wales | — |
| 2405839/2019 | 1 May 2020 | Mr A Ahmad | Tensar International Ltd | England & Wales | — |
| 4110316/2021 | 1 May 2020 | Miss S Messi | All People Employment Ltd | Scotland | — |
| 4108155/2019 | 1 May 2020 | — | Boilers on Finance Ltd (in Liquidation) | Scotland | — |
| 3311938/2020 | 1 May 2020 | Mr Stephen Kattau For the | Mr M Rapley | 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 | Network Rail Infrastructure Limited | 24 |
| £4,762 |
| 2600732/2020 | 1 May 2020 | Mr. T Whitfield | RGMM Limited | England & Wales | £3,818 |
| 1304929/2020 | 1 May 2020 | Miss T Pryce | Katie J Moore T/a JK Caring for you | England & Wales | — |
| 1801586/2020 | 1 May 2020 | In person For the | Mr Husnain (legal advisor) | England & Wales | — |
| 4100160/2022 | 1 May 2020 | Mrs E Lew-Gorzynska | David Cargill House | Scotland | £282 |
| 4107481/2020 | 1 May 2020 | Mr A Yakin | Reliance (AB) Limited | Scotland | £1,744 |
| 1304928/2020 | 1 May 2020 | Mrs S Byram | Katie J Moore T/a JK Caring for you | England & Wales | — |
| 1800662/2020 | 1 May 2020 | Mr P Aujla | Bestway Wholesale Limited | England & Wales | — |
| 2200031/2020 | 1 May 2020 | Mr J Choudhury | Gatehouse Bank plc | England & Wales | — |
| 2200286/2020 | 1 May 2020 | Ms A Werhun-Mozdzen | Portico Ealing Ltd | England & Wales | £13,723 |
| 2205207/2019 | 30 April 2020 | — | Education Dream Ltd | England & Wales | £825 |
| 2302206/2019 | 30 April 2020 | Mr J Williams | Ward Security Ltd | England & Wales | — |
| 1403111/2019 | 30 April 2020 | Miss J Sandhu | Fujitsu Services Ltd | England & Wales | — |
| 2303105/2019 | 30 April 2020 | — | Manro v Costain Engineering and Construction Ltd | England & Wales | — |
| 2411291/2019 | 30 April 2020 | Mr I Clegg | David Phillips Furniture Limited | England & Wales | — |
| 2303594/2019 | 30 April 2020 | Mr J Aka | Flight Centre Moneywise Ltd | England & Wales | — |
| 2303632/2019 | 30 April 2020 | Mr K Ologunebi | Weston College | England & Wales | — |
| 2600636/2020 | 30 April 2020 | Mrs D Huckerby | Derbyshire Fire and Rescue Service | England & Wales | — |
| 2400887/2020 | 30 April 2020 | 1. Unilever UK Limited 2. Unilever plc 3. Unilever UK Central Resources Limited | Mr C Cooper | England & Wales | — |
| 2301866/2019 | 30 April 2020 | Miss E Miller | County Solicitors Ltd | England & Wales | — |
| 2500214/2020 | 30 April 2020 | Ms Kiran Shafiq | Elle Hair & Beauty Salon (North East) Ltd | England & Wales | £1,589 |
| 1308956/2019 | 30 April 2020 | Miss B Lea | Christine Wylie | England & Wales | £100 |
| 1403729/2018 | 30 April 2020 | Ms J Pranczk For the | Ms Weatherly, In House Solicitor | England & Wales | — |
| 1404107/2019 | 30 April 2020 | Mrs J Bird | Elior UK plc | England & Wales | — |
| 2301796/2019 | 30 April 2020 | Ms C Hayes | McDonald’s Manor Restaurants Ltd | England & Wales | — |
| 1400660/2020 | 30 April 2020 | Ms A Robinson | Grayshott Linen Ltd | England & Wales | — |
| 2300889/2019 | 30 April 2020 | Ms L Mariani | Ofcom | England & Wales | — |
| 2302832/2019 | 30 April 2020 | Mr F Hibbert | London Hotel Group | England & Wales | — |
| 2301160/2018 | 30 April 2020 | Mrs L Crouch | 1) Kinleigh Limited 2) Duncan Blakelock | England & Wales | — |
| 1401254/2019 | 30 April 2020 | Mr S Gibbard | Unite Integrated Solutions plc | England & Wales | — |
| 2304445/2018 | 30 April 2020 | Mrs D Coventry | Risk Factory Limited | England & Wales | — |
| 2302707/2019 | 30 April 2020 | Mr B Clarke | William Hill Organization Limited | England & Wales | — |
| 2302332/2019 | 30 April 2020 | Miss K Leach | National Autistic Society Helen Allison School | England & Wales | — |
| 2304424/2019 | 30 April 2020 | Mr C Cooper | Unilever UK Limited | England & Wales | — |
| 2205306/2019 | 30 April 2020 | Ms N Taiebi | The Westminster Society | England & Wales | — |
| 2423625/2017 | 30 April 2020 | Mr D Harrison | Marpol Security | England & Wales | — |
| 2402554/2019 | 30 April 2020 | Mr R Earl | 1) Maj Law Limited 2) Marcus Ashley Johnstone | England & Wales | — |
| 1405473/2019 | 30 April 2020 | Mrs J Smart | Wroughton Parish Council | England & Wales | — |
| 2304085/2019 | 30 April 2020 | Mr B Brooker | Tesco plc | England & Wales | — |
| 2603476/2019 | 30 April 2020 | Mr D Sanders | Andrew Chaplin | England & Wales | — |
| 2414529/2019 | 30 April 2020 | Mr K Marrin | Baxters Supplies Limited | England & Wales | — |
| 2305548/2019 | 30 April 2020 | Mr P Proudfoot | Maypole Motors Ltd | England & Wales | — |
| 2410545/2019 | 30 April 2020 | Mrs D Bradley | HM Revenue and Customs | England & Wales | — |