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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| Withdrawn | 1,435 | 11% |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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2305663/2019 | 22 July 2020 | Mrs S Verlander | Clifton Court Development | England & Wales | — |
| 3201931/2019 | 21 July 2020 | Mr M Slater | Exponential-E Limited | England & Wales | — |
| 3200321/2020 | 21 July 2020 | Mr C Burch | Chief Constable of Essex Police | England & Wales | — |
| 1600540/2019 | 21 July 2020 | In person For the | — | England & Wales | — |
| 3201783/2019 | 21 July 2020 | Mr N Walker | The Mighty Oak Brewing Company Limited | England & Wales | — |
| 3307097/2020 | 21 July 2020 | Mr James Kelly | Babergh and Mid Suffolk District Councils | England & Wales | — |
| 2201531/2020 | 21 July 2020 | Ms M Hancock | Securitas Security Services (UK) Limited | England & Wales | — |
| 1801945/2020 | 20 July 2020 | Mrs S Rhodes |
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 |
| England & Wales |
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| 1403075/2020 | 20 July 2020 | Ms G White | Redlynch Agricultural Engineering Limited | England & Wales | — |
| 2414451/2019 | 20 July 2020 | — | King-Lowe v The Riverside Group Ltd | England & Wales | — |
| 2400925/2020 | 20 July 2020 | Mrs I Owczarek-Pietrasik | Cloud Perspective Ltd | England & Wales | — |
| 1802602/2020 | 20 July 2020 | — | Fraser v Countrywide plc and others | England & Wales | — |
| 3319034/2019 | 20 July 2020 | Mr H Mansfield | Shakespeare Lodge TLA Limited | England & Wales | — |
| 2401647/2020 | 20 July 2020 | Mr S Fletcher | Hoover Candy Ltd | England & Wales | — |
| 1800661/2020 | 20 July 2020 | Ms H Anwar | Capita Customer Management Limited | England & Wales | — |
| 3302204/2020 | 20 July 2020 | In person For the | — | England & Wales | — |
| 3200580/2020 | 20 July 2020 | Mr C Lander | Incodia International Limited | England & Wales | — |
| 2410022/2019 | 19 July 2020 | Ms D Hambling | The Secretary of State for Justice | England & Wales | — |
| 3321681/2019 | 19 July 2020 | Mr B Greenwood | Rackspace Limited | England & Wales | — |
| 2410874/2019 | 19 July 2020 | Mr D Schofield | Purr-O-Lux Ltd & Others | England & Wales | — |
| 2410200/2019 | 19 July 2020 | Ms L Tyrer | Maximus UK Services Ltd | England & Wales | — |
| 2401956/2020 | 19 July 2020 | Ms E Woodward | Telefonica UK Limited | England & Wales | — |
| 3307427/2020 | 19 July 2020 | Mr G Kozakiewicz | Perenco UK Ltd | England & Wales | — |
| 3303381/2020 | 18 July 2020 | Mr G Cann | Cooperative Group Limited | England & Wales | — |
| 3314781/2019 | 18 July 2020 | Mr S Savage | BT Openreach | England & Wales | — |
| 3334287/2018 | 18 July 2020 | Mr G Graziano | Marks and Spencer plc | England & Wales | — |
| 3301581/2020 | 18 July 2020 | Mr M Beveridge | Travelodge | England & Wales | — |
| 3325499/2017 | 18 July 2020 | Miss R Cadd | Greensleeves Homes Trust | England & Wales | — |
| 3322284/2019 | 18 July 2020 | Mr S Trebich | Marks and Spencer plc | England & Wales | — |
| 3320587/2019 | 18 July 2020 | Mr P Buckell | One Traveller Ltd | England & Wales | — |
| 3321591/2019 | 18 July 2020 | Mr RP Lorenz | Bio-Techne Ltd | England & Wales | — |
| 3319585/2019 | 18 July 2020 | Mr P Patel | Johnson Matthey plc | England & Wales | — |
| 3323593/2019 | 18 July 2020 | Ms S Ratcliff | Rob Cockerill t/a Clancy’s Of Eye & Others | England & Wales | — |
| 2203478/2019 | 17 July 2020 | Mr F Ahmed | London Underground Limited | England & Wales | — |
| 1802618/2020 | 17 July 2020 | Miss C Ripley | Lakeside Dining Ltd t/a The Lakeside Café | England & Wales | — |
| 1403021/2019 | 17 July 2020 | Mr P O’Callaghan of Counsel For the | — | England & Wales | — |
| 1400983/2020 | 17 July 2020 | Dr J Shubber | Isle of Wight NHS Trust | England & Wales | — |
| 3325479/2019 | 17 July 2020 | Mr P. Bednarski | Adpol London Ltd | England & Wales | £14,467 |
| 3304142/2020 | 17 July 2020 | Mr S Jones | London Underground Limited | England & Wales | — |
| 1801047/2020 | 17 July 2020 | Mr M Keenan | Workers Educational Association (WEA) Heard: Remote Hearing by Telephone | England & Wales | — |
| 2601700/2020 | 16 July 2020 | Miss S Choudhury | National Probation Service | England & Wales | — |
| 3318959/2019 | 16 July 2020 | Miss F Guandin | Future Electronics Limited | England & Wales | — |
| 2502473/2019 | 16 July 2020 | Miss S Mason | The Commissioners for Her Majesty’s Revenue and Customs | England & Wales | — |
| 2202370/2019 | 15 July 2020 | Miss A Ahmed | Ministry of Justice | England & Wales | — |
| 2500860/2019 | 15 July 2020 | Mrs J Wolloms | CI Accountancy Limited | England & Wales | — |
| 2501383/2020 | 15 July 2020 | Ms D Robson | Mayborn (UK) Ltd | England & Wales | — |
| 2502073/2019 | 15 July 2020 | Miss L Rouesnel | Utilitywise plc (in Administration) | England & Wales | — |
| 3326465/2019 | 15 July 2020 | Ms K Walker | Genevac Limited | England & Wales | — |
| 1802476/2020 | 15 July 2020 | Miss C Taylor | Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust | England & Wales | — |
| 1406135/2019 | 15 July 2020 | In person For the | — | England & Wales | — |