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

Across 96 UK religion or belief discrimination tribunal cases with a recorded remedy since 2017, the median total award was £3,631 and the largest was £3,449,329.

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

Of 618 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 35) | 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 1,841 UK employment tribunal cases involving religion or belief discrimination claims, published on gov.uk since 2017. Where compensation was recorded, the median award was £3,631 (the largest £3,449,329) across 96 cases. Tribunals upheld 7% of the 618 decided religion or belief discrimination claims. These cases name 1,744 distinct employers as respondents.

Total cases: 1,841
Median award: £3,631
Claims upheld: 7%
Largest single award: £3,449,329
Distinct employers: 1,744
England & Wales: 1,743
Scotland: 98

Compensation in religion or belief discrimination cases

96 cases with a recorded award

Median: £3,631
Mean: £52,528
25th percentile: £1,279
75th percentile: £15,555
90th percentile: £39,359
Largest: £3,449,329

Figures are the total award recorded across cases that include a religion or belief discrimination claim and a published remedy — 96 of 1,841 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

1,150 adjudicated claims

Outcome	Claims	Share
Dismissed	573	50%
Struck out	234	20%
Withdrawn	167	15%
Other	130	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 618. 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	181
2026	114

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	Department for Work and Pensions	9
04	Ministry of Defence	9
05	Tesco Stores Ltd	8
06	Asda Stores Limited	7
07	DHL Services Limited	7
08	Mitie Limited	6
09	Home Office	5
10	London Borough of Newham	5
11	London Borough of Tower Hamlets	5
12	Network Rail Infrastructure Limited	5
13	The Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis	5
14	The Commissioners for Her Majesty’s Revenue and Customs

All religion or belief discrimination cases

1,841 cases · page 35 of 37 · chronological

Case ref.	Decided	Claimant	Primary respondent	Jurisdiction	Total award
3202323/2018	9 August 2019	Ms M Banu	Thurrock Council	England & Wales	—
3201701/2019	5 August 2019	Ms J Young	Brit College Limited	England & Wales	—
2207350/2017	5 August 2019	Ms E Sonyak	The Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis	England & Wales	—
2300607/2018	2 August 2019	Miss S Whitehall	Bedfont Scientific Limited	England & Wales	—
1600545/2019	31 July 2019	Mr M Shamim	Vic International Marine Services UK Ltd	England & Wales	—
4120668/2018	29 July 2019	: R McPherson A McMillan Mr J Guetta	East Renfrewshire Council	Scotland	—
1800964/2019	25 July 2019	Ms T Afzal	The Chief Constable of West Yorkshire Police	England & Wales	—
3304269/2018	24 July 2019

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.