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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| Withdrawn | 1,435 | 11% |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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1600770/2019 | 5 February 2020 | Mrs D Hunt | Asda Stores Limited | England & Wales | — |
| 2413751/2019 | 5 February 2020 | Ms J Foster | Spyke Enterprise Ltd T/a Bluebird Care Sefton | England & Wales | — |
| 3322185/2019 | 5 February 2020 | Miss R Owusu’Agyei (Counsel). For the | Mr N Allen (HR Officer). | England & Wales | £110,360 |
| 1804397/2019 | 4 February 2020 | Miss S Jackson | Department for Work and Pensions | England & Wales | — |
| 2402278/2019 | 4 February 2020 | Ms Z. Irving | British Telecommunications plc | England & Wales | — |
| 1400606/2019 | 4 February 2020 | Mr S Kirby | Key Office Solutions Limited | England & Wales | £26,032 |
| 3313304/2019 | 4 February 2020 | In person For the 1st, 2nd, 3rd & 5th | — | England & Wales | — |
| 2416239/2018 | 4 February 2020 | Mr Joel Ellis |
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 |
| Commissioners for HM Revenue & Customs |
| England & Wales |
| — |
| 2410261/2019 | 4 February 2020 | Mrs D Crutchley | The Together Trust | England & Wales | — |
| 4113807/2019 | 4 February 2020 | EMPLOYMENT TRIBUNALS (SCOTLAND) Case No: 4113807/2019 Mr G McVicar | JBD Tritec | Scotland | — |
| 1405959/2019 | 4 February 2020 | Mr F Yousafzai | Trago Mills Limited | England & Wales | — |
| 1600280/2019 | 3 February 2020 | Mr L Newman | St Vincent’s Community Support Limited | England & Wales | — |
| 3315882/2019 | 3 February 2020 | Miss K Thrower | Sse plc | England & Wales | — |
| 2303196/2019 | 3 February 2020 | Mrs M Wilson | Marks and Spencer plc | England & Wales | — |
| 3313719/2019 | 3 February 2020 | Mr J Kamunge | And Grundon Waste Management Limited | England & Wales | — |
| 2203791/2019 | 3 February 2020 | Miss E Guseva | Appollo International Ltd | England & Wales | £3,625 |
| 3312399/2019 | 3 February 2020 | Mr R Jenkins, Union representative. For the | — | England & Wales | — |
| 3300769/2015 | 3 February 2020 | Mr P Wenn | Ministry of Defence Police | England & Wales | — |
| 1309079/2019 | 3 February 2020 | Mr N Walton | Yell Limited | England & Wales | — |
| 2602149/2019 | 3 February 2020 | Mr LD George | The Secretary of State for Justice | England & Wales | — |
| 3202529/2018 | 3 February 2020 | Mr M Alexander-Boxall | The Commisioner Of The Police Of The Metropolis | England & Wales | — |
| 2602778/2019 | 3 February 2020 | Miss Z Siwak | Blinds2Go Limited | England & Wales | — |
| 1401871/2019 | 3 February 2020 | Mrs N Martin | Arqiva Limited | England & Wales | — |
| 3202108/2019 | 3 February 2020 | Mr G Seal | Ministry of Defence | England & Wales | — |
| 3321475/2019 | 3 February 2020 | Mr J Boyle | Harrow Law Centre & Others | England & Wales | — |
| 1806713/2019 | 3 February 2020 | Mr J Jones | Plusnet plc | England & Wales | — |
| 3323542/2019 | 3 February 2020 | Mr M A Malik | Post Office Ltd | England & Wales | — |
| 3327637/2019 | 3 February 2020 | Miss L Jones | Deafconnect & Others | England & Wales | — |
| 3322492/2019 | 2 February 2020 | Mr D Hodgkinson | Green Rose Care Limited | England & Wales | — |
| 3327288/2017 | 2 February 2020 | Mrs H Thomas | Commissioner of the Police of the Metropolis | England & Wales | — |
| 3303582/2019 | 2 February 2020 | Ms E Davies | Flow Energy Limited | England & Wales | — |
| 3324106/2019 | 2 February 2020 | Mrs YH Mitchell-Owen | London Energy Ltd | England & Wales | — |
| 3320440/2019 | 2 February 2020 | Mr S Lowe | Olive Grove Oundle Limited | England & Wales | — |
| 3315986/2019 | 2 February 2020 | Miss E Clark | Pets at Home Limited | England & Wales | — |
| 3318750/2019 | 2 February 2020 | Miss L Green | The Open University | England & Wales | — |
| 3319681/2019 | 2 February 2020 | Ms KE Hough | The Governing Body Of The Oxford Academy | England & Wales | — |
| 1308843/2019 | 1 February 2020 | Miss E Lee | Wendy Sanders | England & Wales | — |
| 2603313/2019 | 31 January 2020 | Mr C Doherty | The Commissioners for Her Majesty’s Revenue and Customs | England & Wales | — |
| 2302573/2019 | 31 January 2020 | Ms R Jones | Superdrug Stores plc | England & Wales | — |
| 1403069/2019 | 31 January 2020 | Ms P Wozniak | CDS Superstores (International) Limited (t/a The Range) | England & Wales | — |
| 2301899/2019 | 31 January 2020 | Mr P Eyison | Wilson James Ltd | England & Wales | — |
| 4123812/2018 | 31 January 2020 | EMPLOYMENT TRIBUNALS (SCOTLAND) Case No: 4123812/2018 & 4107329/2019 Mr S Hamilton | Specialized Security Guarding Limited | Scotland | — |
| 4105939/2019 | 31 January 2020 | — | Dundee Visionplus Ltd (T/a Specsavers Dundee) | Scotland | — |
| 1806781/2019 | 31 January 2020 | Mr A Balmforth | Next Distribution Limited | England & Wales | — |
| 2301079/2018 | 31 January 2020 | Mr P Vernon | Centronic Limited | England & Wales | — |
| 2414941/2019 | 31 January 2020 | Ms E Fair | Unite the Union | England & Wales | — |
| 1807152/2019 | 31 January 2020 | — | Baer v Tesco Stores Ltd | England & Wales | — |
| 2302297/2018 | 31 January 2020 | Mr. Pubbi | Your-Move.co.uk Limited | England & Wales | — |
| 4111594/2019 | 31 January 2020 | EMPLOYMENT TRIBUNALS (SCOTLAND) Case No: 4111594/2019 Mr M McNeillie | : William Grant & Sons Distillers Limited | Scotland | — |
| 2416449/2018 | 31 January 2020 | Mrs S Walsh | Rose Medical Limited | England & Wales | — |