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| Withdrawn | 1,632 | 11% |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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1804699/2019 | 22 January 2020 | Mr N Horn | Econ Engineering Limited | England & Wales | — |
| 2411315/2019 | 22 January 2020 | Ms J Dyson | Manpower UK Ltd | England & Wales | — |
| 2413863/2019 | 22 January 2020 | Mrs J Holgate | Mels Barbers Ltd | England & Wales | £1,305 |
| 1600772/2016 | 22 January 2020 | Mrs J Climer-Jones | Cardiff and Vale University Local Health Board | England & Wales | — |
| 2411368/2019 | 22 January 2020 | Mr C Realey | Harry Demetrios | England & Wales | — |
| 2500190/2019 | 22 January 2020 | Mr C King | Healthcare Environmental Services Limited (in compulsory liquidation) | England & Wales | — |
| 2302889/2019 | 22 January 2020 | Mr L Wadey | Green Cross Recruitment | England & Wales | — |
| 2203771/2019 | 22 January 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 |
| Stacey Employment Services Ltd |
| England & Wales |
| £1,069 |
| 2411274/2019 | 22 January 2020 | Mr J Hornby | Kirkham Engineering Company Limited | England & Wales | — |
| 1300395/2019 | 22 January 2020 | Mr M Hussain | Rai Sahib | England & Wales | — |
| 3328362/2017 | 22 January 2020 | In person For the | Mr J Ward, Solicitor | England & Wales | — |
| 1806410/2019 | 22 January 2020 | In person For the | Good and Co Solicitors | England & Wales | — |
| 2411196/2019 | 22 January 2020 | Miss H Arkwright | Unique Homecare Services Ltd | England & Wales | — |
| 3201083/2018 | 22 January 2020 | Mr A Ciappei | Forcepoint UK Ltd | England & Wales | — |
| 2600755/2019 | 22 January 2020 | Mrs A Sniadkowska | Max Plus Global UK Ltd | England & Wales | — |
| 2413834/2019 | 22 January 2020 | Mr C Weaver | The Co-Operative Group Ltd | England & Wales | — |
| 3333563/2018 | 22 January 2020 | In person For the | — | England & Wales | — |
| 2406218/2019 | 22 January 2020 | Mr S Slater | Jaguar Land Rover Limited | England & Wales | — |
| 2504303/2019 | 22 January 2020 | Mr John Storey | Hetton le Hill Community Golf Club Limited | England & Wales | £4,712 |
| 1807398/2019 | 22 January 2020 | Ms J Douglass | Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust | England & Wales | — |
| 2204976/2019 | 22 January 2020 | Ms N Peprah-Boadu First | Intergence Systems Limited Second Respondent: The London Metal Exchange | England & Wales | — |
| 2301266/2018 | 22 January 2020 | Mr M Unachukwu | Greenwich Services Plus Limited | England & Wales | £34,715 |
| 2404943/2019 | 21 January 2020 | Mr L Redikin | Automatic Fire Suppression Limited | England & Wales | £9,137 |
| 2303134/2018 | 21 January 2020 | Mr P Brazier | Red Top Ltd t/a Simon Marden Estate Agents | England & Wales | — |
| 1602011/2019 | 21 January 2020 | Mr Benjamin Harris | Red Storm Fashion Agency Limited | England & Wales | — |
| 2203069/2019 | 21 January 2020 | — | Plitnikaite v MGM Chartered Architects Ltd | England & Wales | £1,701 |
| 2405045/2019 | 21 January 2020 | Mr N Jeffery | Singh & Donaldson Ltd | England & Wales | — |
| 2603305/2019 | 21 January 2020 | Mr R Woodcock | Robsons Of Spalding Limited T/a Robsons | England & Wales | — |
| 3321040/2019 | 21 January 2020 | Ms N Timms | Ipsen Biopharm Limited | England & Wales | — |
| 2602503/2018 | 21 January 2020 | Mrs J Cropper | British Telecommunications plc | England & Wales | — |
| 2203982/2019 | 21 January 2020 | Mr C Mann | Ryalto Ltd | England & Wales | £5,017 |
| 3319968/2019 | 21 January 2020 | Mr Clements, Solicitor. For the | Mr Rockingham, Chief Executive Officer. | England & Wales | £17,081 |
| 2410704/2019 | 21 January 2020 | Mr N Elgey | Citadel Homes Limited | England & Wales | — |
| 2404949/2019 | 21 January 2020 | Mr S J Wilkinson | Automatic Fire Suppression Limited | England & Wales | £10,051 |
| 2502054/2019 | 21 January 2020 | Mr C Carter | Port Of Tyne | England & Wales | — |
| 2600976/2018 | 21 January 2020 | In Person For the | — | England & Wales | — |
| 1600289/2019 | 21 January 2020 | — | Capital Cleaning 2012 Ltd | England & Wales | — |
| 2303672/2019 | 21 January 2020 | Ms N Mitchell | Nicholas Smith | England & Wales | — |
| 2417908/2018 | 21 January 2020 | Mr MH Mateparae and others (see schedules) | Herbert T. Forrest Limited | England & Wales | — |
| 2502056/2019 | 21 January 2020 | Mr K Hardingham | Port Of Tyne | England & Wales | — |
| 4107456/2019 | 21 January 2020 | EMPLOYMENT TRIBUNALS (SCOTLAND) Case No: 4107456/2019 Ms V Denholm | Pets at Home Limited | Scotland | — |
| 1601352/2018 | 21 January 2020 | (1) Mr GG (2) Ms FF | Ms UD | England & Wales | — |
| 2404963/2019 | 21 January 2020 | Mr M Reade | Automatic Fire Suppression Limited | England & Wales | £11,934 |
| 2603170/2019 | 21 January 2020 | Mr L White | OCS Group UK Ltd | England & Wales | — |
| 4107854/2019 | 21 January 2020 | EMPLOYMENT TRIBUNALS (SCOTLAND) Case No: 4107854/2019 Mr B Webb | Foston's Fine Meats | Scotland | — |
| 2204184/2019 | 21 January 2020 | Miss P Saunders | Ryalto Ltd | England & Wales | £3,156 |
| 1600641/2019 | 20 January 2020 | Mr D Mazurkiewicz | Rebo UK Ltd | England & Wales | — |
| 1403439/2019 | 20 January 2020 | Mrs A Milner | R Community CIC | England & Wales | — |