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Tribunal Watch has indexed 14,980 UK employment tribunal cases involving disability discrimination claims, published on gov.uk since 2017. Where compensation was recorded, the median award was £7,571 (the largest £269,114) across 933 cases. Tribunals upheld 23% of the 8,456 decided disability discrimination claims. These cases name 11,011 distinct employers as respondents.
| Outcome | Claims | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Dismissed | 6,546 | 51% |
| Upheld | 1,910 | 15% |
| Other | 1,527 | 12% |
| Withdrawn | 1,435 | 11% |
| Struck out | 1,301 | 10% |
| Settled | 29 | 0% |
| Year | Cases | Trend |
|---|---|---|
| 2017 | 221 | |
| 2018 | 336 | |
| 2019 | 2,407 | |
| 2020 | 3,169 | |
| 2021 | 1,578 | |
| 2022 | 1,696 | |
| 2023 | 1,671 | |
| 2024 | 1,632 | |
| 2025 | 1,474 | |
| 2026 | 796 |
| Case ref. | Decided | Claimant | Primary respondent | Total award |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1801339/2017 | 9 May 2018 | Miss S J Austin | Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust | £269,114 |
| 1600183/2021 | 27 November 2020 | Ms Peak Ong | Aberystwyth University | £264,442 |
| 3315465/2022 | 13 March 2025 | In person (supported by Ms R Cottingham) For the | Mach Recruitment Limited | £187,585 |
| 1306989/2020 | 24 October 2023 | Mr Daniel Williams | Jaguar Land Rover Limited | £147,573 |
| 3307425/2018 | 7 December 2020 | Mr Riffat Amin | Arrayent UK Limited | £145,513 |
| 2305316/2024 | 4 July 2025 | Mrs C Dovey | Spider Ltd (in liquidation) | £140,200 |
| 3322339/2021 | 7 September 2023 | in person For the | — | £134,412 |
| 3316147/2019 | 21 April 2022 | Mr M Saunders | Exclusive Fireplaces and Stoves Ltd | £127,418 |
| Case ref. | Decided | Claimant | Primary respondent | Jurisdiction | Total award |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1601261/2020 | 28 July 2020 | Mr E Johns | Dvsa | England & Wales | — |
| 2502672/2019 | 28 July 2020 | Mr D Wilson | Tesco Stores Limited Tesco plc | England & Wales | — |
| 2504255/2019 | 28 July 2020 | Mr A Collinson | Durham University | England & Wales | — |
| 2504219/2019 | 28 July 2020 | Ms E Tyreman | Park Blue Homes Limited | England & Wales | — |
| 2204179/2019 | 28 July 2020 | Ms D Njoroge Represented by: did not attend | — | England & Wales | — |
| 2603380/2019 | 28 July 2020 | Ms T Keetley | Sir Robert Pattinson Academy | England & Wales | — |
| 4100687/2020 | 27 July 2020 | EMPLOYMENT TRIBUNALS (SCOTLAND) Case No: 4100687/2020 Mr I O'Connor | — | Scotland | — |
| 1802674/2020 | 27 July 2020 | Mrs Nee, chartered legal executive | Miss Smith, solicitor | England & Wales | — |
Cases on this page are identified by first-pass extraction against the locked §4.4 claim-type taxonomy — a judgment enters the disability discrimination caseload if disability discriminationis 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.
