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| Withdrawn | 1,632 | 11% |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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1403085/2019 | 1 November 2019 | Miss LD Griffith | Loungers Ltd | England & Wales | — |
| 1401619/2019 | 1 November 2019 | Mrs JM Vanstone | PM Kitto T/A Treverier Farm | England & Wales | — |
| 3321368/2019 | 1 November 2019 | Mr R Mitchell-Cole | BTN Turbo | England & Wales | — |
| 1403422/2019 | 1 November 2019 | Mr M Thurling | Dovu Limited C/O Irfon Watkins | England & Wales | — |
| 1403103/2019 | 1 November 2019 | Mr A Narbett | Keter UK Limited | England & Wales | — |
| 3300566/2019 | 1 November 2019 | In person. For the | Mr H Thiara, Solicitor. | England & Wales | — |
| 3300082/2019 | 1 November 2019 | No attendance or | — | England & Wales | — |
| 1403574/2019 | 1 November 2019 | — | Raj Shabari v Horncastle Executive Travel | England & Wales |
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 |
| — |
| 2200481/2019 | 1 November 2019 | Mr K Harrison (TU Representative) | — | England & Wales | — |
| 3305972/2018 | 1 November 2019 | Mrs Gemma Stoate | British Airways plc | England & Wales | £14,914 |
| 2602220/2019 | 1 November 2019 | Mr M Sobiesiak | Kaby Engineers Ltd | England & Wales | — |
| 1601345/2019 | 1 November 2019 | Mr L Bailey | Royal Oak Hotel (Betws-Y-Coed) Limited | England & Wales | — |
| 1402722/2019 | 1 November 2019 | Ms S Jefferson | First Call Care Solutions Limited | England & Wales | — |
| 1801531/2017 | 1 November 2019 | — | Mbuisa v Cygnet Healthcare Ltd | England & Wales | £594 |
| 1401896/2019 | 1 November 2019 | Mr G Hughes-Williams | Croner Group Limited | England & Wales | — |
| 1403717/2018 | 1 November 2019 | Ms S Blyth | Holland & Barrett Retail Limited | England & Wales | — |
| 1303733/2018 | 1 November 2019 | Mr K Drinkwater | The Secretary of State for BEIS | England & Wales | £1,649 |
| 2502129/2019 | 1 November 2019 | Mr I McLelland | K. B. Spigot Limited | England & Wales | — |
| 1304707/2018 | 1 November 2019 | Miss H Nightingale | Peer And Co Ltd & Others | England & Wales | — |
| 3321267/2019 | 1 November 2019 | Mr P Shelcot | First Port Retirement Property Services Ltd | England & Wales | — |
| 3313753/2019 | 1 November 2019 | No attendance or | — | England & Wales | — |
| 3312321/2019 | 1 November 2019 | Mrs A Venables | Roseland Lodge Limited | England & Wales | — |
| 2410088/2019 | 1 November 2019 | Mr C Fox | Key Integrated Services (North West) Ltd | England & Wales | — |
| 2402389/2019 | 1 November 2019 | Miss J Hussain Mrs I Usman | Wren Kitchens Limited | England & Wales | — |
| 1401665/2019 | 1 November 2019 | Miss P Giannikara | Marks and Spencer plc | England & Wales | — |
| 3302874/2018 | 1 November 2019 | In person For the | — | England & Wales | — |
| 1400640/2019 | 1 November 2019 | Mr B Zieniuk | Somerset Care Limited | England & Wales | — |
| 2417016/2018 | 1 November 2019 | Mr J McCormick | NW Law Ltd | England & Wales | — |
| 2404549/2019 | 1 November 2019 | Mr S Galloway | North West Boroughs Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust | England & Wales | — |
| 2200099/2019 | 1 November 2019 | Ms H Platt, of Counsel For | — | England & Wales | — |
| 1802441/2019 | 1 November 2019 | Miss E Ridsdale | Harris Welding Limited | England & Wales | — |
| 3314880/2019 | 1 November 2019 | Mr J Knight | Bespoke Insurance | England & Wales | £2,601 |
| 1800588/2019 | 1 November 2019 | Mrs L A Smith in person | Mr J W Nicholson in person | England & Wales | £2,269 |
| 2700427/2015 | 1 November 2019 | Miss Agnes Dabi | Aker Solutions Limited | England & Wales | — |
| 1403851/2019 | 1 November 2019 | Mr E Morris | Richardson Hotel Group | England & Wales | — |
| 1601342/2019 | 1 November 2019 | Mr A Taylor | Andrew Emmett and Others | England & Wales | £5,133 |
| 1401197/2019 | 1 November 2019 | Mrs K Chahal | Glider Yachts Limited | England & Wales | — |
| 2410278/2019 | 1 November 2019 | Mr M Bienkowski | T J Morris Ltd | England & Wales | — |
| 1800759/2019 | 1 November 2019 | Mr P Lassey, of Counsel | Miss L Howes, Solicitor | England & Wales | £2,415 |
| 1800186/2019 | 1 November 2019 | Mr R Pucknell | Hermes Parcelnet Limited | England & Wales | — |
| 1402826/2018 | 1 November 2019 | Wipro Ltd | Mr M Patterson Mr MC Sandford | England & Wales | — |
| 3319593/2019 | 31 October 2019 | Miss L Saxton | Hethersett Old Hall School Limited (in liquidation) Interested party: McTear Williams & Wood Limited (liquidator) | England & Wales | — |
| 4106032/2018 | 31 October 2019 | EMPLOYMENT TRIBUNALS (SCOTLAND) Case No: 4106032/2018 Miss L Henderson | Represented by: Ms E Leitch Vetrica Limited | Scotland | — |
| 2405824/2019 | 31 October 2019 | Mr M Mather | Richard Deacon t/a Fastprint | England & Wales | £6,560 |
| 3335078/2018 | 31 October 2019 | Mr E Carey, TU representative | — | England & Wales | — |
| 3304480/2018 | 31 October 2019 | In person For the | Mr A Sayani, Partner of the Respondent firm Interpreter: Mrs Joanna Jones, Polish speaker | England & Wales | £1,494 |
| 2602073/2019 | 31 October 2019 | Miss J Fox | Julian Boween Limited | England & Wales | — |
| 2303190/2018 | 31 October 2019 | Mr T Harrison | The Personal Representatives of the estate of Mr Shaun Van Vuuren (deceased co-owner trading as St Francis Veterinary Surgery) | England & Wales | — |
| 2411075/2019 | 31 October 2019 | Miss D Wilcox | Happy Life Quotes | England & Wales | — |
| 2404635/2019 | 31 October 2019 | Mr P Virgin | Middlewood Landscape Services Ltd | England & Wales | £26,640 |