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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| Withdrawn | 76 | 22% |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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 |
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 |
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| 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 | — |
| 2200986/2017 | 9 November 2018 | Mr J Horan, counsel For the | Mr S Devonshire, one of Her Majesty’s counsel | England & Wales | — |
| 4121645/2018 | 26 October 2018 | EMPLOYMENT TRIBUNALS (SCOTLAND) Case No: 4121645/2018 Mr J McCauley | Scotland In Union | Scotland | — |
| 2501482/2018 | 26 October 2018 | Mr R Kirkham First | Second Respondent: United Kingdom Research and Innovation Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council | England & Wales | — |
| 2300343/2019 | 22 October 2018 | Mr Adam Tinsley | DNA Vetcare Ltd | England & Wales | £4,089 |
| 2601685/2018 | 16 October 2018 | Mr A MacGuire | Angela Kaponas | England & Wales | — |
| 4104530/2018 | 12 October 2018 | EMPLOYMENT TRIBUNALS (SCOTLAND) Case No: 4104530/2018 Mr A Lago | Starbucks Coffee Company Limited | Scotland | — |
| 4101694/2017 | 10 August 2018 | J Hendry Members: Mr. A W Bruce Mr. A N Atkinson MS D Fitzpatrick | Represented by:15 Mr. M Briggs Solicitor The Scottish Ministers | Scotland | — |
| 1801044/2014 | 26 July 2018 | In person For the | — | England & Wales | — |
| 3331409/2018 | 17 July 2018 | R Williams | John Lewis plc | England & Wales | — |
| 2300443/2018 | 16 July 2018 | Ms A Sanshwe | Wickes Building Supplies Limited | England & Wales | — |
| 3200695/2018 | 22 June 2018 | Mr A Smith | Saxton 4 x 4 Limited | England & Wales | — |
| 1600434/2018 | 19 June 2018 | Mr C Chapman | TUI Airways Limited | England & Wales | — |
| 2602214/2017 | 10 April 2018 | Mrs D Jenkin Jones | Shakespeare Martineau LLP; Mark Beesley Emma Shipp Mark English Victoria Tester Andrew Taylor Andrew Whitbread Andy Raynor | England & Wales | — |
| 2303248/2017 | 22 March 2018 | Miss K Lewis | Merlin Attractions Operations Ltd | England & Wales | — |
| 2303149/2017 | 21 March 2018 | Mr L Green | East Sussex County Council | England & Wales | — |
| 2302020/2017 | 12 December 2017 | Mr A Hough | Iron Mountain (UK) Limited | England & Wales | — |
| 3330899/2018 | 9 December 2017 | In person. For the | — | England & Wales | — |
| 1600635/2016 | 25 September 2017 | MRS J WATSON (REPRESENTATIVE) FOR THE | — | England & Wales | — |
| 2200174/2017 | 24 August 2017 | In person For the | — | England & Wales | — |
| 4100763/2017 | 12 July 2017 | EMPLOYMENT TRIBUNALS (SCOTLAND) Case No: 4100763/2017 Mr K Smith | JMG Limited | Scotland | — |
| 4105611/2016 | 9 May 2017 | M Robison Mr R Miller | Scottish Hydro Electric Power Distribution plc | Scotland | — |
| 4104178/2016 | 29 March 2017 | EMPLOYMENT TRIBUNALS (SCOTLAND) Case No: 4104178/2016 Ms SJ Wilson | Royal Mail Group Limited | Scotland | — |
| 4104582/2016 | 15 March 2017 | EMPLOYMENT TRIBUNALS (SCOTLAND) Case No: 4104582/2016 Mr M Adams | Represented by: Mr I Wells Mr G Angus | Scotland | — |