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| Withdrawn | 1,632 | 11% |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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4105344/2017 | 12 January 2018 | M Robison Mr M McKirdy | — | Scotland | £1,521 |
| 1400799/2017 | 11 January 2018 | Mr T Robins | CAB Special Batteries Limited | England & Wales | £3,365 |
| 2301379/2018 | 9 January 2018 | In person, assisted by Mr C For the | — | England & Wales | — |
| 4102358/2017 | 8 January 2018 | Mr Twaha Abdulrahim S a i d | Proficient Security Ltd F i r s t | Scotland | £30,892 |
| 2301094/2019 | 8 January 2018 | Cherif Layadi | Shoe Embassy London Limited (In voluntary liquidation) | England & Wales | £11,172 |
| 2303053/2017 | 3 January 2018 | Ms L D’Arcy | South Downs Introductions | England & Wales | — |
| 4104904/2017 | 21 December 2017 | Mr D Campbell | Tom Loftus Groundworks Ltd (deceased) | Scotland | £10,208 |
| 2301638/2016 | 21 December 2017 | Mr I S Pennels | The Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis |
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 |
| — |
| 3303561/2019 | 20 December 2017 | Mr Clayton De Beauville | Hertsmere Borough Council | England & Wales | £2,000 |
| 1801621/2017 | 19 December 2017 | Mrs K Baker | Warburton Limited | England & Wales | — |
| 2301143/2017 | 15 December 2017 | — | Savic v University of Sussex | England & Wales | — |
| 3201050/2018 | 15 December 2017 | Ms Svetlana Sinelnikova | ActivTrades plc | England & Wales | — |
| 2302613/2017 | 15 December 2017 | Ms B Bengtson | Southern Dental Limited | England & Wales | — |
| 2302177/2017 | 15 December 2017 | Miss S Fuller | DL Insurance Services Limited | England & Wales | — |
| 2302798/2017 | 15 December 2017 | Mr J Aleksandravicius | Class1personnel Ltd | England & Wales | — |
| 2301732/2017 | 15 December 2017 | Ms J Deschamps | Cabot Financial (Europe) Limited | England & Wales | — |
| 2302225/2017 | 15 December 2017 | Miss H Finney | Chase PR & Social Media Limited | England & Wales | — |
| 2301949/2017 | 14 December 2017 | Mr M Spall | The Leaseholder Association | England & Wales | — |
| 2301174/2017 | 14 December 2017 | Mr J Gilbert | Eaton House Group of Schools | England & Wales | — |
| 2301915/2017 | 14 December 2017 | Mr P Dunham | Debenhams Retail Limited (in Administration) | England & Wales | — |
| 4100408/2017 | 14 December 2017 | )5 M | — | Scotland | — |
| 4104837/2017 | 14 December 2017 | Mr Jamie Connell | Newlands Roofing Company | Scotland | £10,123 |
| 4102090/2017 | 13 December 2017 | L Doherty Mrs E Richards | Bourtreehill Limited | Scotland | £4,752 |
| 4104794/2017 | 13 December 2017 | L Doherty Mr K Buchanan | MacKenzie Bus Limited | Scotland | £251 |
| 4101700/2017 | 13 December 2017 | Mr E W Gillies | ’s Father Invincible Security Ltd | Scotland | £3,353 |
| 4104584/2017 | 13 December 2017 | — | Flynns James Ltd T/a Flec Payroll and Others: S/4104584/2017 | Scotland | — |
| 3305332/2018 | 12 December 2017 | Mr S Rutter & others Ms R Bartlett & others Ms S Peacock & others | Multiyork Furniture Limited (‘In Administration’) | England & Wales | — |
| 2301233/2017 | 12 December 2017 | Ms RZ Blewitt | Joanna Verrico And Associates | England & Wales | — |
| 2302019/2017 | 12 December 2017 | Miss K Campbell-Odaro | MCB’s Events Services T/a Fine Event Co | England & Wales | — |
| 2302020/2017 | 12 December 2017 | Mr A Hough | Iron Mountain (UK) Limited | England & Wales | — |
| 2301119/2017 | 12 December 2017 | Mr R Anderson | Sage UK Limited | England & Wales | — |
| 2300459/2017 | 12 December 2017 | Mr S Hirst | Kingston Hospital NHS Foundation Trust | England & Wales | — |
| 2302316/2016 | 12 December 2017 | Miss E O’Mahony | One Answer Insurance Ltd | England & Wales | — |
| 2300705/2017 | 12 December 2017 | Mr A Virdi | News UK & Ireland Limited | England & Wales | — |
| 2302077/2017 | 12 December 2017 | Mrs J Bowers-Waite | Sussex Community NHS Foundation Trust | England & Wales | — |
| 2300716/2017 | 12 December 2017 | Mrs J Tagg | The Kent Tea and Trading Company (a partnership) t/a The Kent & Sussex Tea & Coffee Company | England & Wales | — |
| 2302335/2017 | 11 December 2017 | Miss M Dearling | Apogee Corporation Limited | England & Wales | — |
| 2300016/2017 | 11 December 2017 | Mrs J Palmer | Saga plc | England & Wales | — |
| 2301802/2017 | 11 December 2017 | Miss K Grobecka | Brighton and Sussex University Hospitals NHS Trust | England & Wales | — |
| 2301137/2017 | 11 December 2017 | Mr A Biswas | West Of England Insurance Services (Luxembourg) S.A. | England & Wales | — |
| 2301932/2017 | 11 December 2017 | Mr A Tchoudinov | Sports and Leisure Management Ltd | England & Wales | — |
| 2301874/2017 | 11 December 2017 | Mr D Smart | Jonathan Clark | England & Wales | — |
| 2301750/2017 | 11 December 2017 | Miss A Allwright | Asda | England & Wales | — |
| 3325764/2017 | 8 December 2017 | Mr N Purcel | Profix Construct Ltd | England & Wales | £5,797 |
| 2301530/2017 | 7 December 2017 | Mr D Burton | Drallim Industries Limited | England & Wales | — |
| 4102063/2017 | 5 December 2017 | EMPLOYMENT TRIBUNALS (SCOTLAND) Case No: 4102063/2017 Ms N Codona | Rockhouse Limited | Scotland | — |
| 4104898/2017 | 5 December 2017 | EMPLOYMENT TRIBUNALS (SCOTLAND) Case No: S/4104898/2017 Mr M Gillespie | St Auto Garage Doors Ltd | Scotland | £3,947 |
| 4104550/2017 | 4 December 2017 | — | C Mason Family Butchers | Scotland | £3,308 |
| 1600860/2015 | 2 December 2017 | Mrs T J Betts, Mr N Proctor and Miss K O’Brien | The Secretary of State for Justice | England & Wales | — |
| 2302251/2017 | 1 December 2017 | Miss E Dura | Unilever UK Limited | England & Wales | — |