Claim pillar
Tribunal Watch has indexed 1,546 UK employment tribunal cases involving pregnancy and maternity discrimination claims, published on gov.uk since 2017. Where compensation was recorded, the median award was £10,515 (the largest £150,587) across 278 cases. Tribunals upheld 48% of the 908 decided pregnancy and maternity discrimination claims. These cases name 1,606 distinct employers as respondents.
| Outcome | Claims | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Dismissed | 472 | 40% |
| Upheld | 436 | 37% |
| Withdrawn | 101 | 9% |
| Other | 93 | 8% |
| Struck out | 62 | 5% |
| Settled | 4 | 0% |
| Year | Cases | Trend |
|---|---|---|
| 2017 | 18 | |
| 2018 | 46 | |
| 2019 | 307 | |
| 2020 | 368 | |
| 2021 | 173 | |
| 2022 | 165 | |
| 2023 | 168 | |
| 2024 | 124 | |
| 2025 | 102 | |
| 2026 | 75 |
| Case ref. | Decided | Claimant | Primary respondent | Total award |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1400990/2018 | 24 May 2019 | Ms L Harris - counsel For the | Mr P Jewell - consultant | £150,587 |
| 2212724/2023 | 1 July 2024 | Ms N Maxted | No Ordinary Designer Label Ltd (in Administration) | £102,076 |
| 4109594/2019 | 28 January 2020 | Mrs N Kaminska | Represented by Mr C Moran, Solicitor Your Group Limited | £67,918 |
| 1800249/2022 | 24 October 2022 | Ms Donna Patterson | Wm Morrison Supermarkets Limited | £60,442 |
| 1402354/2020 | 5 October 2021 | — | Dometic UK Ltd | £60,311 |
| 1400940/2021 | 3 March 2023 | Ms Laura Nottola | Atelier Clifton Limited | £59,633 |
| 1807154/2020 | 26 November 2021 | Mrs R Gill Tomaz Mr A E Tinum | Churrasco Ltd | £58,899 |
| 3307426/2023 | 9 May 2024 | Mrs Jacqueline Potter | SMB 2001 Limited (In Liquidation) | £58,632 |
| Case ref. | Decided | Claimant | Primary respondent | Jurisdiction | Total award |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1306773/2019 | 22 June 2020 | Mrs S Mahroof | Mitie Limited | England & Wales | — |
| 2305165/2019 | 20 June 2020 | Ms R Penny | Korker Sausages Ltd and others | England & Wales | — |
| 3200337/2020 | 20 June 2020 | Ms L Enfield | Mirror Group Newspapers Limited | England & Wales | — |
| 2305186/2020 | 20 June 2020 | Mrs. F Jobson | London Borough of Hounslow | England & Wales | — |
| 1306844/2019 | 19 June 2020 | Mrs J Wood | HBOS plc | England & Wales | — |
| 2305004/2020 | 19 June 2020 | Mrs C Boateng | London Borough of Croydon | England & Wales | — |
| 3316144/2019 | 18 June 2020 | Ms U Moore | Gilead Sciences International Limited | England & Wales | — |
| 1300043/2020 | 17 June 2020 | Ms R Mayinga | University Hospitals Birmingham |
Cases on this page are identified by first-pass extraction against the locked §4.4 claim-type taxonomy — a judgment enters the pregnancy and maternity discrimination caseload if pregnancy and maternity 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.
