Religion or belief discrimination compensation & tribunal success rate — UK data | Tribunal Watch
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Religion or belief discrimination employment tribunal cases — UK data 2017–present
Tribunal Watch has indexed 1,784 UK employment tribunal cases involving religion or belief discrimination claims, published on gov.uk since 2017. Where compensation was recorded, the median award was £3,380 (the largest £3,449,329) across 94 cases. Tribunals upheld 7% of the 597 decided religion or belief discrimination claims. These cases name 1,690 distinct employers as respondents.
Total cases
1,784
Median award
£3,380
Claims upheld
7%
Largest single award
£3,449,329
Distinct employers
1,690
England & Wales
1,694
Scotland
90
Compensation in religion or belief discrimination cases
94 cases with a recorded award
Median
£3,380
Mean
£53,021
25th percentile
£1,232
75th percentile
£14,979
90th percentile
£38,176
Largest
£3,449,329
Figures are the total award recorded across cases that include a religion or belief discrimination claim and a published remedy — 94 of 1,784 religion or belief 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 religion or belief discrimination claims
1,117 adjudicated claims
Outcome
Claims
Share
Dismissed
553
50%
Struck out
231
21%
Withdrawn
165
15%
Other
123
11%
Upheld
44
4%
Settled
1
0%
Counting only claims a tribunal decided on the merits (upheld or dismissed), 7% of religion or belief discrimination claims were upheld — 44 of 597. Settled and withdrawn claims are excluded from that rate.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 religion or belief discrimination caseload if religion or belief 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.