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

Across 563 UK race discrimination tribunal cases with a recorded remedy since 2017, the median total award was £3,526 and the largest was £3,449,329.

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

Of 3,074 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 8,096 UK employment tribunal cases involving race discrimination claims, published on gov.uk since 2017. Where compensation was recorded, the median award was £3,526 (the largest £3,449,329) across 563 cases. Tribunals upheld 8% of the 3,074 decided race discrimination claims. These cases name 6,735 distinct employers as respondents.

Total cases: 8,096
Median award: £3,526
Claims upheld: 8%
Largest single award: £3,449,329
Distinct employers: 6,735
England & Wales: 7,705
Scotland: 391

Compensation in race discrimination cases

563 cases with a recorded award

Median: £3,526
Mean: £16,525
25th percentile: £986
75th percentile: £10,930
90th percentile: £24,998
Largest: £3,449,329

Figures are the total award recorded across cases that include a race discrimination claim and a published remedy — 563 of 8,096 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

5,283 adjudicated claims

Outcome	Claims	Share
Dismissed	2,827	54%
Struck out	942	18%
Other	651	12%
Withdrawn	609	12%
Upheld	247	5%
Settled	7	0%

Counting only claims a tribunal decided on the merits (upheld or dismissed), 8% of race discrimination claims were upheld — 247 of 3,074. Settled and withdrawn claims are excluded from that rate.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	1,448
2021	996
2022	1,117
2023	1,087
2024	979
2025	864
2026	267

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	61
02	Tesco Stores Ltd	57
03	The Secretary of State for Justice	47
04	Amazon UK Services Limited	31
05	Ministry of Defence	31
06	Asda Stores Limited	29
07	Home Office	25
08	Mitie Limited	25
09	London Underground Limited	22
10	Department for Work and Pensions	21
11	The Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis	21
12	Network Rail Infrastructure Limited	18
13	Serco Limited	17
14	DHL Services Limited	16
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All race discrimination cases

8,096 cases · page 160 of 162 · chronological

Case ref.	Decided	Claimant	Primary respondent	Jurisdiction	Total award
2303465/2017	22 May 2018	Mr P Stanislas, Counsel For the	—	England & Wales	—
2301124/2017	22 May 2018	Mr Esase Awazou	Abellio London Limited	England & Wales	—
4102617/2018	21 May 2018	EMPLOYMENT TRIBUNALS (SCOTLAND) Case No: S/4102617/2018 Held in Glasgow on May 2018 Employment Judge: lain F. Atack Kamaljeet Singh Advocate General for Scotlandas representing the Ministry of Defence	Represented by: In Person	Scotland	—
1805563/2018	18 May 2018	Mr Christopher Adams	Royal Mail Group Limited	England & Wales	£2,053
3101768/2012	16 May 2018	Dr Vivienne Jean Lyfar-Cisse First	Brighton & Sussex University Hospitals NHS Trust Second Respondent Mr Graham White	England & Wales	£7,363
4102995/2018	14 May 2018	(sitting alone) Mr G A Reid Tesco Stores Limited	Represented by: In Person	Scotland	—
2205760/2018	14 May 2018	In person For the	—	England & Wales	—

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.