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| Withdrawn | 1,636 | 11% |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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3303838/2019 | 14 January 2020 | Mr J Pegrum | Mr James Holt | England & Wales | £2,168 |
| 3201389/2019 | 14 January 2020 | Ms C Driver | Refined Media Ltd | England & Wales | — |
| 3202574/2019 | 14 January 2020 | Mr A Higgins | St George City Ltd | England & Wales | — |
| 2410301/2019 | 14 January 2020 | — | St Helens and Knowsley Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust | England & Wales | — |
| 1402570/2019 | 14 January 2020 | Ms P McGill | Avon and Wiltshire Mental Health Partnership NHS Trust | England & Wales | — |
| 3346892/2016 | 14 January 2020 | Mr R Uddin | Embassy of the State of Kuwait | England & Wales | — |
| 3310936/2019 | 14 January 2020 | In person For the | Mr N Mpamugo, solicitor | England & Wales | £2,391 |
| 3329025/2017 | 14 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 | Network Rail Infrastructure Limited | 24 |
| In person For the |
| Mr N Johnson, Solicitor |
| England & Wales |
| £2,047 |
| 2602960/2018 | 14 January 2020 | Mr L Harris | Paragon Interiors Group plc (In Administration) | England & Wales | — |
| 2200621/2018 | 14 January 2020 | Mr J. Neckles, trade union representative For the | — | England & Wales | £0 |
| 3202184/2019 | 14 January 2020 | Mrs J White | Elan Fire and Security Group Limited | England & Wales | £2,510 |
| 1807333/2019 | 14 January 2020 | Miss C Townsley | Eden Mobility Limited | England & Wales | — |
| 2602294/2019 | 14 January 2020 | Ms S Leroux | Bookatrack.com Limited | England & Wales | — |
| 2602239/2019 | 14 January 2020 | Mr G Blythe | Clarity Healthcare Recruitment Ltd | England & Wales | — |
| 3314444/2019 | 13 January 2020 | Mrs A Neary | Peterborough City Council Four C’s Multi-Academy Trust | England & Wales | — |
| 2202050/2019 | 13 January 2020 | Ms M Swapna | Vision Security Group Limited | England & Wales | — |
| 3306665/2019 | 13 January 2020 | — | Mrs Douaa El-Terk | England & Wales | — |
| 1400317/2019 | 13 January 2020 | In person For the | — | England & Wales | £1,650 |
| 1301176/2019 | 13 January 2020 | In Person For the | DA Civils Ltd | England & Wales | £17,640 |
| 3320107/2019 | 13 January 2020 | In person. For the | Mr Garner, Representative. Interpreter: Malgorzata Wieloch – Language: Polish. | England & Wales | — |
| 1405474/2019 | 13 January 2020 | Mr S Brooker | Southern Water | England & Wales | — |
| 1807326/2019 | 13 January 2020 | Miss S Wilson-Ryder | Dorothy House/The Firs Partnership | England & Wales | — |
| 4110607/2019 | 13 January 2020 | Mr W Hobbs | Elite Energy Limited | Scotland | £3,738 |
| 2414065/2019 | 13 January 2020 | Refinery Marketing Communications Limited | Mr David James Pye | England & Wales | — |
| 4107126/2019 | 13 January 2020 | Mrs L Stewart | Allied Health-Services Limited` | Scotland | — |
| 1302368/2019 | 13 January 2020 | Mr W Brown, solicitor | — | England & Wales | — |
| 2406265/2019 | 13 January 2020 | Mr S Darer | 1 Flanagan’s Brasserie Ltd 2 Jayne Flanagan | England & Wales | — |
| 1805384/2019 | 13 January 2020 | Ms B Sim Second Claimant Ms K Attenborough | Dr S Barnsley PRIVATE PRELIMINARY HEARING | England & Wales | — |
| 1803316/2019 | 13 January 2020 | Mr M Hairsine | Kingstown Furniture Limited [In Administration] | England & Wales | — |
| 1303618/2019 | 13 January 2020 | Did Not Attend and was Not Represented For the | Willow Homes Care Ltd | England & Wales | — |
| 1406132/2019 | 13 January 2020 | Mr R Smith | WPM Sports & Social Club | England & Wales | — |
| 1804497/2019 | 13 January 2020 | Ms C Barnes | R1: Ecoclean Community Care Limited R2: Janet Galvin | England & Wales | — |
| 1301929/2019 | 13 January 2020 | Mr K Daisley | Bewdley Town Council | England & Wales | — |
| 2301527/2019 | 13 January 2020 | Miss Jamreleigh Phillips | Arden Maidstone Limited TELEPHONE CASE MANAGEMENT DISCUSSION | England & Wales | — |
| 1806593/2019 | 13 January 2020 | In person | Excell Home Care Limited | England & Wales | £680 |
| 2202622/2019 | 13 January 2020 | Miss S Raftery | Horizon Medical Limited | England & Wales | — |
| 2206045/2018 | 13 January 2020 | in person For the | — | England & Wales | £79 |
| 2410841/2019 | 13 January 2020 | Mr A Armstrong | The Old Courts (trading As Arts At The Mill Cic) | England & Wales | — |
| 1403615/2019 | 13 January 2020 | Mr A Banner | Sweetnam & Bradley Limited | England & Wales | — |
| 2413634/2019 | 13 January 2020 | Mr K Popadameriou | DHL Services Limited | England & Wales | — |
| 2202712/2019 | 13 January 2020 | In person For the | No appearance or | England & Wales | £3,267 |
| 3334980/2018 | 13 January 2020 | Mrs D El-Terk | Glass & Fusion Limited & Others | England & Wales | — |
| 4111865/2019 | 13 January 2020 | EMPLOYMENT TRIBUNALS (SCOTLAND) Case No: 4111865/2019 Mr J Greer | RelyOn Nutec UK Ltd | Scotland | — |
| 3300521/2019 | 12 January 2020 | Miss A Coombes | Marks and Spencer plc | England & Wales | — |
| 3335515/2018 | 12 January 2020 | Mrs E Musto | GCH (Hertfordshire) Limited (t/a Queensway House) | England & Wales | — |
| 3334700/2018 | 12 January 2020 | Mrs M Lewis | National Pharmacy Association Limited | England & Wales | — |
| 3300502/2019 | 12 January 2020 | Mrs T Bennett | Chesterford Homecare Limited | England & Wales | — |
| 3314478/2019 | 12 January 2020 | Marks And Spencer Group Plc | Miss A Coombes | England & Wales | — |
| 3333529/2018 | 12 January 2020 | Mr P Cashman | Ministry of Defence | England & Wales | — |
| 1601950/2019 | 12 January 2020 | Mr Matthew Shenton | Park House 20 Ltd | England & Wales | £997 |