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| Withdrawn | 1,632 | 11% |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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2301259/2018 | 2 January 2020 | Mr K Pink | Royal Borough of Greenwich | England & Wales | — |
| 2302572/2018 | 2 January 2020 | Mr D Galloway | Royal Borough of Greenwich | England & Wales | — |
| 1806411/2019 | 2 January 2020 | Mr C Marston | Sbfm | England & Wales | — |
| 2304078/2019 | 2 January 2020 | Mrs S Mackmin-Wood | Guys and St Thomas NHS Foundation Trust | England & Wales | — |
| 2406158/2019 | 2 January 2020 | Mr M Etchells | Factory Stone Limited | England & Wales | — |
| 2410122/2019 | 2 January 2020 | Mrs J Kramer | National Probation Service & Others | England & Wales | — |
| 2414136/2019 | 2 January 2020 | Mr R Cook | Tyrers Coaches | England & Wales | — |
| 3306673/2019 | 2 January 2020 | — | Signs and Screens Ltd and Stackd Media Ltd |
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 |
| England & Wales |
| £6,282 |
| 1405905/2019 | 31 December 2019 | Miss R Thorbes | Edward Rafferty | England & Wales | — |
| 2600765/2019 | 31 December 2019 | In person (Assisted by his mother - Mrs A Newstead). For the | Mr C Green, Solicitor Agent. | England & Wales | £837 |
| 1601193/2018 | 31 December 2019 | Mr R Jones | Valero Operations Support Limited Valero Energy Limited | England & Wales | — |
| 2410287/2019 | 31 December 2019 | Mr Steven Stirrup | Ron Lysons | England & Wales | £2,000 |
| 1400681/2019 | 31 December 2019 | Ms JD Bliss | Mount Pleasant School | England & Wales | — |
| 3321339/2019 | 31 December 2019 | Mr D Bean | — | England & Wales | — |
| 1404097/2019 | 31 December 2019 | Miss C Selby | K N Care Limited | England & Wales | — |
| 1402966/2019 | 31 December 2019 | Mrs J Orr | Her Majesty’s Prison and Probation Service | England & Wales | — |
| 1403029/2019 | 31 December 2019 | Mrs M Janeway | Avec Trade Limited (t/a Avec UK) | England & Wales | — |
| 1600294/2019 | 31 December 2019 | J Turley | S D Wright trading as EEZIVAPE | England & Wales | £54,040 |
| 1400678/2019 | 31 December 2019 | Mrs R Wilkinson | Atlanticway Bude Farmshop Ltd | England & Wales | — |
| 1403900/2019 | 31 December 2019 | Mr D Passmore | Bodycombe Logistics Ltd | England & Wales | — |
| 2302158/2019 | 31 December 2019 | Mr M Bird | DHL Global Forwarding (UK) Ltd | England & Wales | — |
| 1403689/2019 | 31 December 2019 | Mr L Hughes | BN Defence Limited | England & Wales | — |
| 1803554/2019 | 31 December 2019 | Mr R Beck | Owens-Corning Veil U.K. Ltd | England & Wales | — |
| 1404748/2019 | 31 December 2019 | Miss J Ormsby | Blue Spa And Leisure Trading As Natural Spa Factory | England & Wales | — |
| 1400675/2019 | 31 December 2019 | Mr N Stothard | Rodney Sait t/a DWC Trade Windows | England & Wales | — |
| 1400796/2019 | 31 December 2019 | Ms P Griffiths | 1) Chase Associates Limited (t/a Chase Employment Agency) 2) Michael Veale | England & Wales | — |
| 1404835/2019 | 30 December 2019 | Mr M Adamczyk | 1) Script Worldwide Limited 2) Mrs Sarah Ann Nunn 3) Mr Joshua Nunn | England & Wales | — |
| 1600720/2019 | 30 December 2019 | Ms D P Davies | Grangetown Conservative Club | England & Wales | £8,222 |
| 2602590/2019 | 30 December 2019 | Mrs A Wadhams | Barry Dovey trading as Phoenix Accounting | England & Wales | £5,991 |
| 1404611/2019 | 30 December 2019 | Mr R Raybold | Les Bouviers Restaurants Limited (In Administrative Receivership) | England & Wales | — |
| 2202237/2019 | 30 December 2019 | Mr A Hassan | Physio Medicine Ltd | England & Wales | — |
| 3325523/2017 | 30 December 2019 | Mr A McPhail (Counsel) For the | — | England & Wales | — |
| 1601706/2019 | 30 December 2019 | Ms K Winiarska | Ultra Tiles Limited | England & Wales | £230 |
| 1402911/2019 | 30 December 2019 | Mr B Singh | Arnold Clark Automobiles Limited | England & Wales | — |
| 1601122/2019 | 30 December 2019 | Ms A K Torobinska | Kingdom Services Group Limited | England & Wales | — |
| 4102721/2019 | 30 December 2019 | Ms E Storey | Whisky Merchant Trading Ltd | Scotland | — |
| 2602549/2019 | 30 December 2019 | Mr M Smalley | La Steeplejacks | England & Wales | £9,696 |
| 1403888/2019 | 30 December 2019 | Ms C Butterfield | Sussex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust | England & Wales | — |
| 4111242/2019 | 30 December 2019 | Mr C Williamson | John Steele C/O Stirling Council | Scotland | — |
| 3319945/2019 | 30 December 2019 | Miss R Elward | Asos.com Ltd | England & Wales | — |
| 1803990/2019 | 30 December 2019 | Ms S Bennett | Total Polyfilm Limited (in administration) | England & Wales | — |
| 1403310/2019 | 30 December 2019 | Mr A Worgan | Metric Group Limited | England & Wales | — |
| 3202243/2019 | 30 December 2019 | Mrs J Wilkes | London Borough Of Barking And Dagneham | England & Wales | — |
| 2602589/2019 | 30 December 2019 | Miss S Lightowler | Barry Dovey trading as Phoenix Accounting | England & Wales | £10,289 |
| 1405066/2019 | 30 December 2019 | Mr C Hingston | Tregarland Ltd c/o Caroline Hay | England & Wales | — |
| 2602684/2019 | 30 December 2019 | Miss S Croly | Kelly Ann Smith | England & Wales | — |
| 3300394/2019 | 30 December 2019 | Mr T Dworakowski | Faccenda Foods Limited | England & Wales | — |
| 1400409/2019 | 30 December 2019 | Mr JT Whyte | Southampton City Council | England & Wales | — |
| 1300052/2019 | 30 December 2019 | Mr P Kemp | Jardine | England & Wales | — |
| 4107795/2019 | 27 December 2019 | EMPLOYMENT TRIBUNALS (SCOTLAND) Case No: 4107795/2019 Mr J McAreavey | Lanark Road Property Limited | Scotland | — |