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About this site

What Tribunal Watch is, and isn't

Tribunal Watch is a structured, cross-cut index of employment tribunal decisions in England, Wales and Scotland — built from the primary record published on gov.uk.

Every judgment indexed here is sourced from the public listing at gov.uk/employment-tribunal-decisions. Source PDFs are Crown Copyright, reproduced under the Open Government Licence v3.0. The site is independent of HM Courts & Tribunals Service and the Ministry of Justice. Nothing on it is legal advice.

Methodology

New judgments are pulled from gov.uk on a daily cadence. A deterministic first-pass extractor reads each PDF to pin down the structured essentials: case reference, decision date, judge, venue, claimant, respondents, claim types, and any monetary award. A second-pass extraction lifts per-claim outcomes, key findings, and the legal tests the tribunal applied — that pass is in progress and is not yet present on every case page.

Respondent names are normalised and, where confident, matched to Companies House records so that "Tesco Stores Ltd", "TESCO STORES LIMITED" and "Tesco Stores" all roll up to a single employer entry with a stable URL.

What this site is not

It is not a court record system, a legal-research database, or a source of authoritative case citations — for any of those, the gov.uk PDF linked from each case page is the authoritative document and should be cited directly. It is not a tool for individual claimants to find a representative or estimate a likely award. It is not a list of "bad employers" — appearing as a respondent is a neutral fact, and outcomes vary widely.

Contact the editors

For correction requests, takedown / data-subject requests, or press enquiries, see the corrections and takedown pages. We aim to acknowledge requests within five working days.