How much compensation do disability discrimination claims award at an employment tribunal?

Across 933 UK disability discrimination tribunal cases with a recorded remedy since 2017, the median total award was £7,571 and the largest was £269,114.

What percentage of disability discrimination claims succeed at an employment tribunal?

Of 8,457 disability discrimination claims decided on the merits by UK tribunals, 23% were upheld.

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Disability discrimination compensation & tribunal success rate — UK data (page 287) | Tribunal Watch

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Disability discrimination employment tribunal cases — UK data 2017–present

Name: Disability discrimination UK employment tribunal statistics
Creator: Tribunal Watch
License: https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/

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.

Total cases: 14,981
Median award: £7,571
Claims upheld: 23%
Largest single award: £269,114
Distinct employers: 11,011
England & Wales: 13,611
Scotland: 1,370

Compensation in disability discrimination cases

933 cases with a recorded award

Median: £7,571
Mean: £15,234
25th percentile: £1,997
75th percentile: £18,684
90th percentile: £36,470
Largest: £269,114

Figures are the total award recorded across cases that include a disability discrimination claim and a published remedy — 933 of 14,981 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

12,749 adjudicated claims

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Withdrawn	1,435	11%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%

Counting only claims a tribunal decided on the merits (upheld or dismissed), 23% of disability discrimination claims were upheld — 1,910 of 8,457. Settled and withdrawn claims are excluded from that rate. Outcomes are recorded per claim, so a judgment can uphold one claim and dismiss another.

Disability discrimination cases per year

2017–2026

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

Largest disability discrimination awards

Top 8 by total award

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

Top employers — disability discrimination cases

20 ranked by case count

#	Employer	Cases
01	Royal Mail Group Limited	185
02	The Secretary of State for Justice	113
03	Department for Work and Pensions	105
04	Tesco Stores Ltd	87
05	Asda Stores Limited	78
06	Ministry of Defence	52
07	Marks and Spencer plc	48
08	The Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis	48
09	Home Office	43
10	John Lewis plc	39
11	Openreach Ltd	38
12	Mitie Limited	37
13	Sainsbury’s Supermarkets Limited	37
14	Jaguar Land Rover Limited	35
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All disability discrimination cases

14,981 cases · page 287 of 300 · chronological

Case ref.	Decided	Claimant	Primary respondent	Jurisdiction	Total award
4122039/2018	26 February 2019	EMPLOYMENT TRIBUNALS (SCOTLAND) Case No: 4122039/2018 Ms S Fleming	J D Wetherspoon plc	Scotland	—
4120810/2018	26 February 2019	EMPLOYMENT TRIBUNALS (SCOTLAND) Case No: 4120810/2018 Mrs M Cassidy	Stellar Europe Limited	Scotland	—
4122532/2018	25 February 2019	EMPLOYMENT TRIBUNALS (SCOTLAND) Case No: 4122532/2018 Miss A Clark-Dick	X LimitedGroup nd	Scotland	—
4101673/2017	25 February 2019	ETZ 4(WR) IN THE EMPLOYMENT TRIBUNALS (SCOTLAND) Judgment of the Employment Tribunal in Case No: S/4101673/2017 Issued Following Open Preliminary Hearing Held at Edinburgh on th December 2018 Employment Judge: J G d’Inverno, QVRM, TD, VR, WS (Sitting Alone)10 Ms Kristina Simonsen	Represented by Mr K Sinclair, Lay Representative TNT UK Limited	Scotland	—
4101486/2019	23 February 2019	EMPLOYMENT TRIBUNALS (SCOTLAND) Case No: 4101486/2019 Mr D McDonald	Nicola Sheera	Scotland	—
2601766/2018	22 February 2019	Mr L Zmuda	Office Depot International (UK) Limited	England & Wales	—

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.