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Tribunal Watch has indexed 823 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 162 decided sexual orientation discrimination claims. These cases name 793 distinct employers as respondents.
| Outcome | Claims | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Dismissed | 137 | 40% |
| Struck out | 78 | 23% |
| Withdrawn | 75 | 22% |
| Other | 27 | 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 | 29 |
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2205836/2016 | 29 November 2019 | David Reade QC For the | James Laddie QC | England & Wales | — |
| 2304225/2019 | 29 November 2019 | — | Patel v Equiniti Services Ltd and Ms Lina Brown | England & Wales | — |
| 1403469/2019 | 29 November 2019 | Mrs K Jenkins | Addaction Ltd | England & Wales | — |
| 2300273/2019 | 29 November 2019 | Mr C Watson | 1) Yew Tree Lodge Ltd 2) Julienne Orchard | England & Wales | — |
| 2413351/2018 | 28 November 2019 | Mr J Morley | Reece Driscoll | England & Wales | £2,764 |
| 2602517/2019 | 26 November 2019 | Mr L Mishra | Galliford Try Services Ltd | England & Wales | — |
| 4102151/2020 | 23 November 2019 | : N Elliot & W Muir Miss A | Represented by: Ms H Hiram - Non practising solicitor DSR Restaurants Ltd t/a McDonald’s | Scotland | — |
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 | EE Limited | 2 |
| 18 | Harrison Fabrication Lifting Limited Heard: by Cloud Video Platform (Bury St Edmunds) | 2 |
| 19 | ISS Facility Services Limited | 2 |
| 20 | London Borough of Redbridge | 2 |
| 3313375/2019 |
| 21 November 2019 |
| Mr J Van Heron |
| Stonegate Pub Company Limited |
| England & Wales |
| — |
| 3303766/2019 | 20 November 2019 | In person For the | — | England & Wales | — |
| 3201926/2019 | 18 November 2019 | Mr Paul Mahoney | London Borough of Redbridge | England & Wales | — |
| 2405820/2019 | 14 November 2019 | Mr G Darley | Cumbria County Council | England & Wales | — |
| 3330608/2018 | 13 November 2019 | Mr C Hayburn | Lynch Plant Hire & Haulage | England & Wales | — |
| 4111400/2019 | 12 November 2019 | E.T. Z (WR) EMPLOYMENT TRIBUNALS (SCOTLAND) Case No: 4111400/2019 Interim Relief Hearing held in Edinburgh on November 2019 Employment Judge M A Macleod Mr M Doherty | Avaloq Innovation Ltd | Scotland | — |
| 2401618/2019 | 8 November 2019 | Mr S Piatczanyn | Matalan Retail Limited | England & Wales | — |
| 2302293/2019 | 8 November 2019 | Mr U. Baz | Colosseum Dental UK Limited | England & Wales | — |
| 3319512/2019 | 7 November 2019 | In person. For the | — | England & Wales | — |
| 1403470/2019 | 7 November 2019 | Mr H Linganathan | City Of Bristol College | England & Wales | — |
| 1302077/2019 | 6 November 2019 | Did not attend For the | Ms K Bennett, Litigation Executive | England & Wales | — |
| 1403845/2019 | 1 November 2019 | Miss S Gladstone | Greene King Services Limited | England & Wales | — |
| 2302905/2018 | 1 November 2019 | Ms. S Forsyth (Employment Case Worker) For the | Steven Fitzgerald | England & Wales | £2,270 |
| 3313788/2019 | 1 November 2019 | Mr A Walters | Open Youth Trust | England & Wales | — |
| 2410307/2019 | 1 November 2019 | Mr S Clementson | Sooty’s and Sweep’s Limited | England & Wales | — |
| 3202244/2018 | 31 October 2019 | Ms L Young | Ambulance Transfers Ltd | England & Wales | — |
| 1803609/2019 | 29 October 2019 | Mrs U Nargis Akhtar | HBOS plc | England & Wales | — |
| 2602229/2019 | 26 October 2019 | Mr S Swinscoe | Domestic & General Services Ltd | England & Wales | — |
| 2402837/2019 | 24 October 2019 | Mrs G Hobson | Northern Schools Trust | England & Wales | — |
| 2300420/2019 | 23 October 2019 | Miss D Ashby | Screwfix Direct Limited | England & Wales | — |
| 2201243/2019 | 22 October 2019 | Mr H Travers of Counsel For the | — | England & Wales | — |
| 1401632/2017 | 15 October 2019 | Ms B Bailey | The Chief Constable of Gloucestershire Constabulary | England & Wales | — |
| 2200072/2019 | 14 October 2019 | Ms DP Jimenez Penagos | Incentive Qas Ltd | England & Wales | — |
| 1303281/2018 | 7 October 2019 | Mr R Ware | Harris & Sons Removal & Storage Ltd | England & Wales | £9,695 |
| 3332164/2018 | 6 October 2019 | Mr L Colgrave | Provident Personal Credit Limited | England & Wales | — |
| 4107848/2019 | 30 September 2019 | No: S/4107848/2019 Mr F MacKenzie | Scotbake Ltd | Scotland | — |
| 1303909/2018 | 30 September 2019 | Mr S Stevens | Mrs R Ghia t/a Marlyn House Residential Rest Home | England & Wales | — |
| 3334967/2018 | 26 September 2019 | — | CH & CO Catering Group Limited | England & Wales | — |
| 1600442/2019 | 25 September 2019 | Mr W O'Neill | Tata Steel UK Limited | England & Wales | — |
| 1601866/2018 | 24 September 2019 | Mr M Goodwin | Toucan Recruitment Limited | England & Wales | — |
| 2416227/2018 | 24 September 2019 | Mr D Wood | Cammell Laird Shiprepairers and Shipbuilders Limited | England & Wales | — |
| 2405473/2019 | 17 September 2019 | Mr Jose Luis De Freitas | H.Samson (Bolton) Limited & Others | England & Wales | — |
| 1802451/2019 | 16 September 2019 | Miss R Kaur | Santander UK plc | England & Wales | — |
| 1401809/2019 | 11 September 2019 | Mrs A Bird | Spartal Ltd | England & Wales | — |
| 2303074/2018 | 10 September 2019 | Mr P Ansell | Leo Leisure | England & Wales | — |
| 1801670/2019 | 10 September 2019 | Mr C Vickers | T J Morris Limited t/a Home Bargains | England & Wales | — |
| 2200950/2019 | 9 September 2019 | Mr S Hughes, Lay Representative For the | — | England & Wales | — |
| 3201118/2019 | 9 September 2019 | Ms Tracey Maiden | Fyfe Wilson Ltd | England & Wales | — |
| 1600051/2019 | 6 September 2019 | Mrs N Lovell | Nidec Industrial Automation UK Ltd | England & Wales | — |
| 1600723/2019 | 2 September 2019 | Mrs K Page | Landsker Child Care Limited | England & Wales | — |
| 2201656/2018 | 30 August 2019 | Mr A Korn, of Counsel For the | — | England & Wales | — |
| 3300435/2019 | 28 August 2019 | Mr S Barber | Brewer & Jackson Homes | England & Wales | — |
| 1402941/2018 | 28 August 2019 | In person For the | — | England & Wales | — |