| 16 | Essex County Council | 2 |
| 17 | HBOS plc | 2 |
| 18 | HM Revenue and Customs | 2 |
| 19 | Home Office | 2 |
| 20 | Indemnis Limited | 2 |
| England & Wales |
| — |
| 3301761/2020 | 16 June 2020 | Mrs S Drake | Stantec UK Ltd | England & Wales | — |
| 2305134/2019 | 16 June 2020 | Ms L-J Petherick | 1) London Care Limited 2) Mr Michael Anifowose | England & Wales | — |
| 2600683/2020 | 15 June 2020 | Miss R Fisher | (R1) Montessori (Baby Unit) Limited (R2) Stoneygate Montessori (R3) Montessori (279) Limited | England & Wales | £11,532 |
| 2603469/2019 | 15 June 2020 | Mrs C Obahiagbon | Central Source Limited | England & Wales | — |
| 1801508/2020 | 15 June 2020 | Ms A Jablonska | Systagenix Wound Management Manufacturing Limited | England & Wales | — |
| 3302363/2020 | 15 June 2020 | — | Mott MacDonald Ltd T/a Cambridge Education and London Borough of Barnet | England & Wales | — |
| 2500545/2020 | 12 June 2020 | Ms C Coates | R1 King James I Academy Bishop Auckland Limited R2 Trustees of King James I Academy Bishop Auckland R3 Governing Body of King James I Academy | England & Wales | — |
| 1600895/2019 | 12 June 2020 | Mrs R Evans (C1) Miss R Pridmore (C2) Mr M Walters (C3) | Padda Care Homes Limited | England & Wales | — |
| 1400837/2020 | 9 June 2020 | Mrs J Roberts | Maximus UK Services Ltd | England & Wales | — |
| 1802013/2020 | 9 June 2020 | Miss K Metcalfe | Yorkshire Heart Ltd | England & Wales | £602 |
| 3318789/2019 | 7 June 2020 | — | Oculantim v Finedale Foods Ltd | England & Wales | — |
| 1807572/2019 | 4 June 2020 | Ms J Wilson | Redtronic Limited | England & Wales | — |
| 3320821/2019 | 4 June 2020 | Ms Victoria Louise | Snow Complete Care Services Ltd | England & Wales | — |
| 2601235/2020 | 3 June 2020 | Mrs B Gregory-McCourt | Douglas Gill International Limited | England & Wales | — |
| 4114442/2019 | 3 June 2020 | Mrs F Popescu | Mercure Aberdeen Ardoe House Hotel & Spa | Scotland | — |
| 1308215/2019 | 1 June 2020 | Ms J Borejko | JLC Recruitment And Care Ltd Churchill China UK Limited Churchill China plc | England & Wales | — |
| 3201530/2019 | 29 May 2020 | Mrs C Soar | Hornbeam Academy Trust | England & Wales | — |
| 1600304/2020 | 28 May 2020 | Mrs E Hopkins | Hertz UK Ltd | England & Wales | — |
| 2401245/2020 | 28 May 2020 | Miss S Montgomery | Foldhill Foods Ltd | England & Wales | — |
| 1300826/2019 | 28 May 2020 | Mrs N Bellingham | HIM Group Ltd | England & Wales | — |
| 1406271/2019 | 27 May 2020 | Miss J Messenger | Stickeez Vinyl Graphics Limited | England & Wales | £1,800 |
| 2403946/2020 | 21 May 2020 | Miss G Saxon | Chestnut House Healthcare Group | England & Wales | — |
| 2200499/2020 | 19 May 2020 | Mrs L Nicoll | Alpha Development Partnership Ltd | England & Wales | — |
| 2202486/2019 | 18 May 2020 | Miss S Lumb | IGR London Ltd | England & Wales | — |
| 1403367/2019 | 15 May 2020 | Miss J Gillett | Hartwood Healthcare | England & Wales | — |
| 2304398/2019 | 14 May 2020 | Miss I Saxon | Blue Diamond Properties Limited | England & Wales | — |
| 1403524/2019 | 14 May 2020 | Mrs R Newman | HSBC Bank plc | England & Wales | — |
| 2304703/2019 | 13 May 2020 | Ms Roxana Sassu-Nicolae | Otium Quo Limited t/a The Surprise Inn | England & Wales | — |
| 2300478/2020 | 13 May 2020 | Ms A Szcesnowska | Fulston Manor | England & Wales | — |
| 2200026/2020 | 12 May 2020 | Mrs H Oakley | The Trustees of the British Museum | England & Wales | — |
| 3203095/2019 | 12 May 2020 | Miss A Ragsdale | C & J Clark International Limited | England & Wales | — |
| 2400731/2020 | 7 May 2020 | Mrs D McMahon | Blackburn with Darwen Borough Council | England & Wales | — |
| 2410843/2019 | 5 May 2020 | Miss J Bowen | Ideal Energy And Fuels Ltd | England & Wales | — |
| 2301278/2019 | 5 May 2020 | Ms S Hall | Harpercollins Publishers Limited | England & Wales | — |
| 1801577/2020 | 4 May 2020 | Miss S Kaye | Totspot Day Nursery (Shelf) Limited | England & Wales | — |
| 2404928/2019 | 4 May 2020 | Ms R Davies | Crewlink Ireland Limited | England & Wales | — |
| 2301160/2018 | 30 April 2020 | Mrs L Crouch | 1) Kinleigh Limited 2) Duncan Blakelock | England & Wales | — |
| 4123396/2018 | 29 April 2020 | M Kearns Tribunal Members: Mrs J Ward Mr J Burnett Ms A Plunkett | Represented by: Mr S Smith Solicitor Auchinbee Care Limited | Scotland | £1,344 |
| 2602707/2018 | 29 April 2020 | Mrs D White | PKA Legal Ltd | England & Wales | — |
| 2203012/2019 | 29 April 2020 | Mr Molnar | S B R Trading Ltd | England & Wales | — |
| 2501632/2019 | 29 April 2020 | Ms A Czarkowska-Agbaso | North East Ambulance Service NHS Foundation Trust | England & Wales | — |
| 2400091/2020 | 28 April 2020 | Miss A Buxton | Premier Care Ltd | England & Wales | — |