| British Telecommunications plc |
| 34 |
| 16 | The Commissioners for Her Majesty’s Revenue and Customs | 34 |
| 17 | Network Rail Infrastructure Limited | 33 |
| 18 | Wm Morrison Supermarkets Limited | 31 |
| 19 | Amazon UK Services Limited | 30 |
| 20 | DHL Services Limited | 28 |
| 1810963/2018 | 27 July 2020 | Ms M Milnes | City of Bradford Metropolitan District Council | England & Wales | — |
| 4100323/2020 | 25 July 2020 | Miss D Graham | Represented by: Mr A Cacace - Solicitor Starfish Limited t/a Starfish Construction | Scotland | — |
| 2601207/2019 | 24 July 2020 | Miss M Wright | Tudor Grange Samworth Academy | England & Wales | — |
| 1405091/2019 | 24 July 2020 | Miss E Sparrow | Marks and Spencer plc | England & Wales | — |
| 2600764/2020 | 24 July 2020 | Mr J Blackwell | Ferraris Piston Service Limited | England & Wales | — |
| 2601012/2020 | 24 July 2020 | Mr L Scally | RPS Consulting Services Ltd | England & Wales | — |
| 1401379/2019 | 24 July 2020 | Mrs D Pond | South Dartmoor Academy | England & Wales | — |
| 2601402/2020 | 24 July 2020 | Mr J Evans | Seafish Processing Limited | England & Wales | — |
| 2600006/2020 | 24 July 2020 | Ms E Lister | Well Pharmacy | England & Wales | — |
| 2603516/2019 | 24 July 2020 | Miss J Neville | Turning Point | England & Wales | — |
| 2600622/2020 | 24 July 2020 | Mr M Barnes | KBeverage Ltd, Michelle Hughes, Erika Apinyte, Nigel Mettam-Price & Samantha Tempest | England & Wales | — |
| 1405040/2019 | 24 July 2020 | Mr G Cook | Sportarm Ltd | England & Wales | — |
| 2602493/2019 | 24 July 2020 | Mrs A Thurston | CDS Global Limited | England & Wales | — |
| 3322290/2019 | 24 July 2020 | Helen Aranyi | DrsDirect Ltd | England & Wales | — |
| 2601929/2020 | 24 July 2020 | Mr C Fogg | Santander UK plc | England & Wales | — |
| 1801155/2020 | 24 July 2020 | Mrs R Malik | Tesco Stores Ltd | England & Wales | — |
| 2601782/2020 | 24 July 2020 | Mr S Brown | Games Workshop plc | England & Wales | — |
| 2601217/2019 | 24 July 2020 | Mr AM Davis | Derbyshire Floorcraft Limited & Derbyshire Contracts Ltd | England & Wales | — |
| 1406385/2019 | 24 July 2020 | Mrs H Hill | Deltaform Ltd t/a Waddington Europe | England & Wales | — |
| 2600580/2020 | 24 July 2020 | Mr J Knight | Nottingham City Council | England & Wales | — |
| 2601303/2020 | 24 July 2020 | Ms E Pears | North East Lincolnshire Ccg | England & Wales | — |
| 1405433/2019 | 24 July 2020 | Mr G Harding | Lifeways Community Care Limited | England & Wales | — |
| 2601511/2020 | 24 July 2020 | Mr S Kalirai | 2b Secure Services Limited | England & Wales | — |
| 2303149/2019 | 23 July 2020 | Mr R Smurthwaite | Wilson James Ltd | England & Wales | — |
| 2205140/2018 | 23 July 2020 | — | Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine and others | England & Wales | — |
| 1807623/2019 | 23 July 2020 | Mrs J Reeve | Hightrees Garden Centre and Leisure Ltd | England & Wales | — |
| 3202717/2019 | 23 July 2020 | Mrs Y Goodhew | Elior UK plc | England & Wales | — |
| 3203020/2019 | 23 July 2020 | Ms Emma Richards | Restore Community Church | England & Wales | — |
| 2206127/2018 | 23 July 2020 | — | UK CAT and others | England & Wales | — |
| 2203163/2019 | 23 July 2020 | Ms De Morgado | Carolia Tower Ltd T/a Doubletree by Hilton Hotel – Tower of London | England & Wales | — |
| 2207352/2017 | 23 July 2020 | Mr B Vadgama | BT Group plc | England & Wales | — |
| 2500185/2020 | 23 July 2020 | Mrs B Lees | The Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust | England & Wales | — |
| 1402712/2019 | 23 July 2020 | Mrs Dawn Roberts | Discovery Multi Academy Trust | England & Wales | — |
| 2302985/2019 | 22 July 2020 | Claire Cruse, Solicitor For the | — | England & Wales | — |
| 2602464/2019 | 22 July 2020 | Miss C Saunt | Derby City Council | England & Wales | — |
| 2305663/2019 | 22 July 2020 | Mrs S Verlander | Clifton Court Development | England & Wales | — |
| 2600317/2020 | 22 July 2020 | Mr H Fisher | Boots Management Services Ltd | England & Wales | — |
| 2602071/2019 | 22 July 2020 | Ms F Beales | Nottingham Trent University | England & Wales | — |
| 2601989/2020 | 22 July 2020 | Ms K Garcha | Coping With Cancer In Leicestershire & Rutland | England & Wales | — |
| 2200176/2020 | 22 July 2020 | Mr. J. Osman Abdelghafour | — | England & Wales | — |
| 1300005/2019 | 22 July 2020 | In Person For the | — | England & Wales | — |
| 4101066/2020 | 22 July 2020 | 69(scot) claim dismissed on withdrawal rule EMPLOYMENT TRIBUNALS (SCOTLAND) Case No: 4101066/2020 (A) Ms C Cooper | Represented by: Mr R Milvenan, Solicitor Hermes Parcelnet Ltd | Scotland | — |