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Tribunal Watch has indexed 842 UK employment tribunal cases involving sexual orientation discrimination claims, published on gov.uk since 2017. Where compensation was recorded, the median award was £4,449 (the largest £174,645) across 70 cases. Tribunals upheld 15% of the 164 decided sexual orientation discrimination claims. These cases name 810 distinct employers as respondents.
| Outcome | Claims | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Dismissed | 139 | 40% |
| Struck out | 80 | 23% |
| Withdrawn | 76 | 22% |
| Other | 28 | 8% |
| Upheld | 25 | 7% |
| Settled | 1 | 0% |
| Year | Cases | Trend |
|---|---|---|
| 2017 | 8 | |
| 2018 | 25 | |
| 2019 | 112 | |
| 2020 | 190 | |
| 2021 | 82 | |
| 2022 | 93 | |
| 2023 | 102 | |
| 2024 | 101 | |
| 2025 | 81 | |
| 2026 | 48 |
| Case ref. | Decided | Claimant | Primary respondent | Total award |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2416884/2018 | 20 March 2020 | Mr P Allen | Paradigm Precision Burnley Limited | £174,645 |
| 2201552/2024 | 24 March 2025 | Mrs E Trobe | Nomad Health Technologies Ltd | £99,169 |
| 2200315/2023 | 17 November 2023 | Mr S Agar | Allspring Global Investments (UK) Ltd | £93,878 |
| 2300246/2023 | 18 July 2024 | — | LR C&R Ltd | £77,861 |
| 3202429/2019 | 14 May 2021 | Kim Holman Lauren Gardiner | Ambulance Transfers Ltd Joseph Church | £57,377 |
| 3200652/2021 | 5 May 2022 | Ms C Roderique | Ldn Global Group Limited (In Liquidation) | £46,465 |
| 2204890/2019 | 14 July 2021 | Mr M Weinreb | Online Travel Training Group Ltd Heard partly in person and partly via Cloud Video Platform (London Central) | £40,041 |
| 2202973/2022 | 22 March 2023 | In person | — | £39,080 |
| Case ref. | Decided | Claimant | Primary respondent | Jurisdiction | Total award |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2500134/2020 | 2 February 2021 | Mr Frank Elliot | Tyne Housing Association Limited | England & Wales | — |
| 2402158/2020 | 1 February 2021 | Mr R Diamantini | Wilmslow Catering Ltd PRELIMINARY HEARING | England & Wales | — |
| 1404733/2019 | 28 January 2021 | Mr D Proffitt | First Greater Western Limited t/a Great Western Railway | England & Wales | — |
| 3201739/2020 | 25 January 2021 | Mr K Sangar | East Village Dental Ltd | England & Wales | — |
| 2415427/2018 | 18 January 2021 | Mrs P Day | Bee Hive (NW) Limited and others | England & Wales | — |
| 1404977/2019 | 8 January 2021 | Mr M Tonge | Student Union @ Bournemouth University | England & Wales | — |
| 1401128/2020 | 8 January 2021 | Mrs P Al Said | Bath Spa University PRELIMINARY HEARING | England & Wales | — |
Cases on this page are identified by first-pass extraction against the locked §4.4 claim-type taxonomy — a judgment enters the sexual orientation discrimination caseload if sexual orientation 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.
