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| Withdrawn | 1,636 | 11% |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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1801243/2020 | 23 April 2020 | Miss K Enright | Hyundai L & C GmbH | England & Wales | £500 |
| 2416791/2019 | 23 April 2020 | Miss K Hetherington | Outrageous Nightlife (UK) Ltd | England & Wales | £868 |
| 2603552/2019 | 23 April 2020 | Ms S Phelps | SS Convenience Ltd | England & Wales | £4,984 |
| 2202860/2019 | 23 April 2020 | Mr S Walker | Mount Anvil | England & Wales | — |
| 2204140/2019 | 23 April 2020 | Mr J Mikula | Future Finance Loan Corporation Limited | England & Wales | — |
| 3203031/2019 | 23 April 2020 | Mrs S Poole | Redbook Accounting Limited | England & Wales | — |
| 2300996/2019 | 23 April 2020 | In person | — | England & Wales | — |
| 2414097/2019 | 22 April 2020 | Mr A Mazur | Impression Ltd | 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 |
| 2410630/2019 | 22 April 2020 | Mr M Dacks | Consilium Academies | England & Wales | — |
| 2304782/2019 | 22 April 2020 | Sarah Bonnici | The Foster Partnership Ltd | England & Wales | £5,482 |
| 1402892/2019 | 22 April 2020 | Miss L Purdy Mrs C Hare | White Daisy Catering Ltd (In Voluntary Liquidation) | England & Wales | — |
| 2300036/2020 | 22 April 2020 | Reiss Paige | The Foster Partnership Ltd | England & Wales | £10,215 |
| 1405986/2019 | 22 April 2020 | Mr S McGrath | SWL Security Services | England & Wales | — |
| 1404219/2019 | 22 April 2020 | Miss R Crocker & Miss N Cornish | Heidi Louise Morgan t/a Curae Home Care | England & Wales | £1,621 |
| 1400564/2020 | 22 April 2020 | Mrs T Williams | Priory School | England & Wales | — |
| 2300142/2020 | 22 April 2020 | Abbi Diamond | The Foster Partnership Ltd | England & Wales | £7,858 |
| 2300190/2020 | 22 April 2020 | Amanda Hopper | The Foster Partnership Ltd | England & Wales | £16,376 |
| 2304778/2019 | 22 April 2020 | Penny Ashton | The Foster Partnership Ltd | England & Wales | £9,135 |
| 2304822/2019 | 22 April 2020 | Rebecca Elizabeth Newman | The Foster Partnership Ltd | England & Wales | £20,286 |
| 2500372/2020 | 22 April 2020 | Mrs P Slater | Learning Curve Group | England & Wales | — |
| 2305228/2019 | 22 April 2020 | Liam Cleworth | The Foster Partnership Ltd | England & Wales | £7,490 |
| 2304771/2019 | 22 April 2020 | Jim Wright | The Foster Partnership Ltd | England & Wales | £8,050 |
| 2300206/2020 | 22 April 2020 | Christina Susan Foster | The Foster Partnership Ltd | England & Wales | £13,010 |
| 2300204/2020 | 22 April 2020 | Sally Ann Austin | The Foster Partnership Ltd | England & Wales | £27,295 |
| 2304750/2019 | 22 April 2020 | Paul Dickinson | The Foster Partnership Ltd | England & Wales | £50,631 |
| 2304805/2019 | 22 April 2020 | Michelle Ayres | The Foster Partnership Ltd | England & Wales | £18,263 |
| 2304759/2019 | 22 April 2020 | Michelle Latimer | The Foster Partnership Ltd | England & Wales | £26,413 |
| 2413754/2019 | 22 April 2020 | Miss A Hindley | RS Catering Solutions Ltd | England & Wales | £950 |
| 2304762/2019 | 22 April 2020 | Robert Newman | The Foster Partnership Ltd | England & Wales | £31,273 |
| 2304408/2019 | 22 April 2020 | Mrs S Hammett | Sira Care Home Ltd | England & Wales | £9,114 |
| 2304663/2019 | 22 April 2020 | Mrs S Locke | Sira Care Home Ltd | England & Wales | £5,106 |
| 2202118/2019 | 22 April 2020 | Miss R Geary | Michael And Ami Augousti | England & Wales | — |
| 1801247/2020 | 22 April 2020 | Ms S Matharu | Lola Rose Interiors Ltd. (In Voluntary Liquidation) | England & Wales | £2,616 |
| 3321296/2019 | 22 April 2020 | In person For the | — | England & Wales | — |
| 1402751/2019 | 22 April 2020 | 1. Mrs C McGuire 2. Miss C Tutt 3. Mrs W Jameson | White Daisy Catering Ltd (In Voluntary Liquidation) | England & Wales | — |
| 1400434/2020 | 22 April 2020 | Mr S Davis | Waterfront Cars Ltd | England & Wales | £5,087 |
| 2304836/2019 | 22 April 2020 | Rashpal Kaur | The Foster Partnership Ltd | England & Wales | £53,032 |
| 2414115/2019 | 22 April 2020 | Mrs J Evans | IT Answers UK Ltd | England & Wales | — |
| 2305230/2019 | 22 April 2020 | Maria Homewood | The Foster Partnership Ltd | England & Wales | £35,378 |
| 2304765/2019 | 22 April 2020 | Belinda Plummer | The Foster Partnership Ltd | England & Wales | £12,768 |
| 1600768/2019 | 22 April 2020 | Mr A Ball | Blueprint Life Limited | England & Wales | £3,960 |
| 2304768/2019 | 22 April 2020 | Mollie Telford | The Foster Partnership Ltd | England & Wales | £13,130 |
| 2500041/2020 | 22 April 2020 | Miss J Butt | Arvand River Ltd | England & Wales | £388 |
| 2304751/2019 | 22 April 2020 | Harry Evans | The Foster Partnership Ltd | England & Wales | £9,825 |
| 2304938/2019 | 22 April 2020 | Hazel Hills | The Foster Partnership Ltd | England & Wales | £11,467 |
| 1801236/2020 | 22 April 2020 | Mr P Whittaker | City of York Council | England & Wales | — |
| 1302321/2019 | 22 April 2020 | in person | No appearance DEFAULT | England & Wales | £56,692 |
| 2603470/2019 | 22 April 2020 | Mr S Selby | De Castro Haulage | England & Wales | £1,121 |
| 2304526/2019 | 22 April 2020 | Mrs D Majek | Sira Care Home Ltd | England & Wales | £4,794 |
| 2304781/2019 | 22 April 2020 | Vivien Betts | The Foster Partnership Ltd | England & Wales | £17,517 |