Sex discrimination employment tribunal cases — UK data 2017–present
Tribunal Watch has indexed 7,003 UK employment tribunal cases involving sex discrimination claims, published on gov.uk since 2017. Where compensation was recorded, the median award was £7,444 (the largest £1,009,832) across 586 cases. Tribunals upheld 17% of the 1,733 decided sex discrimination claims. These cases name 6,314 distinct employers as respondents.
Total cases
7,003
Median award
£7,444
Claims upheld
17%
Largest single award
£1,009,832
Distinct employers
6,314
England & Wales
6,419
Scotland
584
Compensation in sex discrimination cases
586 cases with a recorded award
Median
£7,444
Mean
£17,547
25th percentile
£1,717
75th percentile
£19,581
90th percentile
£38,148
Largest
£1,009,832
Figures are the total award recorded across cases that include a sex discrimination claim and a published remedy — 586 of 7,003 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
3,106 adjudicated claims
Outcome
Claims
Share
Dismissed
1,435
46%
Withdrawn
567
18%
Struck out
467
15%
Other
327
11%
Upheld
298
10%
Settled
12
0%
Counting only claims a tribunal decided on the merits (upheld or dismissed), 17% of sex discrimination claims were upheld — 298 of 1,733. Settled and withdrawn claims are excluded from that rate.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 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.