Claim pillar
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| Withdrawn | 1,442 | 11% |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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2300203/2019 | 1 January 2020 | Mr G Allan | Compass Group UK & Ireland Ltd | England & Wales | — |
| 1401383/2019 | 31 December 2019 | Mr J Wise | Network Rail Infrastructure Limited | England & Wales | — |
| 1404592/2019 | 31 December 2019 | Mr C Sumner | Micro Focus Software UK Limited | England & Wales | — |
| 2602355/2019 | 31 December 2019 | Mr CW McLaughlin | Boots Management Services Ltd | England & Wales | — |
| 1400948/2019 | 31 December 2019 | Miss KJ Barnes | Cornwall Partnership NHS Foundation Trust | England & Wales | — |
| 1803554/2019 | 31 December 2019 | Mr R Beck | Owens-Corning Veil U.K. Ltd | England & Wales | — |
| 1403900/2019 | 31 December 2019 | Mr D Passmore | Bodycombe Logistics Ltd | England & Wales | — |
| 1601193/2018 | 31 December 2019 |
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 | 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 |
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| Valero Operations Support Limited Valero Energy Limited |
| England & Wales |
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| 1803576/2019 | 31 December 2019 | Mr E McCutcheon | Yorkshire Ambulance Service NHS Trust | England & Wales | — |
| 1400580/2019 | 31 December 2019 | Mrs S Greenway (Personal representative of Mr AW Greenaway (Deceased) | Luke Furse Earthmoving Ltd | England & Wales | — |
| 3321339/2019 | 31 December 2019 | Mr D Bean | — | England & Wales | — |
| 1804456/2019 | 31 December 2019 | Mrs L Smith | R1: Bestcare UK Ltd R2: Howard Emanuel | England & Wales | — |
| 1806488/2019 | 31 December 2019 | Mrs S Purewal | Link Market Services Limited | England & Wales | — |
| 3200240/2019 | 31 December 2019 | Mr A Hannan | Mercedes-Benz Retail Group UK Limited | England & Wales | — |
| 2300930/2019 | 31 December 2019 | Mr S Kargbo | Serco Limited | England & Wales | — |
| 4102721/2019 | 30 December 2019 | Ms E Storey | Whisky Merchant Trading Ltd | Scotland | — |
| 3300058/2019 | 30 December 2019 | Mr D Kaylor | Suffolk Norse Limited | England & Wales | — |
| 1805412/2019 | 30 December 2019 | Mr U Hasan | Lowell Financial Ltd | England & Wales | — |
| 1403621/2018 | 30 December 2019 | Ms A Rafeeq | Hearing Aids Direct Limited (In Compulsory Liquidation) | England & Wales | — |
| 1400409/2019 | 30 December 2019 | Mr JT Whyte | Southampton City Council | England & Wales | — |
| 1403681/2019 | 30 December 2019 | Mr M Byrne | Swan Retail Limited | England & Wales | — |
| 1400173/2019 | 30 December 2019 | Mr JA Lawal | Mr G Collier and Miss R Collier (In partnership t/a Marine Gardens Restaurant) | England & Wales | — |
| 1803990/2019 | 30 December 2019 | Ms S Bennett | Total Polyfilm Limited (in administration) | England & Wales | — |
| 2602169/2019 | 30 December 2019 | Mrs R Hilton | Maximus UK Services Ltd Considered at: Tribunals Hearing Centre, 50 Carrington Street, Nottingham, NG1 7FG on the papers | England & Wales | — |
| 3300394/2019 | 30 December 2019 | Mr T Dworakowski | Faccenda Foods Limited | England & Wales | — |
| 1600686/2019 | 30 December 2019 | Mr P Creamer | Tesco Stores Ltd | England & Wales | — |
| 2401600/2019 | 30 December 2019 | Miss R Brockley | Royal Liverpool & Broadgreen University Hospitals NHS Trust | England & Wales | — |
| 3303583/2019 | 30 December 2019 | Mr G Fernandes | Virgin Atlantic Airways Limited | England & Wales | — |
| 1802429/2019 | 30 December 2019 | Mr M Zanelli | IKEA Ltd | England & Wales | — |
| 1400103/2019 | 30 December 2019 | Mrs J Hickman | Devon Partnership NHS Trust | England & Wales | — |
| 1401149/2019 | 30 December 2019 | Miss N Green | Primark Stores Limited | England & Wales | — |
| 1403699/2019 | 30 December 2019 | Miss S Tehrani | Liverpool Victoria Friendly Society Limited | England & Wales | — |
| 1400019/2019 | 30 December 2019 | Mrs S Maszuchin | Lloyds Bank plc | England & Wales | — |
| 1300052/2019 | 30 December 2019 | Mr P Kemp | Jardine | England & Wales | — |
| 4111304/2019 | 27 December 2019 | EMPLOYMENT TRIBUNALS (SCOTLAND) Case No: 4111304/2019 Mr J Sparks | Decathlon UK Limited | Scotland | — |
| 4107801/2019 | 27 December 2019 | Mr C Tosh | The Chief Constable of the Police | Scotland | — |
| 2424170/2017 | 24 December 2019 | Ms A Howarth | Bouygues ES FM UK Ltd | England & Wales | — |
| 2406476/2019 | 24 December 2019 | Mrs D Derbyshire | Governing Body Of Harwood Park Primary School & Others | England & Wales | — |
| 1403159/2019 | 24 December 2019 | Miss L Buckingham | Lloyd's Banking Group | England & Wales | — |
| 1805431/2019 | 24 December 2019 | Mr D Hadfield | Lincolnshire Road Care Company Limited | England & Wales | — |
| 4107868/2019 | 24 December 2019 | EMPLOYMENT TRIBUNALS (SCOTLAND) Case No: 4107868/2019 Miss A Noble | Represented by: Midlothian Council | Scotland | — |
| 4110498/2019 | 24 December 2019 | EMPLOYMENT TRIBUNALS (SCOTLAND) Case No: 4110498/2019 Ms C Letson | JD Sports Fashion plc | Scotland | — |
| 2402066/2019 | 24 December 2019 | Miss Dawn Louise Sheridan | Aspire Recruitment Partnership Limited | England & Wales | — |
| 1403658/2019 | 24 December 2019 | Ms R Turner | North Hill Homecare Ltd | England & Wales | — |
| 2410879/2019 | 24 December 2019 | Ms H Lofthouse | Department for Work and Pensions | England & Wales | — |
| 2410640/2019 | 24 December 2019 | Mr M McCarthy | Intraining / Newcastle College Group & Others | England & Wales | — |
| 2410335/2019 | 24 December 2019 | Mr AA Parhiar | Amazon UK Services Limited | England & Wales | — |
| 2600465/2019 | 23 December 2019 | Mrs K de Herder | Saint-Gobain Construction Products Limited t/a Artex | England & Wales | — |
| 1307744/2019 | 23 December 2019 | Mr A Peake | Coventry University | England & Wales | — |
| 2502913/2019 | 23 December 2019 | Mrs A Garfoot | Northumbria Police | England & Wales | — |