How much compensation do sex discrimination claims award at an employment tribunal?

Across 576 UK sex discrimination tribunal cases with a recorded remedy since 2017, the median total award was £7,371 and the largest was £1,009,832.

What percentage of sex discrimination claims succeed at an employment tribunal?

Of 1,712 sex discrimination claims decided on the merits by UK tribunals, 17% were upheld.

How many UK sex discrimination employment tribunal cases are there?

Tribunal Watch has indexed 6,914 sex discrimination employment tribunal judgments published on gov.uk since 2017.

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Sex discrimination employment tribunal cases — UK data 2017–present

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

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Withdrawn	565	18%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 Settled and withdrawn claims are excluded from that rate.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.

Sex discrimination cases per year

2017–2026

Year	Cases	Trend
2017	92
2018	206
2019	1,165
2020	1,536
2021	698
2022	752
2023	758
2024	649
2025	705
2026	353

Largest sex discrimination awards

Top 8 by total award

Case ref.	Decided	Claimant	Primary respondent	Total award
2302179/2017	17 June 2022	Mr C Crow (Counsel) For the	—	£1,009,832
2202063/2014	8 November 2019	Mr M Epstein For	Government of the State of Qatar	£388,920
1803164/2021	14 September 2022	Ms E Tahir	National Grid UK Limited Heard: 2- 4 May 2023 Deliberations 26 May 2023	£357,004
1801339/2017	9 May 2018	Miss S J Austin	Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust	£269,114
3303448/2019	25 March 2021	Scott Neto	Key People Limited	£217,039
2212724/2023	1 July 2024	Ms N Maxted	No Ordinary Designer Label Ltd (in Administration)	£102,076
2202255/2019	17 October 2020	Mrs A S Koffi	Permanent	£101,853
2200315/2023	17 November 2023	Mr S Agar	Allspring Global Investments (UK) Ltd	£93,878

Top employers — sex discrimination cases

20 ranked by case count

#	Employer	Cases
01	North Lanarkshire Council	107
02	Kent County Council,	71
03	The Secretary of State for Justice	31
04	Royal Mail Group Limited	30
05	Tesco Stores Ltd	28
06	Asda Stores Limited	23
07	The Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis	23
08	Birmingham City Council	21
09	Sunderland City Council	19
10	Ministry of Defence	16
11	Wm Morrison Supermarkets Limited	15
12	London Underground Limited	14
13	Mitie Limited	14
14	Department for Work and Pensions

All sex discrimination cases

6,914 cases · page 65 of 139 · chronological

Case ref.	Decided	Claimant	Primary respondent	Jurisdiction	Total award
1400900/2019	7 January 2022	Mr Mark Hunt	Devon and Somerset Fire and Rescue Authority	England & Wales	—
2500549/2016	7 January 2022	Miss S Munro	Sunderland City Council	England & Wales	—
2500246/2014	7 January 2022	Mrs C Wilkinson	Sunderland City Council	England & Wales	—
2500511/2016	7 January 2022	Mr G Hill	Sunderland City Council	England & Wales	—
4109752/2021	7 January 2022	Members: P McColl S Larkin M L Webster	Marks and Spencer plc	Scotland	£0
2500181/2014	6 January 2022	Mr C Mitchell	Sunderland City Council	England & Wales	—
2500228/2014	6 January 2022	Mrs T Smith	Sunderland City Council	England & Wales	—
3300927/2021	6 January 2022	—

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.