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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| Withdrawn | 101 | 9% |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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2200950/2019 | 9 September 2019 | Mr S Hughes, Lay Representative For the | — | England & Wales | — |
| 1601024/2018 | 9 September 2019 | Miss R Tallamy | Padda Care Ltd | England & Wales | — |
| 1803726/2019 | 6 September 2019 | Ms S Morris & Ms L Roberts | Marston's plc | England & Wales | — |
| 1801746/2019 | 6 September 2019 | Miss J Siddall | ISS Facility Services Limited | England & Wales | — |
| 1801770/2019 | 6 September 2019 | Mrs E Berry | Batley Multi Academy Trust | England & Wales | — |
| 2207007/2018 | 5 September 2019 | Ms M Gbadamosi | Arcadia Group Ltd | England & Wales | — |
| 3200130/2019 | 5 September 2019 | Miss G Hughes | Anchor Trust | England & Wales | — |
| 2601266/2019 | 5 September 2019 | Miss P Plowman | Pharmacy Services Group Ltd | England & Wales |
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 |
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| 2303100/2018 | 5 September 2019 | Mrs K Fraser | IBM United Kingdom Limited | England & Wales | — |
| 2300971/2018 | 4 September 2019 | Ms K L Gan | Neem Biotech Ltd | England & Wales | — |
| 1803749/2019 | 4 September 2019 | Miss N Webster | Kirsty McGowan | England & Wales | — |
| 2406162/2019 | 3 September 2019 | Miss K Watson | Adam Bladen | England & Wales | — |
| 1600970/2018 | 3 September 2019 | Miss A O'Rourke | HMBS Group Ltd | England & Wales | — |
| 2303276/2018 | 3 September 2019 | Miss K Friar | John Ciaran Murphy | England & Wales | — |
| 2500500/2019 | 2 September 2019 | Miss C Longstaff | Core Cover Ltd | England & Wales | £5,233 |
| 2302830/2018 | 2 September 2019 | Mrs R Kirkaite-Skrebe | Digilight Photo | England & Wales | — |
| 2304123/2017 | 2 September 2019 | Miss K Jedrzejowska | Sample Logistics Ltd | England & Wales | — |
| 3200850/2019 | 31 August 2019 | Mrs S Larwood | New Hall School Trust | England & Wales | — |
| 2206468/2018 | 30 August 2019 | Mrs M Thomas | Altana Wealth Limited | England & Wales | — |
| 2503402/2018 | 29 August 2019 | Mrs S Little | AG Wade Limited | England & Wales | — |
| 1601696/2019 | 29 August 2019 | Mrs K Hopkins | Welsh Ambulance Services NHS Trust | England & Wales | — |
| 1810517/2018 | 28 August 2019 | Miss M Shaw | Cornerstone Care Management Limited | England & Wales | — |
| 4102927/2019 | 28 August 2019 | ETZ 4(WR) EMPLOYMENT TRIBUNALS (SCOTLAND) Case No: 4102927/2019 Hearing at Edinburgh on July 2019 Employment Judge: M A Macleod Tribunal Member: A Mathieson Tribunal Member: J Auld Miss E Spiers | Sherien Ahmed | Scotland | £4,804 |
| 1305646/2018 | 28 August 2019 | Mrs M Czerwinska | Mr A Mohamed | England & Wales | £5,560 |
| 3318743/2019 | 25 August 2019 | Mrs M Amrah | IW Group Services (UK) Limited | England & Wales | — |
| 1800303/2019 | 23 August 2019 | Mrs L Kawecka | R & D 2 Pizza Limited | England & Wales | — |
| 1801724/2019 | 23 August 2019 | Mrs A Mushtaq | Dr Waheed Hussain t/a Clarendon Medical Centre | England & Wales | £500 |
| 2404760/2019 | 23 August 2019 | Miss M Chapman | Kushwant Singh-Raud t/a The E-Cig Store | England & Wales | £18,508 |
| 3201381/2019 | 22 August 2019 | Miss S Di Pietro | The Royal Bank Of Scotland Group plc | England & Wales | — |
| 3334885/2018 | 22 August 2019 | Miss A Plewa | Homefield Grange Retreat Limited | England & Wales | — |
| 2501948/2019 | 22 August 2019 | Miss L Johnson First | TASK (Metro) Limited Second Respondent: KATS (Stockton) Limited Third Respondent: Lounge (MBR) Limited | England & Wales | — |
| 2206298/2018 | 22 August 2019 | Ms EJ Rodican-Jones | DLA Piper UK LLP | England & Wales | — |
| 3318823/2019 | 21 August 2019 | Ms L Irvine | Vrp | England & Wales | £3,876 |
| 2201371/2015 | 20 August 2019 | Mrs A A Balakumar | Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust Respondents to the wasted costs applicati | England & Wales | £7,500 |
| 2501747/2017 | 20 August 2019 | Miss D Watson | Northumberland Tyne and Wear NHS Foundation Trust | England & Wales | — |
| 2600188/2017 | 20 August 2019 | Mrs TE Herbert | York House Limited (formerly in Administration, now dissolved) | England & Wales | — |
| 2600083/2018 | 19 August 2019 | Miss Z Abdulla | NKT Consultancy Limited | England & Wales | — |
| 1803564/2019 | 19 August 2019 | In person | — | England & Wales | — |
| 2423528/2017 | 19 August 2019 | Joanne Haider | Cloud Social Media Ltd | England & Wales | £26,220 |
| 1600593/2018 | 19 August 2019 | Miss C Shead | Taylor's Etc Design Ltd (In Voluntary Liquidation) | England & Wales | — |
| 3314334/2019 | 17 August 2019 | Mrs L Doherty | OH Parsons LLP | England & Wales | — |
| 1600558/2018 | 17 August 2019 | IN PERSON FOR THE | Mr Clarke (litigation Consultant) | England & Wales | £3,927 |
| 1301924/2019 | 16 August 2019 | Mrs. C Stewart | Coventry University | England & Wales | — |
| 4123321/2018 | 16 August 2019 | 69(scot) claim dismissed on withdrawal rule EMPLOYMENT TRIBUNALS (SCOTLAND) Case No 4123321/2018 Ms M Nikelova | Services Limited | Scotland | — |
| 2401980/2019 | 15 August 2019 | Mr C Wyer | Razor Sharp Tree Services Ltd | England & Wales | — |
| 1803468/2019 | 15 August 2019 | Mrs R Reay | Screen Yorkshire Limited | England & Wales | — |
| 2404612/2019 | 14 August 2019 | Mrs C King | Hss Hire Service Group Limited | England & Wales | — |
| 1401891/2019 | 13 August 2019 | Mrs S Byrne | Jasper Vincent Solicitors & Others | England & Wales | — |
| 2402128/2019 | 13 August 2019 | Miss H Din | Arcadia Group Ltd trading as Topshop | England & Wales | — |
| 3307502/2018 | 12 August 2019 | Ms R Trehy | Hobdays Estates Ltd | England & Wales | — |