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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| Withdrawn | 1,442 | 11% |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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1400552/2018 | 28 November 2019 | Miss K Linsley-Hood | Camps International Group Ltd | England & Wales | £42,284 |
| 2601103/2019 | 28 November 2019 | Mrs N Jones | Next Retail Limited T/A Next Online | England & Wales | — |
| 1302402/2019 | 28 November 2019 | Mr O Sadiq | Home Office - Asylum Operations | England & Wales | — |
| 2415476/2018 | 28 November 2019 | Ms S Herdan | Stockport Metropolitan Borough Council | England & Wales | — |
| 4107426/2019 | 28 November 2019 | EMPLOYMENT TRIBUNALS (SCOTLAND) Case No: 4107426/2019 Mr P Gallacher | Marks and Spencer plc | Scotland | — |
| 3200510/2019 | 28 November 2019 | Ms A Sterling | Begbies Traynor Ltd & Others | England & Wales | — |
| 2501825/2019 | 28 November 2019 | Miss H Johnson | Mr K Graham & Mrs M Graham | England & Wales | £1,710 |
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 |
| 28 November 2019 |
| Mr A Ansari |
| Zenith Vehicle Contracts Ltd |
| England & Wales |
| — |
| 4107691/2019 | 28 November 2019 | Mrs J Purvis | The Highland Council | Scotland | — |
| 2505499/2013 | 28 November 2019 | Mr A Rayfield | The Secretary of State for Justice | England & Wales | — |
| 1804336/2019 | 28 November 2019 | Mr S Dobson | Made By Sauce Limited | England & Wales | — |
| 2602096/2019 | 28 November 2019 | Miss H Day | Tesco plc | England & Wales | — |
| 3347665/2016 | 28 November 2019 | Miss Tewkesbury For the | Mr Brotherton | England & Wales | — |
| 2401408/2019 | 28 November 2019 | Mr Neil Duke | B&M Retail Ltd | England & Wales | — |
| 2402835/2019 | 28 November 2019 | Miss N Harrison | Merseyrail Electrics (2002) Limited | England & Wales | — |
| 2302650/2017 | 28 November 2019 | Mr D Martin | Abellio London Limited | England & Wales | — |
| 1811616/2018 | 28 November 2019 | Mr D Fincham | Asda Stores Limited | England & Wales | — |
| 1600322/2019 | 28 November 2019 | In Person For the | — | England & Wales | — |
| 1403047/2018 | 28 November 2019 | Mrs Lambert | EXPD8 Limited | England & Wales | — |
| 2300275/2019 | 28 November 2019 | Miss D French | TJ Morris Limited | England & Wales | — |
| 1600956/2019 | 27 November 2019 | Mr P Hutchinson | British Telecommunications plc | England & Wales | — |
| 2411540/2019 | 27 November 2019 | Mrs L Jones | Lorraine Amiri | England & Wales | — |
| 2203764/2019 | 27 November 2019 | Levinna Ola | Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust | England & Wales | — |
| 3200220/2019 | 27 November 2019 | Miss C Umunna | Newham Council | England & Wales | — |
| 1801115/2019 | 27 November 2019 | Ms N Robinson | St Anne'S Community Services | England & Wales | — |
| 3201207/2019 | 27 November 2019 | Mr T Premraj | Miss W Barker (Drivercare Administration) | England & Wales | — |
| 1601571/2019 | 27 November 2019 | Mr P Aardal | My Motor .net | England & Wales | — |
| 3202192/2018 | 27 November 2019 | Ms D Holmes | London Borough of Tower Hamlets | England & Wales | £7,109 |
| 1600555/2019 | 27 November 2019 | Mrs H Summer | Bestway Panacea Holdings Limited t/a Well Pharmacy | England & Wales | — |
| 2414490/2018 | 27 November 2019 | Mrs C Allman | Chester West And Chester Borough Council & Others | England & Wales | — |
| 2416865/2018 | 27 November 2019 | Mr P Butler | Air Products plc | England & Wales | — |
| 2203017/2019 | 27 November 2019 | Mr I Al-Ojaili | Incopro Limited | England & Wales | — |
| 2410172/2019 | 27 November 2019 | in person | Mr T Wood | England & Wales | — |
| 2410524/2019 | 27 November 2019 | Miss L Isted | Bayview Gardens Limited | England & Wales | — |
| 2503564/2018 | 27 November 2019 | Mrs Julie Waugh | Department for Work and Pensions | England & Wales | — |
| 3335610/2018 | 27 November 2019 | Mr Murtaza Arif | Greenwich Leisure Centre Limited | England & Wales | — |
| 1600571/2019 | 27 November 2019 | Mr J Frowen | Mr Mark Haydon (Respondent 4) | England & Wales | — |
| 1601641/2018 | 27 November 2019 | Mr D Hayden | Cymru Coaches Limited | England & Wales | — |
| 2406052/2019 | 27 November 2019 | Mr S Patel | Armstrong Works Limited | England & Wales | — |
| 1600240/2019 | 27 November 2019 | Ms A Kaviya | Partnerships In Care | England & Wales | — |
| 1601288/2018 | 27 November 2019 | Mr M Wells | Babcock Aerospace Ltd | England & Wales | — |
| 2602007/2019 | 27 November 2019 | Mr D Vakani | Caterpillar UK Limited | England & Wales | — |
| 1805227/2019 | 27 November 2019 | Mr J Williams | Soul Coffee House Limited AT A HEARING | England & Wales | — |
| 2416265/2018 | 27 November 2019 | Mr S Maloney | Tesco Stores Ltd | England & Wales | — |
| 1805140/2019 | 27 November 2019 | Steven Dore | Middlegate Europe Limited | England & Wales | — |
| 1805394/2019 | 26 November 2019 | Mr C Simpson | Mis Conversions Ltd | England & Wales | — |
| 1601095/2019 | 26 November 2019 | Miss S Taylor | Motonovo Finance | England & Wales | — |
| 2502378/2019 | 26 November 2019 | Miss E Wright | Environment Agency | England & Wales | — |
| 2501310/2018 | 26 November 2019 | Mr P Spence | The Secretary of State for Justice | England & Wales | — |
| 2301853/2017 | 26 November 2019 | In person For the | — | England & Wales | — |