Breach of contract compensation & tribunal success rate — UK data (page 558) | Tribunal Watch
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Breach of contract employment tribunal cases — UK data 2017–present
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.
Total cases
27,877
Median award
£4,044
Claims upheld
69%
Largest single award
£3,449,329
Distinct employers
23,406
England & Wales
24,879
Scotland
2,998
Compensation in breach of contract cases
10,449 cases with a recorded award
Median
£4,044
Mean
£9,283
25th percentile
£1,608
75th percentile
£10,125
90th percentile
£20,475
Largest
£3,449,329
Figures are the total award recorded across cases that include a breach of contract claim and a published remedy — 10,449 of 27,877 breach of contract cases. Many tribunal judgments decide liability only, with compensation set at a later hearing, so they are not counted here. A judgment combining several claim types contributes its whole award. Nothing here is legal advice or a prediction of any individual outcome.
Outcomes of breach of contract claims
15,345 adjudicated claims
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Withdrawn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%
Counting only claims a tribunal decided on the merits (upheld or dismissed), 69% of breach of contract claims were upheld — 8,375 of 12,054. Settled and withdrawn claims are excluded from that rate. Outcomes are recorded per claim, so a judgment can uphold one claim and dismiss another.
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.