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| 16 | East 45 Ltd | 2 |
| 17 | Easyjet Airline Company Limited | 2 |
| 18 | EE Limited | 2 |
| 19 | Harrison Fabrication Lifting Limited Heard: by Cloud Video Platform (Bury St Edmunds) | 2 |
| 20 | ISS Facility Services Limited | 2 |
| 1306745/2019 |
| 23 December 2020 |
| Mr G Clarke |
| Network Rail Infrastructure Limited |
| England & Wales |
| — |
| 2502081/2020 | 22 December 2020 | Mr S Matthews | — | England & Wales | — |
| 3201153/2020 | 21 December 2020 | Mr K Zaman | Catherine Chan | England & Wales | — |
| 1308074/2019 | 17 December 2020 | Mrs D Daley | Optiva | England & Wales | — |
| 2410736/2019 | 11 December 2020 | Mr A Voronov | University Hospital Southampton NHS Foundation Trust | England & Wales | — |
| 3319932/2019 | 8 December 2020 | Mr C Williamson | Ambivent Limited | England & Wales | £1,050 |
| 2501665/2020 | 3 December 2020 | Mr M Strozik | Amazon UK Services Limited | England & Wales | — |
| 1401805/2020 | 3 December 2020 | Mr J Heard of Counsel For the | — | England & Wales | — |
| 2201616/2020 | 28 November 2020 | Ms E Gray | Chelsea FC plc | England & Wales | — |
| 2411372/2019 | 19 November 2020 | Mr Michael Stevens | Secretary of State for Education | England & Wales | — |
| 1400773/2018 | 19 November 2020 | XA | The Royal Navy - Ministry of Defence PRELIMINARY HEARING | England & Wales | — |
| 2300889/2020 | 18 November 2020 | Mr R Ferley | Richmond and Wandsworth Councils | England & Wales | — |
| 2204961/2019 | 16 November 2020 | In person For the | — | England & Wales | — |
| 1805360/2020 | 13 November 2020 | Mr SW Hopkinson | The Chief Constable of West Yorkshire Police | England & Wales | — |
| 2303809/2019 | 11 November 2020 | Mr JB Mandicourt | Glen Grant Limited | England & Wales | — |
| 2203266/2020 | 11 November 2020 | Mr D A Simpson | W H Smith Retail Holdings Limited | England & Wales | — |
| 2406030/2019 | 11 November 2020 | Mr W Russell | Guild Energy Limited | England & Wales | — |
| 2600719/2020 | 28 October 2020 | Miss S Cleaver | (R1) Witherslack Group Limited (R2) Ms R Brown (R3) Ms D McKechnie | England & Wales | — |
| 3321367/2019 | 28 October 2020 | Mr D Kuma | Asda Stores Limited | England & Wales | — |
| 2415228/2019 | 23 October 2020 | Miss M Kegg | Mobica Limited | England & Wales | — |
| 2300639/2020 | 21 October 2020 | Mr D Huey | Compass Group UK & Ireland Ltd | England & Wales | — |
| 1403053/2018 | 19 October 2020 | Ms J M Rose | Serco Limited | England & Wales | — |
| 1403814/2020 | 1 October 2020 | Mr S Kitchener | Argos Limited | England & Wales | — |
| 2200190/2020 | 24 September 2020 | Mr A Dowsett | Capita Customer Management Limited AT A PRELIMINARY HEARING | England & Wales | — |
| 2502315/2019 | 24 September 2020 | Mr B Kiragu | William Hill Organisation Limited | England & Wales | — |
| 1803869/2020 | 23 September 2020 | In person For the | Mr Knill (solicitor) | England & Wales | — |
| 2406056/2020 | 22 September 2020 | Miss A Hughes | Rectella Limited | England & Wales | — |
| 1801674/2020 | 16 September 2020 | Mr S Dillon | R1: Gap Personnel Holdings Ltd R2: Staffline Recruitment Limited | England & Wales | — |
| 1304471/2018 | 14 September 2020 | Ms R White, Counsel For the | — | England & Wales | — |
| 3302049/2020 | 3 September 2020 | Miss T Lioga | Sainsburys Supermarkets Ltd | England & Wales | — |
| 2201498/2019 | 2 September 2020 | Mr S McDonagh | The Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis | England & Wales | — |
| 1800577/2020 | 2 September 2020 | Mr K Ansbro | Leeds Plywood Doors | England & Wales | — |
| 2400058/2020 | 28 August 2020 | Mr P Norton | Leven Consultants Ltd | England & Wales | £0 |
| 4113140/2019 | 28 August 2020 | Member Mrs E A Farrell Tribunal Member Mr J Burnett Ms Aleksandra Zarzycka | B & M Sausages Limited | Scotland | £2,558 |
| 2406072/2019 | 27 August 2020 | Ms J Rhodes | 1) Garrett Motion UK Limited 2) Mr Errol Bryan | England & Wales | — |
| 3201760/2020 | 26 August 2020 | Ms Shelley White | ML Ventures Limited | England & Wales | — |
| 1802761/2020 | 25 August 2020 | Mr M Dwyer | BM Retail Ltd | England & Wales | — |
| 1803011/2020 | 25 August 2020 | Ms J Baptist | Welbilt UK Limited | England & Wales | — |
| 2300907/2019 | 24 August 2020 | Mr T Jeurninck & Mr M Scatena | Piatto (London) Ltd | England & Wales | — |
| 2602172/2019 | 20 August 2020 | Miss E Mazurkiewicz | Brunel Healthcare | England & Wales | — |
| 2400150/2020 | 20 August 2020 | Mr B Armstrong | The Guinness Partnership Ltd | England & Wales | — |
| 1804413/2019 | 17 August 2020 | Mx KJ Kosschuk | Modality Partnership | England & Wales | £35 |