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Tribunal Watch has indexed 15,215 UK employment tribunal cases involving disability discrimination claims, published on gov.uk since 2017. Where compensation was recorded, the median award was £7,650 (the largest £269,114) across 939 cases. Tribunals upheld 22% of the 8,602 decided disability discrimination claims. These cases name 11,146 distinct employers as respondents.
| Outcome | Claims | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Dismissed | 6,677 | 52% |
| Upheld | 1,925 | 15% |
| Other | 1,562 | 12% |
| Withdrawn | 1,442 | 11% |
| Struck out | 1,319 | 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 | 1,478 | |
| 2026 | 1,027 |
| 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 |
| 3302311/2023 | 18 June 2026 | Ms Rumyanka Spasova | Oak Farm (Taverham) Limited | £153,804 |
| 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 |
| Case ref. | Decided | Claimant | Primary respondent | Jurisdiction | Total award |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2303236/2019 | 28 February 2020 | — | — | England & Wales | — |
| 2302976/2017 | 28 February 2020 | Ms. E. Onigbanjo | London Borough of Croydon | England & Wales | — |
| 3321366/2019 | 28 February 2020 | Mrs C Hall | AstraZeneca UK Limited | England & Wales | — |
| 2302617/2019 | 28 February 2020 | Mr C Williamson | The Napit Group Ltd | England & Wales | — |
| 2503779/2019 | 28 February 2020 | — | Owens v Together for Children Sunderland Ltd | England & Wales | — |
| 1404025/2019 | 28 February 2020 | Mr J Galloway | Porton Biopharma Limited | England & Wales | — |
| 2502031/2019 | 28 February 2020 | Miss E Evans | Rudjarvy Limited | England & Wales | — |
| 1400200/2018 | 28 February 2020 | Mrs B Vaz | Great Western Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust Swindon |
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 | Network Rail Infrastructure Limited | 34 |
| 17 | The Commissioners for Her Majesty’s Revenue and Customs | 34 |
| 18 | Amazon UK Services Limited | 31 |
| 19 | Wm Morrison Supermarkets Limited | 31 |
| 20 | DHL Services Limited | 28 |
| England & Wales |
| — |
| 2304213/2018 | 28 February 2020 | Mr S Ahmed | Publish What You Pay | England & Wales | — |
| 1403364/2019 | 28 February 2020 | Ms K Conroy | Trufflehunter Limited | England & Wales | — |
| 2502012/2019 | 28 February 2020 | Miss D Findley | Care UK Community Partnerships Limited | England & Wales | — |
| 1402838/2019 | 28 February 2020 | Mr D Hawes | Alliance Healthcare Management Services Ltd | England & Wales | — |
| 1400432/2019 | 28 February 2020 | Mrs M Francis | Ordnance Survey Ltd | England & Wales | — |
| 2304035/2018 | 28 February 2020 | Mrs M Parish | Midkent College | England & Wales | — |
| 2500403/2019 | 28 February 2020 | Mrs S Dumble | Croft Care Group & Others | England & Wales | — |
| 2202204/2019 | 27 February 2020 | Mr J Davies (Counsel) | — | England & Wales | — |
| 1804541/2019 | 27 February 2020 | Mrs RE Bamfield | The Chief Constable of West Yorkshire Police AT A HEARING | England & Wales | — |
| 2416775/2019 | 27 February 2020 | Miss J Swindail | Fourth Ltd | England & Wales | — |
| 1601725/2019 | 27 February 2020 | Mrs B James | Marks and Spencer plc | England & Wales | — |
| 1802226/2019 | 27 February 2020 | Mr J Frederick | R1: Ian Townsend t/a Rebian Solicitors R2: Rebecca Townsend t/a Rebian Solictors | England & Wales | — |
| 1304184/2018 | 27 February 2020 | Mr T Allsop, Solicitor For the | — | England & Wales | — |
| 2304223/2019 | 27 February 2020 | Mr J Mason | MITIE Business Services Limited | England & Wales | — |
| 3201920/2019 | 27 February 2020 | Mr J Wright | Siemens Mobility Limited | England & Wales | — |
| 3334713/2018 | 27 February 2020 | Mr S Smialek | Ingram Micro (UK) Limited | England & Wales | — |
| 1803739/2019 | 27 February 2020 | Mr I Simpson | Ashstead Plant Hire Company Limited | England & Wales | — |
| 4102337/2018 | 27 February 2020 | Mr A Burke | Sky Subscribers Services Limited | Scotland | — |
| 3329195/2017 | 27 February 2020 | Mr H Abusheikha | West Hertfordshire NHS Trust | England & Wales | — |
| 1806988/2019 | 27 February 2020 | Mr B Heaney-Edwards | R1: Marshall Motor Group Limited R2: Jack Bramley | England & Wales | — |
| 4113568/2019 | 27 February 2020 | EMPLOYMENT TRIBUNALS (SCOTLAND) Case No: 4113568/2019 Mrs L Watson | BrewDog plc | Scotland | — |
| 2300830/2019 | 27 February 2020 | Mr K Burchmore | Tesco plc | England & Wales | — |
| 3200199/2019 | 27 February 2020 | Miss J Gauntlett | One Housing Group Limited | England & Wales | — |
| 2301802/2019 | 27 February 2020 | Ms S Jabul | South West London & St George’s Mental Health NHS Trust | England & Wales | — |
| 1806468/2019 | 27 February 2020 | Mrs M Hambleton | Debt Management (Services) Limited | England & Wales | — |
| 1800408/2020 | 27 February 2020 | Mr C Allender | Cirteq | England & Wales | — |
| 3327829/2019 | 27 February 2020 | Mrs L Wakenshaw | Shadwell Estate Company Limited | England & Wales | — |
| 2415221/2019 | 27 February 2020 | Ms E Bloodworth | Northern Rail | England & Wales | — |
| 2417937/2018 | 27 February 2020 | Mr L Bond | ResponseTap Limited | England & Wales | — |
| 2300802/2018 | 27 February 2020 | In person For the | — | England & Wales | — |
| 3332656/2018 | 27 February 2020 | Mr K Wilson | Squadron Leader Chris Kay | England & Wales | — |
| 2302624/2018 | 27 February 2020 | Mr Martinho Da Silva | Unilever UK Limited | England & Wales | — |
| 1400376/2019 | 27 February 2020 | Miss B Carpenter | Pets at Home Limited | England & Wales | — |
| 2405871/2019 | 27 February 2020 | Mr M Downs | Tesco Stores Ltd | England & Wales | — |
| 2503568/2018 | 27 February 2020 | Mrs S Cullen | Advisory, Conciliation and Arbitration Service | England & Wales | — |
| 3324808/2019 | 27 February 2020 | Mr A Morrill | Sainsburys Supermarkets Ltd | England & Wales | — |
| 1601414/2019 | 27 February 2020 | Mr O Wilson | Scott Medway & Others | England & Wales | — |
| 2303642/2019 | 27 February 2020 | Mr D Thorley | National Crime Agency | England & Wales | — |
| 1600159/2019 | 27 February 2020 | Mr T Wakefield & Mrs J Wakefield | Mr Mark Roberts – Gwel Mor Park | England & Wales | — |
| 1403515/2019 | 26 February 2020 | In person For the | Miss Sarah Lovell, Solicitor | England & Wales | — |
| 1302405/2019 | 26 February 2020 | Mr A Adams | Vale Royal Clinical Commissioning Group | England & Wales | — |