Disability discrimination compensation & tribunal success rate — UK data (page 296) | Tribunal Watch
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Disability discrimination employment tribunal cases — UK data 2017–present
Tribunal Watch has indexed 14,762 UK employment tribunal cases involving disability discrimination claims, published on gov.uk since 2017. Where compensation was recorded, the median award was £7,500 (the largest £269,114) across 908 cases. Tribunals upheld 23% of the 8,248 decided disability discrimination claims. These cases name 10,869 distinct employers as respondents.
Total cases
14,762
Median award
£7,500
Claims upheld
23%
Largest single award
£269,114
Distinct employers
10,869
England & Wales
13,438
Scotland
1,324
Compensation in disability discrimination cases
908 cases with a recorded award
Median
£7,500
Mean
£15,063
25th percentile
£1,850
75th percentile
£18,466
90th percentile
£36,002
Largest
£269,114
Figures are the total award recorded across cases that include a disability discrimination claim and a published remedy — 908 of 14,762 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
12,460 adjudicated claims
Outcome
Claims
Share
Dismissed
6,366
51%
Upheld
1,882
15%
Other
1,478
12%
Withdrawn
1,425
11%
Struck out
1,280
10%
Settled
29
0%
Counting only claims a tribunal decided on the merits (upheld or dismissed), 23% of disability discrimination claims were upheld — 1,882 of 8,248. Settled and withdrawn claims are excluded from that rate. Outcomes are recorded per claim, so a judgment can uphold one claim and dismiss another.
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.