Disability discrimination employment tribunal cases — UK data 2017–present
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.
Total cases
15,215
Median award
£7,650
Claims upheld
22%
Largest single award
£269,114
Distinct employers
11,146
England & Wales
13,810
Scotland
1,405
Compensation in disability discrimination cases
939 cases with a recorded award
Median
£7,650
Mean
£15,394
25th percentile
£2,000
75th percentile
£18,724
90th percentile
£36,566
Largest
£269,114
Figures are the total award recorded across cases that include a disability discrimination claim and a published remedy — 939 of 15,215 disability discrimination cases. Many tribunal judgments decide liability only, with compensation set at a later hearing, so they are not counted here. A judgment combining several claim types contributes its whole award. Nothing here is legal advice or a prediction of any individual outcome.
Outcomes of disability discrimination claims
12,954 adjudicated claims
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Withdrawn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%
Counting only claims a tribunal decided on the merits (upheld or dismissed), 22% of disability discrimination claims were upheld — 1,925 of 8,602. Settled and withdrawn claims are excluded from that rate. Outcomes are recorded per claim, so a judgment can uphold one claim and dismiss another.
ETZ 4(WR) IN THE EMPLOYMENT TRIBUNAL (SCOTLAND) AT EDINBURGH Judgment of the Employment Tribunal in Conjoined Cases No: 4104090/2016 and 4106953/2017 Heard at Edinburgh on 18, 19, 25, 26, and September, 02, 03, October and 01, and November 2018 and on February and February 2019 and Deliberations on February, March 2019, and and April 2019 Employment Judge J G d’Inverno, QVRM, TD, VR, WS Tribunal Member Ms P McColl Tribunal Member Mr S Currie Ms M Hamilton
Methodology
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.