Claim pillar
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| Withdrawn | 1,435 | 11% |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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1400491/2020 | 15 July 2020 | Mrs N White | Nurse Plus & Carer Plus (UK ) Ltd | England & Wales | — |
| 3314194/2019 | 15 July 2020 | Mrs M Lewicka | Hartwell plc | England & Wales | — |
| 2501383/2020 | 15 July 2020 | Ms D Robson | Mayborn (UK) Ltd | England & Wales | — |
| 2401679/2020 | 14 July 2020 | Mr S Dale | The Barking Bakery | England & Wales | — |
| 2411435/2019 | 14 July 2020 | Mrs C Hathaway | National Westminster Bank plc | England & Wales | — |
| 1305256/2020 | 14 July 2020 | Mr P Prosser | Baxi Heating UK Ltd | England & Wales | — |
| 2401244/2020 | 14 July 2020 | Mr I McLellan | The Police Federation of England and Wales | England & Wales | — |
| 4111873/2019 | 14 July 2020 | — | Cygnet Healthcare |
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.
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| 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 |
| Scotland |
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| 1802474/2020 | 14 July 2020 | Ms J Shaw Respondent (1): Respondent (2): Respondent (3): Financial Options (Selby) Ltd Stephen (Steve) Bryson Steve Bryson | Ms Hutchinson | England & Wales | — |
| 3200000/2020 | 14 July 2020 | Mr S Bartlett | Choice Discount Stores Limited | England & Wales | — |
| 1402126/2020 | 14 July 2020 | Mr D Barretto | The Chief Constable of Wiltshire Police | England & Wales | — |
| 1804943/2019 | 14 July 2020 | Ms C Budgen | Minster Law Ltd | England & Wales | — |
| 1400863/2020 | 14 July 2020 | Mr G Waugh-Bacchus | John Lewis plc | England & Wales | — |
| 1402450/2020 | 14 July 2020 | Miss S Williams | P.T. Winchester Limited | England & Wales | — |
| 1802387/2020 | 14 July 2020 | Mrs N Wilkinson | Leeds Community Healthcare NHS Trust | England & Wales | — |
| 1401522/2020 | 14 July 2020 | Mrs K Garnett | Aruk Global Limited - Adaptavist | England & Wales | — |
| 1402896/2019 | 14 July 2020 | Mrs S Mills | Dorset Healthcare University NHS Foundation Trust | England & Wales | — |
| 1403160/2019 | 14 July 2020 | Mr L Christiansen | EE Limited | England & Wales | — |
| 1800592/2020 | 14 July 2020 | Mr L Sutheren | Northside Truck and Van Ltd | England & Wales | — |
| 2413785/2019 | 14 July 2020 | Mrs B McGrath | Tesco Stores Ltd | England & Wales | — |
| 3200396/2020 | 14 July 2020 | Miss S Bullici | Financial Ombudsman Service Limited | England & Wales | — |
| 2304838/2019 | 14 July 2020 | Mr D Patterson | Amberstone Security Limited | England & Wales | — |
| 1400269/2020 | 14 July 2020 | Ms P Bates | Sodexo Limited | England & Wales | — |
| 2416717/2019 | 14 July 2020 | Ms R Hehir | Edge Hill University | England & Wales | — |
| 2601692/2020 | 14 July 2020 | Mr A Jaworski |  Fairfax Meadow Europe Limited | England & Wales | £15,157 |
| 3200391/2020 | 14 July 2020 | Mr L Khalaf | Financial Ombudsman Service Limited | England & Wales | — |
| 3302321/2020 | 14 July 2020 | In person | — | England & Wales | — |
| 2401592/2019 | 13 July 2020 | Mr D Seale | Virgin Media Limited | England & Wales | — |
| 2500802/2019 | 13 July 2020 | Miss KL Jamieson | Accent Group Ltd | England & Wales | — |
| 1303507/2019 | 13 July 2020 | Miss B Duhela | Department for Work and Pensions | England & Wales | — |
| 2406514/2019 | 13 July 2020 | Mr P Montana | The Carphone Warehouse Limited | England & Wales | — |
| 1405904/2019 | 13 July 2020 | Did not attend and was not represented (claimant’s email, withdrawing the claim, received by the judge after the start of the preliminary hearing) For the | Capita plc | England & Wales | — |
| 1400597/2019 | 13 July 2020 | Mrs N M K Brake (1) and Mr A Y Brake (2) | Axnoller Events Ltd | England & Wales | — |
| 2203813/2019 | 13 July 2020 | In person For | — | England & Wales | — |
| 1802166/2020 | 13 July 2020 | Mr H Boyles | Ferraris Piston Service Limited | England & Wales | — |
| 4108797/2019 | 13 July 2020 | EMPLOYMENT TRIBUNALS (SCOTLAND) Case No: 4108797/2019 Ms E Stewart | Represented by: Mr J E MacMillan Solicitor British Transport Police st | Scotland | — |
| 1405802/2019 | 13 July 2020 | Mr M Foster First | Maritime and Coastguard Agency Second Respondent: Global Resourcing Limited | England & Wales | — |
| 2200418/2020 | 13 July 2020 | Mr D Nicastro | Openreach Ltd | England & Wales | — |
| 1800079/2019 | 13 July 2020 | Ms R Kight of Counsel (instructed by Banner Jones) | Royal Mail Group Limited | England & Wales | — |
| 3334412/2018 | 13 July 2020 | Mr M Mensah, Counsel For the | — | England & Wales | — |
| 3335204/2018 | 10 July 2020 | Mr M Cairns | Kentucky Fried Chicken (Great Britain) Limited | England & Wales | — |
| 3318773/2019 | 10 July 2020 | Mr S. Hazeldine | The Royal Bank Of Scotland Group plc | England & Wales | — |
| 1801483/2020 | 10 July 2020 | Mr P Seaton | Northern Health Ltd | England & Wales | — |
| 2401891/2019 | 10 July 2020 | Mrs R Ogujor | Midshires Care Ltd T/a Helping Hands Home Care | England & Wales | — |
| 1803390/2020 | 10 July 2020 | Miss M Budding | Boots UK Limited & Others | England & Wales | — |
| 1400855/2020 | 10 July 2020 | Miss E Dalby | Walden Enterprise Ltd | England & Wales | — |
| 1304812/2020 | 10 July 2020 | Mr J Luckett (in person) For the | Mr P Sands (Solicitor) | England & Wales | — |
| 3200583/2020 | 10 July 2020 | Miss A Sheikh | Ernst & Young LLP | England & Wales | — |
| 3202791/2019 | 10 July 2020 | Mr A Keirs | Homerton University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust | England & Wales | — |
| 1601753/2018 | 10 July 2020 | Mr J Ellis | GB&I Ltd | England & Wales | — |