Sex discrimination compensation & tribunal success rate — UK data (page 139) | Tribunal Watch
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Sex discrimination employment tribunal cases — UK data 2017–present
Tribunal Watch has indexed 6,914 UK employment tribunal cases involving sex discrimination claims, published on gov.uk since 2017. Where compensation was recorded, the median award was £7,371 (the largest £1,009,832) across 576 cases. Tribunals upheld 17% of the 1,712 decided sex discrimination claims. These cases name 6,231 distinct employers as respondents.
Total cases
6,914
Median award
£7,371
Claims upheld
17%
Largest single award
£1,009,832
Distinct employers
6,231
England & Wales
6,340
Scotland
574
Compensation in sex discrimination cases
576 cases with a recorded award
Median
£7,371
Mean
£17,454
25th percentile
£1,719
75th percentile
£19,300
90th percentile
£37,741
Largest
£1,009,832
Figures are the total award recorded across cases that include a sex discrimination claim and a published remedy — 576 of 6,914 sex 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 sex discrimination claims
3,077 adjudicated claims
Outcome
Claims
Share
Dismissed
1,417
46%
Withdrawn
565
18%
Struck out
464
15%
Other
324
11%
Upheld
295
10%
Settled
12
0%
Counting only claims a tribunal decided on the merits (upheld or dismissed), 17% of sex discrimination claims were upheld — 295 of 1,712. Settled and withdrawn claims are excluded from that rate. Outcomes are recorded per claim, so a judgment can uphold one claim and dismiss another.
EMPLOYMENT TRIBUNALS (SCOTLAND) Case No: 4112622/2015 Mrs C Hynes
Methodology
Cases on this page are identified by first-pass extraction against the locked §4.4 claim-type taxonomy — a judgment enters the sex discrimination caseload if sex 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.