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| Withdrawn | 1,636 | 11% |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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2416523/2019 | 2 March 2020 | Miss E Hales | Mothercare UK Limited (in administration) | England & Wales | — |
| 3202290/2019 | 2 March 2020 | Mr C Walters | St Paul’s Group YMCA | England & Wales | £831 |
| 4113491/2019 | 2 March 2020 | EMPLOYMENT TRIBUNALS (SCOTLAND) Case No: 4113491/2019 Miss N Adam | Serco Limited | Scotland | — |
| 1309159/2019 | 2 March 2020 | Miss G Matts | Castle Central Limited | England & Wales | — |
| 1601717/2019 | 2 March 2020 | Mrs Isla-Jane McEwan | Hywel Dda University Local Health Board | England & Wales | — |
| 3201505/2019 | 2 March 2020 | Mr W Soares | Pinder Reaux & Associates | England & Wales | — |
| 1309206/2019 | 2 March 2020 | Mr M Horton | Rebecca Taylor | England & Wales | £634 |
| 2300597/2019 | 2 March 2020 | Mr P Osagiede |
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 |
| England & Wales |
| — |
| 3202424/2019 | 2 March 2020 | Miss N Desouza | Radley Post | England & Wales | £85 |
| 1403590/2019 | 2 March 2020 | In person For the | — | England & Wales | — |
| 2200396/2019 | 2 March 2020 | — | Shera Operations Ltd | England & Wales | £1,216 |
| 2603457/2019 | 2 March 2020 | Ms M Samara | Domestic and General Group Ltd | England & Wales | — |
| 4101158/2020 | 2 March 2020 | EMPLOYMENT TRIBUNALS (SCOTLAND) Case No: 4101158/2020 Mr S Morning | NCT Leather Company Limited | Scotland | — |
| 1304326/2020 | 2 March 2020 | Mrs D Swift | Vista Training Solutions | England & Wales | — |
| 1300472/2020 | 2 March 2020 | Mrs J Pointon | Wireless Infrastructure Group | England & Wales | — |
| 3323496/2019 | 2 March 2020 | Mrs L Evans | HLJ Foods | England & Wales | — |
| 2414560/2019 | 2 March 2020 | Mr A Simmonds | Ellice Francis Group Limited | England & Wales | £5,812 |
| 3334271/2018 | 2 March 2020 | Mr P Asser | Burdoree Engineering Limited | England & Wales | — |
| 3321390/2019 | 2 March 2020 | Mrs A O’Sullivan | The Secretary of State for Justice | England & Wales | — |
| 3314008/2019 | 2 March 2020 | In person For the | Matadoors Security Solutions Ltd | England & Wales | — |
| 1304196/2018 | 2 March 2020 | In person For the | Mr Mohammed Imran Zaman and HC Hotel Operations Ltd (Dissolved) | England & Wales | £2,287 |
| 1307795/2019 | 2 March 2020 | Mr M Pigott | UBI Limited | England & Wales | — |
| 1306004/2018 | 2 March 2020 | Mr H Ali | Ecorys UK Limited | England & Wales | — |
| 2400569/2020 | 2 March 2020 | Mr S Simion | Outpay Ltd | England & Wales | £2,164 |
| 1402474/2019 | 2 March 2020 | Mr R Prettyjohns | Burrows Removals Limited | England & Wales | — |
| 2302232/2019 | 2 March 2020 | Mr R Cifonelli of Counsel For the | — | England & Wales | — |
| 1600587/2019 | 1 March 2020 | Mr Richard Andrew | Montgomery Waters Ltd | England & Wales | — |
| 2413967/2019 | 29 February 2020 | Mrs D Alletson | Rochdale Borough Council | England & Wales | — |
| 2414737/2019 | 29 February 2020 | Miss C Black | Walgreens Boots Alliance | England & Wales | — |
| 2400111/2020 | 29 February 2020 | Mr J Dullenty | Sapphire Utility Solutions | England & Wales | — |
| 2414091/2019 | 29 February 2020 | Miss N Shonick | St George's Medical Centre | England & Wales | — |
| 2416594/2019 | 28 February 2020 | — | Guaranteed Same Day Couriers Ltd | England & Wales | £3,300 |
| 2305186/2019 | 28 February 2020 | Mr M Sutton | Ceterna Group Limited | England & Wales | — |
| 2414583/2019 | 28 February 2020 | Mr L Sinclair | Grundy & Co Excavations Limited | England & Wales | — |
| 3324087/2019 | 28 February 2020 | Miss J Osborne | Argos Limited | England & Wales | — |
| 1404263/2019 | 28 February 2020 | Mr J Frost | Attu Limited | England & Wales | — |
| 2303076/2019 | 28 February 2020 | Mr A De’Ath | Thames Reach Ltd | England & Wales | — |
| 2600027/2020 | 28 February 2020 | Miss S Bell | Premier Trade Ltd | England & Wales | £4,568 |
| 2504150/2019 | 28 February 2020 | Mr B MacKinnon | Josepth South-gate Smith | England & Wales | — |
| 2301269/2019 | 28 February 2020 | Mr L. Duddridge | MatchWare Limited | England & Wales | £801 |
| 2300305/2020 | 28 February 2020 | Mr O Brewer | Mascolo Group Limited | England & Wales | — |
| 1403196/2019 | 28 February 2020 | Mr J Hackwell For the | A.J. Nehlig & Co Limited | England & Wales | £18,336 |
| 2416699/2019 | 28 February 2020 | Mrs K Webster | Friday Media Group Limited | England & Wales | — |
| 2410407/2019 | 28 February 2020 | Miss L Crabbe, Miss J Carroll, Mr J Richter, Miss L Hudson, Mr A Johnson, Mr M Davies, Miss N Stenson, Mr R Owen, Ms J Lyle. | Asel Fashion Limited (in Creditors Voluntary Liquidation) | England & Wales | £7,225 |
| 2502730/2019 | 28 February 2020 | Mr C Olver | Escott Signs Ltd | England & Wales | — |
| 1403001/2019 | 28 February 2020 | Mr M Boncimino | Marchwood Engineering Ltd | England & Wales | — |
| 2600002/2020 | 28 February 2020 | Mr P Howseman | Richard Charles Thorpe T/A Southern & Thorpe Butchers & Others | England & Wales | £5,135 |
| 1403517/2019 | 28 February 2020 | Mrs J Eades | Smart Garden Products Ltd | England & Wales | — |
| 2400612/2020 | 28 February 2020 | Mr E Lawther | Bardsley Construction Limited | England & Wales | — |
| 2603576/2019 | 28 February 2020 | Mrs B Walker | J & M Mechanical and Fabrication Limited | England & Wales | £10,850 |