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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| Withdrawn | 101 | 9% |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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2303627/2018 | 14 October 2018 | Mrs A Farrow | Laing O’Rourke Services Ltd | England & Wales | — |
| 4103017/2018 | 27 September 2018 | Ms S Munro | Represented by: Ms L Madden - Solicitor Town And Country Glasgow Limited | Scotland | — |
| 4106601/2017 | 26 September 2018 | EMPLOYMENT TRIBUNALS (SCOTLAND) Case No: 4106601/2017 Miss L Borkowska | Maxwell Bruce Limited | Scotland | — |
| 2206956/2018 | 18 September 2018 | Mr S Brittenden, counsel For the | — | England & Wales | — |
| 2410479/2018 | 18 September 2018 | Miss N Grant | Hunter Price International Limited & Others | England & Wales | — |
| 1401815/2018 | 12 September 2018 | Mr C Smith | IPSOS Mori UK Ltd | England & Wales | — |
| 1401693/2017 | 12 September 2018 | Mrs L White | Arriva Transport Solutions Limited | England & Wales | — |
| 2301398/2018 |
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 |
| 10 September 2018 |
| In person For the |
| Mr. Parks Solicitor Advocate |
| England & Wales |
| — |
| 2201235/2019 | 13 August 2018 | Mrs H Bhatia-Patel | Palladium International Limited | England & Wales | — |
| 4101694/2017 | 10 August 2018 | J Hendry Members: Mr. A W Bruce Mr. A N Atkinson MS D Fitzpatrick | Represented by:15 Mr. M Briggs Solicitor The Scottish Ministers | Scotland | — |
| 2300785/2018 | 31 May 2018 | Ms Nelder | The Bubb Sherwin Partnership Limited | England & Wales | — |
| 2302420/2017 | 29 May 2018 | Ms A Edwards | Sharnie Williams T/a Sharnie Williams Hair & Beauty | England & Wales | — |
| 4102659/2018 | 9 May 2018 | io | Represented by: Mr D Murray Consultant Miss M Degnan Elizabeth Girvan t/a Merkland Private Nursery | Scotland | £19,648 |
| 2602218/2017 | 1 May 2018 | Miss E Page | I4c Executive Search Limited | England & Wales | — |
| 4102323/2017 | 13 April 2018 | Members: Mr Peter O’Hagan Mr Andrew McFarlane Mrs Amanda Tonner | Represented by: Mr S McCluskey Friend Conroy McInnes Solicitors | Scotland | — |
| 4104785/2017 | 11 April 2018 | Ms K Anderson | — | Scotland | — |
| 2601869/2017 | 29 March 2018 | Ms D Neal | Asda IDC | England & Wales | — |
| 4105546/2017 | 28 March 2018 | (sitting alone) Mrs K Ure | Represented by: Ms J McKinley Strathclyde UniversityLaw Clinic Chemcem Scotland Ltd | Scotland | — |
| 2207126/2017 | 22 March 2018 | Ms E Banton, Counsel For | — | England & Wales | — |
| 2302095/2017 | 22 March 2018 | Ms S Naluwooza | My Mortgage Solution Limited | England & Wales | — |
| 1802065/2017 | 22 March 2018 | Mrs S Gallifant | Sig plc | England & Wales | — |
| 4100805/2017 | 12 March 2018 | Ms Nicola Docherty | The Scottish Ministers | Scotland | — |
| 3400386/2017 | 2 March 2018 | Mrs L Rigney | Larchmont Limited t/a Cunningham Estate Agents | England & Wales | — |
| 3307600/2018 | 1 March 2018 | In person For the | — | England & Wales | — |
