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| Withdrawn | 101 | 9% |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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1600472/2020 | 27 April 2020 | Mrs L Humphrey | Hermes Parcelnet Limited | England & Wales | — |
| 3202357/2018 | 27 April 2020 | Mrs J Tunstall | Blue Co London LLP (In Administration) | England & Wales | — |
| 3306651/2019 | 27 April 2020 | Ms S Thomson | In Synch Group | England & Wales | — |
| 2200266/2019 | 23 April 2020 | Mrs A Menezes | Ecclesiastical Insurance | England & Wales | — |
| 1403377/2019 | 23 April 2020 | Mrs E Whitney | Hurricane Media UK Limited | England & Wales | — |
| 2601204/2019 | 20 April 2020 | Miss L Bullimore | Graeme Carnegie t/a Miss Poppy's Coffee Shop | England & Wales | — |
| 1405078/2019 | 20 April 2020 | Ms Z Young | Sitel UK Ltd | England & Wales | — |
| 2201106/2019 | 17 April 2020 | Miss B Cao | English National Ballet |
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 |
| — |
| 3202540/2018 | 17 April 2020 | Miss J Hunter | Essex County Council | England & Wales | — |
| 2206984/2018 | 16 April 2020 | Mr P Jiang | Nomura International plc | England & Wales | — |
| 2304383/2019 | 16 April 2020 | Ms D Kilner | The Whitgift Foundation | England & Wales | — |
| 2206838/2018 | 16 April 2020 | Mrs A Grigorian | Equiti Capital UK Limited (the Second Respondent / R2) | England & Wales | — |
| 1404319/2019 | 16 April 2020 | Ms Khatun in person (Mohammed Patel observing as support) For the | Mr M Lennon, Trainee Solicitor | England & Wales | — |
| 2206188/2018 | 15 April 2020 | Ms P Dunlop | Norman Broadbent Executive Search Ltd | England & Wales | — |
| 1801331/2020 | 15 April 2020 | Miss S Maynard | Leeds Beckett University | England & Wales | — |
| 3200615/2020 | 14 April 2020 | Mrs J McPherson | Citibank NA | England & Wales | — |
| 1300490/2019 | 9 April 2020 | Miss J Gordon | The Home Office CASE MANAGEMENT PRELIMINARY HEARING | England & Wales | — |
| 2202818/2019 | 8 April 2020 | Mrs F Ellis | IDH Media | England & Wales | — |
| 1300051/2020 | 8 April 2020 | Mr S Surdo | Dean Wilson | England & Wales | — |
| 3331440/2018 | 7 April 2020 | Miss R Millard | PMP Recruitment Limited (in administration) | England & Wales | — |
| 1805254/2019 | 7 April 2020 | In Person | — | England & Wales | £2,102 |
| 2301915/2019 | 6 April 2020 | Mrs J Miller | Bluebird Care Ltd | England & Wales | — |
| 1602098/2019 | 6 April 2020 | Miss E Lancaster | Northop Management Services Limited | England & Wales | — |
| 2413869/2019 | 3 April 2020 | Mrs A Platt | Brookson Limited | England & Wales | — |
| 1404542/2019 | 1 April 2020 | Mr M Flores | Premier Coffee Ltd | England & Wales | — |
| 2405194/2019 | 1 April 2020 | Miss S Jackson | Sky Wheels Group Limited | England & Wales | — |
| 2602254/2019 | 1 April 2020 | Miss E Wadsworth | Pendragon plc | England & Wales | — |
| 2205199/2019 | 1 April 2020 | Mrs A. Thompson | Scancrown Ltd, trading as Manors London Central Remote Hearing (CVP) | England & Wales | — |
| 1602042/2019 | 31 March 2020 | Ms P Szmagaj | Dawson Shanahan (Wales) Ltd | England & Wales | — |
| 3201335/2019 | 30 March 2020 | Ms J Fearon | Barclays Bank UK plc | England & Wales | — |
| 1303621/2019 | 30 March 2020 | Ms L Akther | Crawford & Company Adjusters (UK) Limited | England & Wales | — |
| 2600080/2020 | 27 March 2020 | Miss R Wood | Sainsbury’s Supermarkets Limited | England & Wales | — |
| 1801434/2020 | 25 March 2020 | Ms S Akhtar | Bradford College | England & Wales | — |
| 2603643/2019 | 23 March 2020 | Miss K Mann | Boots Management Services Ltd | England & Wales | — |
| 1402360/2019 | 23 March 2020 | Miss M Reed | Lockrite Locksmiths Ltd | England & Wales | — |
| 2603269/2019 | 23 March 2020 | Mrs S Yates | Utopia Tableware Ltd | England & Wales | — |
| 1803692/2019 | 20 March 2020 | In person | Mrs Ogbonson, owner | England & Wales | £2,861 |
| 2300032/2019 | 19 March 2020 | Miss H Strathearn | Nuffield Health | England & Wales | — |
| 2410290/2019 | 18 March 2020 | Mrs L Ryder | Manchester Metropolitan University | England & Wales | — |
| 3301926/2020 | 18 March 2020 | Miss P Inwood | Greene King Pub Partners | England & Wales | — |
| 1600465/2018 | 17 March 2020 | (1) Ms R Halliwell (2) Ms M Rowlands | Gekko UK Ltd | England & Wales | — |
| 3301796/2019 | 17 March 2020 | Miss J | Euro Car Parts Ltd | England & Wales | — |
| 2404918/2019 | 16 March 2020 | Ms K Troughton | Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust | England & Wales | — |
| 3302003/2020 | 16 March 2020 | Mrs K Burdett | Gartner UK Limited | England & Wales | — |
| 1404058/2019 | 16 March 2020 | Mrs C Bohan | Morgans Group Limited | England & Wales | — |
| 2303498/2019 | 16 March 2020 | Miss S Clarke | Urban Foodservice | England & Wales | — |
| 2401655/2019 | 16 March 2020 | 1. Miss S Harty 2. Mrs L Leonard 3. Mrs D Pieri 4. Mrs S Vince-Cain | Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust | England & Wales | — |
| 2416643/2019 | 14 March 2020 | Mrs J North | Independent Office for Police Conduct | England & Wales | — |
| 2413685/2019 | 14 March 2020 | Miss S Ahmed | Ms Michelle Drew and Mr Ahassan Khan trading as Drake Dental Practice | England & Wales | — |
| 2414478/2019 | 14 March 2020 | Mrs S Hardingham | Majestic Care Northwest Ltd | England & Wales | — |