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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| Withdrawn | 75 | 22% |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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3300435/2019 | 28 August 2019 | Mr S Barber | Brewer & Jackson Homes | England & Wales | — |
| 2500446/2019 | 27 August 2019 | M Hanif | Department for Work and Pensions | England & Wales | — |
| 3333941/2018 | 24 August 2019 | — | Van Der Walt v Microsoft Ltd | England & Wales | — |
| 1801130/2019 | 22 August 2019 | Ms L Hussain | Sainsbury’s Supermarkets Limited | England & Wales | — |
| 3202230/2018 | 22 August 2019 | Mr R Knights | Morrison Utility Services Limited | England & Wales | — |
| 2302336/2017 | 20 August 2019 | MR P GRANT | JB Global Ltd | England & Wales | — |
| 3331560/2018 | 17 August 2019 | Ryan Burgess | Whitbread Group plc | England & Wales | — |
| 2200696/2019 | 16 August 2019 | Mr S Huang | Cocoon Global Limited |
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 |
| England & Wales |
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| 4123821/2018 | 15 August 2019 | EMPLOYMENT TRIBUNALS (SCOTLAND) Case No: 4123821/2018 Mr M McGowan | Represented by: Mr R Holland, Solicitor Qatar Airways | Scotland | — |
| 2501533/2018 | 15 August 2019 | Miss Taylor-Blaire, Lay representative For the | — | England & Wales | — |
| 2417104/2018 | 14 August 2019 | Mr D Hornsey Mr T Neill | Elpitha Ltd t/a Pizza Hut Delivery | England & Wales | — |
| 2600224/2019 | 13 August 2019 | Miss D Ruparelia | Parker Hannifin Manufacturing Limited | England & Wales | — |
| 1804092/2019 | 12 August 2019 | Mr G Kershaw | Mr A Handley t/a Brightstar Shotblasting | England & Wales | — |
| 2200036/2019 | 9 August 2019 | Mr P Garrett | Interserve Facilities Management Limited | England & Wales | £780 |
| 2404868/2019 | 9 August 2019 | Mr P Dee | Jacobs Enforcement | England & Wales | — |
| 3303939/2018 | 2 August 2019 | Miss C Richardson | Norfolk County Hotels Limited | England & Wales | — |
| 1402513/2019 | 31 July 2019 | Ms S Mallows | Nationwide Accident Repair Centre | England & Wales | — |
| 1601734/2018 | 30 July 2019 | Mr M Enos | Cardiff City Transport Services Limited & Others | England & Wales | — |
| 2304611/2018 | 25 July 2019 | Miss S Barnard | Robin Eldridge | England & Wales | — |
| 4104080/2019 | 25 July 2019 | EMPLOYMENT TRIBUNALS (SCOTLAND) Case No: 4104080/2019 Mr M Soso | Ltd (In Liquidation) | Scotland | — |
| 1301612/2018 | 24 July 2019 | In person For the | — | England & Wales | — |
| 4107313/2019 | 24 July 2019 | 69(scot) claim dismissed on withdrawal rule EMPLOYMENT TRIBUNALS (SCOTLAND) Case No: 4107313/2019 Ms S McGrath | Carlton Clubs Limited | Scotland | — |
| 1303809/2019 | 17 July 2019 | Mr M Dorel | Diebold Nixdorf | England & Wales | — |
| 1303808/2018 | 16 July 2019 | Mr M Charles | West Midlands Fire Service | England & Wales | — |
| 1401619/2018 | 5 July 2019 | in person. For the | — | England & Wales | — |
| 2402163/2019 | 4 July 2019 | Mr M Perrone | Procomm Site Services Ltd | England & Wales | — |
| 1800986/2019 | 2 July 2019 | Miss Firth, counsel | — | England & Wales | — |
| 2501176/2018 | 5 June 2019 | Mr Daniel Hart | Birmingham Neoglory Ltd (R1) Ms Karen Price (R2) Ms Linda Zhang otherwise known as Linda Xiong (R3) | England & Wales | £7,840 |
| 1401298/2019 | 24 May 2019 | Ms L Calienda | James Danahan | England & Wales | — |
| 2411086/2018 | 3 May 2019 | Mr W Hoch | Thor Atkinson Steel Fabrication Limited | England & Wales | — |
| 2416368/2018 | 16 April 2019 | Mrs P Day | The Bee Hive (NW) Ltd | England & Wales | — |
| 4100049/2017 | 10 April 2019 | E.T. Z (WR) EMPLOYMENT TRIBUNALS (SCOTLAND) Case No: 4100049/2017 Held in Glasgow on 1, 5, and March 2019 Employment Judge: W A Meiklejohn Members: Mrs E A Farrell Ms M McAllister Mr James Hunter | Represented by: Ms L Neil - Solicitor The Richmond Fellowship Scotland | Scotland | — |
| 1811115/2018 | 5 April 2019 | Mr L Doherty | St Anne'S Community Services | England & Wales | — |
| 3335326/2018 | 4 April 2019 | In person. For the | — | England & Wales | — |
| 4113344/2018 | 3 April 2019 | Tribunal Members: Mr R McPherson and Mr A McMillan Mr D S Heenan | Innseagan House Hotel Limited t/a Innseagan | Scotland | £842 |
| 2602088/2017 | 27 March 2019 | Mr B Russ | Custom Insulation Services Limited | England & Wales | £1,400 |
| 3306911/2018 | 25 March 2019 | Mr N Davidson | Pharma-Z Limited | England & Wales | — |
| 2302108/2018 | 21 March 2019 | Mr A Cook | Tesco plc | England & Wales | — |
| 4112547/2018 | 6 March 2019 | EMPLOYMENT TRIBUNALS (SCOTLAND) EMPLOYMENT TRIBUNALS (SCOTLAND) Case No: 4112547/2018 Held in Glasgow on February 2019 Employment Judge: W A Meiklejohn Miss Hailey MacKenzie | Represented by: Ms L Neil - Solicitor N&C Building Products Limited | Scotland | — |
| 4116781/2018 | 11 February 2019 | Mr A Stokes | Represented by: In person Whitbread Group plc | Scotland | — |
| 2302072/2018 | 21 December 2018 | In Person For the | — | England & Wales | — |
| 1303184/2018 | 19 December 2018 | Mr A Koczen | Steel & Alloy Processing Limited AS Connections Limited | England & Wales | — |
| 3325374/2017 | 17 December 2018 | Mr G Self (Counsel) For the | — | England & Wales | — |
| 3313420/2019 | 6 December 2018 | Did not attend and was not represented For the | Clarion Housing Group Ltd | England & Wales | — |
| 4121901/2018 | 3 December 2018 | J Young (sitting alone) Mr W W Buick | Halliburton Management Limited | Scotland | — |
| 1600441/2018 | 1 December 2018 | Mr S Williams | Green Willow Funerals Limited | England & Wales | — |
| 4107911/2018 | 29 November 2018 | : K Culloch Mrs A Shanahan Mr MD Rezaur Rahman | Common Thread Ltd | Scotland | £650 |
| 4121784/2018 | 26 November 2018 | EMPLOYMENT TRIBUNALS (SCOTLAND) Case No: 4121784/2018 Mr S O'Connor | Barclays Bank UK plc | Scotland | — |
| 3201697/2018 | 26 November 2018 | Mr. S Gillies | The Financial Ombudsmen Service | England & Wales | — |
| 4109198/2018 | 22 November 2018 | EMPLOYMENT TRIBUNALS (SCOTLAND) Case No: 4109198/2018 Miss D Rossiter | East Dumbartonshire Leisure & Culture Trust | Scotland | — |