| 3328632/2017 | 12 February 2018 | Mr P Swieca (the claimant’s husband) For the | Mr N Carr (solicitor) | England & Wales | — |
| 2301121/2017 | 24 January 2018 | Mrs Z Brandt | Stopgap Limited | England & Wales | — |
| 2420576/2017 | 22 January 2018 | Ms H Stone | LT International Ltd | England & Wales | — |
| 3304638/2018 | 15 January 2018 | Miss S Cousins | The Nannery Ltd | England & Wales | £39,535 |
| 2301802/2017 | 11 December 2017 | Miss K Grobecka | Brighton and Sussex University Hospitals NHS Trust | England & Wales | — |
| 2301477/2017 | 30 November 2017 | Mr G Bains | Willis Towers Watson Limited/Towers Watson Limited | England & Wales | — |
| 2300023/2017 | 15 November 2017 | Ms P Harwood, HR Consultant For the | — | England & Wales | — |
| 2301475/2017 | 8 November 2017 | Ms EL White | Jasvinder Singh Gill | England & Wales | — |
| 4100484/2017 | 5 September 2017 | Sorrell Miss Laura Docherty | — | Scotland | — |
| 2200851/2017 | 21 August 2017 | EMPLOYMENT TRIBUNALS (SCOTLAND) Case No: 2200851/2017 Ms P Paton | Hsp Gas Limited | Scotland | — |
| 4100608/2017 | 21 July 2017 | EMPLOYMENT TRIBUNALS (SCOTLAND) Held at Aberdeen Case No: S/4100608/2017 Mrs J Williamson | Limited (in Liquidation) | Scotland | — |
| 4100204/2017 | 26 June 2017 | 69(scot) claim dismissed on withdrawal rule EMPLOYMENT TRIBUNALS (SCOTLAND) Case Nos: 4100204/2017 Mrs S Spesyvtseva | University of St Andrews | Scotland | — |
| 4107963/2015 | 12 June 2017 | Members: Mrs EA Farrell Mr AB Grant Mrs Joan Newlands | Loans Company Limited | Scotland | — |
| 4105769/2016 | 11 May 2017 | EMPLOYMENT TRIBUNALS (SCOTLAND) Case No: 4105769/2016 Mrs A Morawska | Patisserie Holdings plc | Scotland | — |
| 4100520/2017 | 8 May 2017 | EMPLOYMENT TRIBUNALS (SCOTLAND) Case No: 4100520/2017 Mrs R Young | Aberdeen Asset Managers Limited | Scotland | — |
| 4104559/2016 | 20 April 2017 | N M Hosie Miss J Sinclair | Represented by: Mr R Murdanaigum Solicitor Wood Group PSN Limited | Scotland | — |
| 4102792/2016 | 20 April 2017 | Members: Mr IC MacFarlane Ms N Bakshi Ms Rosalynn Robertson | Represented by: Mr S Healey Solicitor Blue Sky Autism Project | Scotland | £184 |
| 4105702/2016 | 7 April 2017 | EMPLOYMENT TRIBUNALS (SCOTLAND) Case No: 4105702/2016 Ms C Nicoletti | Cunningham Lindsey United Kingdom | Scotland | — |
| 4105084/2016 | 4 April 2017 | EMPLOYMENT TRIBUNALS (SCOTLAND) Case No: 4105084/2016 Mrs R Galloway | Represented by: Ms D Reynolds Quintiles Limited | Scotland | — |
| 4100207/2017 | 31 March 2017 | EMPLOYMENT TRIBUNALS (SCOTLAND) Case No: 4100207/2017 Miss C Brown | Represented by: Ms G Worley Mitie Cleaning & Environmental Services Ltd | Scotland | — |
| 4105208/2016 | 20 March 2017 | EMPLOYMENT TRIBUNALS (SCOTLAND) Case No: 4105208/2016 Mrs K Harrow | Represented by: Mr A Anderson Havelock Europa plc | Scotland | — |
| 4112622/2015 | 3 March 2017 | EMPLOYMENT TRIBUNALS (SCOTLAND) Case No: 4112622/2015 Mrs C Hynes | Raphaelson Holdings Limited Killermont Motor st | Scotland | — |