Race discrimination compensation & tribunal success rate — UK data (page 167) | Tribunal Watch
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Race discrimination employment tribunal cases — UK data 2017–present
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Withdrawn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 Settled and withdrawn claims are excluded from that rate.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.
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.