Pregnancy and maternity discrimination compensation & tribunal success rate — UK data (page 31) | Tribunal Watch
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Pregnancy and maternity discrimination employment tribunal cases — UK data 2017–present
Tribunal Watch has indexed 1,533 UK employment tribunal cases involving pregnancy and maternity discrimination claims, published on gov.uk since 2017. Where compensation was recorded, the median award was £10,877 (the largest £150,587) across 275 cases. Tribunals upheld 48% of the 895 decided pregnancy and maternity discrimination claims. These cases name 1,586 distinct employers as respondents.
Total cases
1,533
Median award
£10,877
Claims upheld
48%
Largest single award
£150,587
Distinct employers
1,586
England & Wales
1,428
Scotland
105
Compensation in pregnancy and maternity discrimination cases
275 cases with a recorded award
Median
£10,877
Mean
£15,320
25th percentile
£3,512
75th percentile
£21,942
90th percentile
£35,098
Largest
£150,587
Figures are the total award recorded across cases that include a pregnancy and maternity discrimination claim and a published remedy — 275 of 1,533 pregnancy and maternity 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 pregnancy and maternity discrimination claims
1,148 adjudicated claims
Outcome
Claims
Share
Dismissed
466
41%
Upheld
429
37%
Withdrawn
98
9%
Other
91
8%
Struck out
60
5%
Settled
4
0%
Counting only claims a tribunal decided on the merits (upheld or dismissed), 48% of pregnancy and maternity discrimination claims were upheld — 429 of 895. Settled and withdrawn claims are excluded from that rate. Outcomes are recorded per claim, so a judgment can uphold one claim and dismiss another.
Pregnancy and maternity discrimination cases per year
2017–2026
Year
Cases
Trend
2017
18
2018
46
2019
307
2020
368
2021
173
2022
165
2023
168
2024
124
2025
102
2026
62
Largest pregnancy and maternity discrimination awards
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.