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| Withdrawn | 1,632 | 11% |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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2303567/2019 | 20 March 2020 | Miss K Thomas | 1) Optivo 2) Christina Barton 3) Suzie Woodhams | England & Wales | — |
| 3201545/2019 | 20 March 2020 | Mr Zhiqian Huang | China Unicom (Europe) Operations Limited | England & Wales | £52,352 |
| 2414720/2019 | 20 March 2020 | Ms MJ Stephens | Payswell Limited | England & Wales | £22,693 |
| 1304122/2020 | 20 March 2020 | Mr K Afzal | Extra Personnel Limited & Others | England & Wales | — |
| 1600363/2019 | 20 March 2020 | Ms D Burdynska | Johnsons Apparelmaster Limited T/A Afonwen Laundry | England & Wales | — |
| 2400882/2020 | 20 March 2020 | Ms U Patel | Spamedica Ltd | England & Wales | — |
| 1600408/2019 | 20 March 2020 | Mrs D Hughes | Tweedmill Textiles Ltd | England & Wales | — |
| 2301311/2019 | 20 March 2020 |
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 |
| Mr W Cooper |
| Vestey Foods UK Limited |
| England & Wales |
| — |
| 3301925/2020 | 19 March 2020 | Mr M Alpay | One Inflight Ltd | England & Wales | — |
| 1403650/2019 | 19 March 2020 | Mr D Stachura | Hydro Extrusion UK Ltd | England & Wales | £820 |
| 1800136/2020 | 19 March 2020 | Mr D Briggs | Covance Clinical and Periapproval Services Limited | England & Wales | — |
| 2504290/2019 | 19 March 2020 | Mr D Gaskin | Solarglide Limited | England & Wales | — |
| 2303788/2019 | 19 March 2020 | Mr S Pettit | Stuart Gready-Ocl Regeneration Ltd | England & Wales | — |
| 2410693/2019 | 19 March 2020 | Mrs S Prendergast | Capstone Care Limited | England & Wales | — |
| 2302972/2019 | 19 March 2020 | Mr D Little | Highline Ductwork Limited | England & Wales | £3,977 |
| 2305501/2019 | 19 March 2020 | Miss K Cashford | Peabody | England & Wales | — |
| 4100718/2020 | 19 March 2020 | Mr A Wilson | E&M Horsburgh | Scotland | £304 |
| 4114010/2019 | 19 March 2020 | Mr A Walsh | Total Habitat Limited | Scotland | £9,405 |
| 2600545/2020 | 19 March 2020 | Mr J McLaughlin | Chez Coore Ltd. | England & Wales | £1,803 |
| 2300686/2020 | 19 March 2020 | Mrs M Papierska | Philips And Woold Ltd (Dr John Phillips) | England & Wales | — |
| 4113078/2019 | 19 March 2020 | EMPLOYMENT TRIBUNALS (SCOTLAND) Case No: 4113078/2019 Mr R Muir | Earnock Limited t/a Earnock Builders | Scotland | — |
| 1400670/2020 | 19 March 2020 | Mr A Bolitho | Bristol And Somerset Fit Ltd | England & Wales | — |
| 2302841/2019 | 19 March 2020 | Mr N King | Moolands Ltd | England & Wales | — |
| 2504298/2019 | 19 March 2020 | Miss L Hicks | Varkeys Shoppings Ltd | England & Wales | — |
| 2300032/2019 | 19 March 2020 | Miss H Strathearn | Nuffield Health | England & Wales | — |
| 2415205/2020 | 19 March 2020 | Mr M Carr | AMAC Concrete Limited | England & Wales | £3,200 |
| 2602350/2018 | 19 March 2020 | Mrs CA Fuller | SSB Care Homes Ltd (In Administration) | England & Wales | — |
| 2304153/2017 | 19 March 2020 | Mrs H Hayward | Superior Cleaning Solutions Limited | England & Wales | — |
| 2500245/2020 | 19 March 2020 | Varkeys Shoppings Ltd | Miss Lisa Hicks | England & Wales | — |
| 2302168/2019 | 19 March 2020 | Ms H Earl | Capita Business Services Limited | England & Wales | — |
| 3321930/2019 | 19 March 2020 | Ms C Bright | Quality Home Care Anglia Limited (R1) Ian Allan (R2) | England & Wales | — |
| 2502040/2019 | 19 March 2020 | Mrs E Turnbull | The Towel Rail Ltd T/A The Yorkshire Linen Company (In Administration) | England & Wales | — |
| 4100634/2020 | 19 March 2020 | Mr D Crabb | Bryan Steele Carpets Ltd | Scotland | £6,996 |
| 3301926/2020 | 18 March 2020 | Miss P Inwood | Greene King Pub Partners | England & Wales | — |
| 2600124/2020 | 18 March 2020 | Mr H Richardson | Buckley Lamb Ltd | England & Wales | £13,484 |
| 2600090/2020 | 18 March 2020 | Mrs C Payne | Buckley Lamb Ltd | England & Wales | £11,251 |
| 2603636/2019 | 18 March 2020 | Ms J Briggs | Buckley Lamb Ltd | England & Wales | £11,625 |
| 2603708/2019 | 18 March 2020 | Miss T Brown | Buckley Lamb Ltd | England & Wales | £10,661 |
| 4102998/2020 | 18 March 2020 | Ms A Love | Paisley Indoor Bowling Club plc | Scotland | £0 |
| 2600099/2020 | 18 March 2020 | — | Pitchford v Buckley Lamb Ltd | England & Wales | £2,867 |
| 1403761/2019 | 18 March 2020 | Mr N Subnikovs | The Royal Oak | England & Wales | — |
| 1301981/2019 | 18 March 2020 | Miss E. Evans | Mr J. Hepworth | England & Wales | — |
| 2600107/2020 | 18 March 2020 | Miss L Cotterill | Buckley Lamb Ltd | England & Wales | £967 |
| 2204533/2019 | 18 March 2020 | Mr S Ambler | Vohkus Limited | England & Wales | £1,693 |
| 1800986/2020 | 18 March 2020 | — | John Bull Confectioners Ltd | England & Wales | £8,154 |
| 1403765/2018 | 18 March 2020 | Jane Elizabeth Crawford | Stedham with Iping Parish Council | England & Wales | £7,159 |
| 1800501/2020 | 18 March 2020 | Mr P Wilkinson | Tierney And Co Solicitors Limited T/a Tierneys Solicitors | England & Wales | — |
| 1403527/2019 | 18 March 2020 | Ms YJ Makani | Cherry Orchards Care Ltd | England & Wales | — |
| 1404218/2019 | 18 March 2020 | Mrs Samantha Champkins | AND Heidi Louise Morgan Trading as Curae Home Care | England & Wales | £10,834 |
| 2600192/2020 | 18 March 2020 | Mr I Murray | Buckley Lamb Ltd | England & Wales | £19,902 |