How much compensation do race discrimination claims award at an employment tribunal?

Across 574 UK race discrimination tribunal cases with a recorded remedy since 2017, the median total award was £3,516 and the largest was £3,449,329.

What percentage of race discrimination claims succeed at an employment tribunal?

Of 3,155 race discrimination claims decided on the merits by UK tribunals, 8% were upheld.

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Race discrimination compensation & tribunal success rate — UK data (page 160) | Tribunal Watch

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Race discrimination employment tribunal cases — UK data 2017–present

Name: Race discrimination UK employment tribunal statistics
Creator: Tribunal Watch
License: https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/

Tribunal Watch has indexed 8,306 UK employment tribunal cases involving race discrimination claims, published on gov.uk since 2017. Where compensation was recorded, the median award was £3,516 (the largest £3,449,329) across 574 cases. Tribunals upheld 8% of the 3,155 decided race discrimination claims. These cases name 6,967 distinct employers as respondents.

Total cases: 8,306
Median award: £3,516
Claims upheld: 8%
Largest single award: £3,449,329
Distinct employers: 6,967
England & Wales: 7,896
Scotland: 410

Compensation in race discrimination cases

574 cases with a recorded award

Median: £3,516
Mean: £16,375
25th percentile: £1,000
75th percentile: £11,041
90th percentile: £24,996
Largest: £3,449,329

Figures are the total award recorded across cases that include a race discrimination claim and a published remedy — 574 of 8,306 race 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 race discrimination claims

5,411 adjudicated claims

Outcome	Claims	Share
Dismissed	2,902	54%
Struck out	960	18%
Other	673	12%
Withdrawn	616	11%
Upheld	253	5%
Settled	7	0%

Counting only claims a tribunal decided on the merits (upheld or dismissed), 8% of race discrimination claims were upheld — 253 of 3,155. Settled and withdrawn claims are excluded from that rate. Outcomes are recorded per claim, so a judgment can uphold one claim and dismiss another.

Race discrimination cases per year

2017–2026

Year	Cases	Trend
2017	89
2018	189
2019	1,060
2020	1,447
2021	997
2022	1,116
2023	1,087
2024	980
2025	872
2026	469

Largest race discrimination awards

Top 8 by total award

Case ref.	Decided	Claimant	Primary respondent	Total award
1404855/2018	5 June 2019	In person For the	University of Southampton	£3,449,329
3304188/2022	28 July 2023	Cyril Gregory	Petro Trace Limited	£340,213
1600183/2021	27 November 2020	Ms Peak Ong	Aberystwyth University	£264,442
2203888/2020	11 March 2022	Ms L Bone (Counsel) For the	—	£200,000
1600522/2019	13 June 2019	(1) Mr M Narzoles (2) Mr R Pajimolin (3) Mr B Tabang	Voltcom Ltd (In Administration)	£127,064
2200149/2020	5 May 2019	Mr D Bendall	The Female Social Network Ltd (In Voluntary Liquidation)	£97,317
3202513/2020	12 September 2023	Ms U. Jama	Barking Havering & Redbridge University Hospital NHS Trust	£88,196
2204786/2022	8 September 2023	Mrs I Parkes	Vigilant Security (Scotland) Ltd t/a Croma Vigilant	£84,083

Top employers — race discrimination cases

20 ranked by case count

#	Employer	Cases
01	Royal Mail Group Limited	62
02	Tesco Stores Ltd	58
03	The Secretary of State for Justice	49
04	Amazon UK Services Limited	32
05	Ministry of Defence	31
06	Asda Stores Limited	30
07	Mitie Limited	27
08	Home Office	26
09	The Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis	24
10	Department for Work and Pensions	23
11	London Underground Limited	22
12	Network Rail Infrastructure Limited	19
13	DHL Services Limited	17
14	Serco Limited	17
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All race discrimination cases

8,306 cases · page 160 of 167 · chronological

Case ref.	Decided	Claimant	Primary respondent	Jurisdiction	Total award
1300971/2018	1 March 2019	Miss U Sharma	HSBC Bank plc PRELIMINARY HEARING	England & Wales	—
2303345/2018	1 March 2019	In Person	—	England & Wales	—
1301801/2018	1 March 2019	Ms N Hayes	Coventry City Council	England & Wales	—
4118365/2018	27 February 2019	EMPLOYMENT TRIBUNALS (SCOTLAND) Case No: 4118365/2018 Mrs L Povilaitiene	Nolan Seafood (UK) Limited	Scotland	—
1810867/2018	27 February 2019	Mr L Morton-Buwerimwe	Plusnet plc	England & Wales	—
1806134/2018	27 February 2019	Mr A Wanis	Royal Mail Group Limited	England & Wales	—
3331220/2018	27 February 2019	Mr M. Zaib	Capita Group/Tascor E and D Services Ltd	England & Wales	—
2401718/2019	27 February 2019	Miss M Wilks	Ocean Dental Limited

Methodology

Cases on this page are identified by first-pass extraction against the locked §4.4 claim-type taxonomy — a judgment enters the race discrimination caseload if race 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.