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Tribunal Watch has indexed 14,981 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 8,457 decided disability discrimination claims. These cases name 11,011 distinct employers as respondents.
| Outcome | Claims | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Dismissed | 6,547 | 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| Withdrawn | 1,435 | 11% |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 | 797 |
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1405986/2019 | 22 April 2020 | Mr S McGrath | SWL Security Services | England & Wales | — |
| 1303412/2019 | 22 April 2020 | Mr CE Loveitt | Tesco Stores Ltd | England & Wales | — |
| 3307167/2018 | 22 April 2020 | In person For the | Mr D McCrum, solicitor | England & Wales | — |
| 2202687/2019 | 22 April 2020 | Ms D Spezzano | The Juice Plus+ Company Ltd | England & Wales | — |
| 1800176/2020 | 22 April 2020 | Mr I Hunt | The Secretary of State for Justice | England & Wales | — |
| 2410540/2019 | 22 April 2020 | Mr P Hennifer | Royal Mail Group Limited | England & Wales | — |
| 2413409/2019 | 22 April 2020 | Mr L Thompson | SSCL c/o Sopra Steria & Others | England & Wales | — |
| 1400074/2020 | 22 April 2020 | Mr C Young | Denholm industrial services Ltd |
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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| 2400159/2020 | 22 April 2020 | Mr N Horner | Greater Manchester Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust | England & Wales | — |
| 2202030/2019 | 21 April 2020 | Mr S Lester | Hermes Fund Managers Limited & Paul Mortley | England & Wales | — |
| 2203132/2019 | 21 April 2020 | Mr M Penny | Veolia ES (UK) Ltd | England & Wales | — |
| 2413687/2019 | 21 April 2020 | Mr K Bates | Sainsbury’s Supermarkets Limited | England & Wales | — |
| 3319360/2019 | 21 April 2020 | Ms T Kazmi | Verizon UK Limited | England & Wales | — |
| 2502500/2019 | 21 April 2020 | Mr D Taheri | Happy Customers Group Limited | England & Wales | — |
| 1307837/2019 | 21 April 2020 | Ms R Evers First | MFG Legal Services Limited Second Respondent: MFG Solicitors LLP | England & Wales | — |
| 4111842/2019 | 21 April 2020 | Mr S Smith | Teleperformance limited | Scotland | — |
| 3300000/2019 | 21 April 2020 | Ms L Dixon-Davies (Friend). For the | — | England & Wales | — |
| 2500067/2020 | 21 April 2020 | Mr S Garbutt | Avant Homes | England & Wales | — |
| 3300547/2019 | 21 April 2020 | Jacqueline Ward | Slough Children’s Services Trust | England & Wales | — |
| 3306881/2018 | 21 April 2020 | — | British Telecommunications plc | England & Wales | — |
| 3321546/2019 | 20 April 2020 | Mr A Farell | Euramax Coated Products Limited | England & Wales | — |
| 1600232/2020 | 20 April 2020 | Mrs L Casa | Hawker Siddeley Switchgear Ltd (trading As Brush Switchgear) | England & Wales | — |
| 4107860/2019 | 20 April 2020 | Julie Ward Andrew McFarlane Ms Philomena Donnachie | Represented by: Mr B McLaughlin - Solicitor Mr Stuart McMillan MSP | Scotland | — |
| 1403718/2019 | 20 April 2020 | Mr R Kynaston | Simon Davis Flooring Ltd | England & Wales | — |
| 3203106/2019 | 20 April 2020 | — | Fox v London Borough of Newham | England & Wales | — |
| 2200324/2020 | 20 April 2020 | Mr M Dalvair | Mr Nick Ford | England & Wales | — |
| 1305995/2019 | 20 April 2020 | Mrs J Morrey | Mayfair Foods Ltd | England & Wales | — |
| 2204864/2019 | 20 April 2020 | Mr N Cox | Sovereign Capital Partners LLP & Others | England & Wales | — |
| 2203855/2019 | 20 April 2020 | Ms S Wright | Pocket Living | England & Wales | — |
| 2500204/2020 | 20 April 2020 | Mr S D Wood | W. Liddy & Co. Ltd | England & Wales | — |
| 3324958/2019 | 20 April 2020 | Mr N Harris | Hovis Ltd | England & Wales | — |
| 3318965/2019 | 20 April 2020 | Mr J Robinson | Tesco Stores Ltd | England & Wales | — |
| 1602046/2019 | 20 April 2020 | Mr A Johnson | Royal Mail Group Limited | England & Wales | — |
| 3314052/2019 | 20 April 2020 | Mr M Dine | Kingdom Services Group Limited | England & Wales | — |
| 1800197/2020 | 20 April 2020 | Mr A Hunter | Warrendale Farms Ltd | England & Wales | — |
| 1402479/2019 | 20 April 2020 | Ms K Fisher | Bestway Panacea Holdings Limited t/a Well Pharmacy | England & Wales | — |
| 2204793/2019 | 20 April 2020 | Mr DA Delgado | Porsche Retail Group Limited | England & Wales | — |
| 1308095/2019 | 18 April 2020 | Mr R Pullen | Bedstone Educational Limited | England & Wales | — |
| 1406245/2019 | 17 April 2020 | Mr A Sears | Plastic Reinforcement Fabrics Limited | England & Wales | — |
| 2201278/2020 | 17 April 2020 | Mrs A Watts | Impact Creative Recruitment Ltd | England & Wales | — |
| 1600401/2019 | 17 April 2020 | Mr I Brain | City and County of Swansea | England & Wales | — |
| 1400589/2020 | 17 April 2020 | Mrs J Croombs | Gemma Limburn | England & Wales | — |
| 1600822/2019 | 17 April 2020 | Mr J Dos Santos Aveiro | Open Reach Limited | England & Wales | — |
| 2200204/2020 | 17 April 2020 | Mr D Goodwin | Greggs plc | England & Wales | — |
| 1400487/2020 | 17 April 2020 | Mr S Roberts | Alessandro Gatta | England & Wales | — |
| 1406155/2019 | 17 April 2020 | — | Royal Mail Group Limited | England & Wales | — |
| 1406087/2019 | 17 April 2020 | Mr D Hayes | Amberon Ltd | England & Wales | — |
| 2205288/2019 | 17 April 2020 | Miss J Beckwith | 1St Step Solutions Ltd | England & Wales | — |
| 2202413/2018 | 17 April 2020 | Mr D Patel | Konica Minolta Business Solution (UK) Limited | England & Wales | — |
| 3326162/2019 | 17 April 2020 | Mr Brayshaw, Claimant’s partner and lay representative | — | England & Wales | — |