How much compensation do religion or belief discrimination claims award at an employment tribunal?

Across 95 UK religion or belief discrimination tribunal cases with a recorded remedy since 2017, the median total award was £3,513 and the largest was £3,449,329.

What percentage of religion or belief discrimination claims succeed at an employment tribunal?

Of 609 religion or belief discrimination claims decided on the merits by UK tribunals, 7% were upheld.

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Religion or belief discrimination compensation & tribunal success rate — UK data (page 34) | Tribunal Watch

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Religion or belief discrimination employment tribunal cases — UK data 2017–present

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

Tribunal Watch has indexed 1,806 UK employment tribunal cases involving religion or belief discrimination claims, published on gov.uk since 2017. Where compensation was recorded, the median award was £3,513 (the largest £3,449,329) across 95 cases. Tribunals upheld 7% of the 609 decided religion or belief discrimination claims. These cases name 1,710 distinct employers as respondents.

Total cases: 1,806
Median award: £3,513
Claims upheld: 7%
Largest single award: £3,449,329
Distinct employers: 1,710
England & Wales: 1,711
Scotland: 95

Compensation in religion or belief discrimination cases

95 cases with a recorded award

Median: £3,513
Mean: £53,029
25th percentile: £1,255
75th percentile: £15,858
90th percentile: £39,496
Largest: £3,449,329

Figures are the total award recorded across cases that include a religion or belief discrimination claim and a published remedy — 95 of 1,806 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

1,137 adjudicated claims

Outcome	Claims	Share
Dismissed	564	50%
Struck out	234	21%
Withdrawn	166	15%
Other	127	11%
Upheld	45	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 — 45 of 609. Settled and withdrawn claims are excluded from that rate. Outcomes are recorded per claim, so a judgment can uphold one claim and dismiss another.

Religion or belief discrimination cases per year

2017–2026

Year	Cases	Trend
2017	18
2018	47
2019	216
2020	310
2021	205
2022	242
2023	269
2024	239
2025	179
2026	81

Largest religion or belief 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
2202063/2014	8 November 2019	Mr M Epstein For	Government of the State of Qatar	£388,920
2203888/2020	11 March 2022	Ms L Bone (Counsel) For the	—	£200,000
2202255/2019	17 October 2020	Mrs A S Koffi	Permanent	£101,853
3311160/2023	5 September 2024	Ms Elizabeth Pitt	Cambridgeshire County Council	£55,910
3303470/2022	29 April 2026	CX	The Secretary of State for Justice	£53,783
2204365/2021	24 October 2023	Mr C Wilkinson 1st	Areaworks Group Limited (in voluntary liquidation). 2nd Respondent: Mr L Ramsden 3rd Respondent: Mr P Lawrence London Central: in person on 9-13 October 2023	£50,412
2207626/2022	7 March 2024	Mr M Todd, counsel For the

Top employers — religion or belief discrimination cases

20 ranked by case count

#	Employer	Cases
01	Royal Mail Group Limited	15
02	The Secretary of State for Justice	14
03	Ministry of Defence	9
04	Department for Work and Pensions	8
05	Tesco Stores Ltd	8
06	DHL Services Limited	7
07	Asda Stores Limited	6
08	Mitie Limited	6
09	London Borough of Newham	5
10	London Borough of Tower Hamlets	5
11	Network Rail Infrastructure Limited	5
12	The Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis	5
13	The Commissioners for Her Majesty’s Revenue and Customs	5
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All religion or belief discrimination cases

1,806 cases · page 34 of 37 · chronological

Case ref.	Decided	Claimant	Primary respondent	Jurisdiction	Total award
2207392/2017	23 August 2019	Ms C Poyser	The Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis	England & Wales	—
2208012/2017	23 August 2019	Ms I Petrescu (1) Mr P Ndongu (2)	The Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis	England & Wales	£2,000
2201371/2015	20 August 2019	Mrs A A Balakumar	Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust Respondents to the wasted costs applicati	England & Wales	£7,500
2205178/2018	16 August 2019	Mrs. K. Newbould	The Commissioner of Police for the Metropolis	England & Wales	—
2416565/2019	15 August 2019	Mrs L Baroudi Abdullah	University of Manchester	England & Wales	—
2405695/2019	15 August 2019	Mrs L Baroudi	University of Manchester	England & Wales	—
1305478/2018	14 August 2019	Mrs Z Aslam	Walsall Healthcare NHS Trust & Ms AK Basra

Methodology

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.