Redundancy compensation & tribunal success rate — UK data (page 235) | Tribunal Watch
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Redundancy employment tribunal cases — UK data 2017–present
Tribunal Watch has indexed 11,705 UK employment tribunal cases involving redundancy claims, published on gov.uk since 2017. Where compensation was recorded, the median award was £6,282 (the largest £658,333) across 4,861 cases. Tribunals upheld 80% of the 5,284 decided redundancy claims. These cases name 8,760 distinct employers as respondents.
Total cases
11,705
Median award
£6,282
Claims upheld
80%
Largest single award
£658,333
Distinct employers
8,760
England & Wales
10,171
Scotland
1,534
Compensation in redundancy cases
4,861 cases with a recorded award
Median
£6,282
Mean
£10,316
25th percentile
£2,835
75th percentile
£12,051
90th percentile
£20,399
Largest
£658,333
Figures are the total award recorded across cases that include a redundancy claim and a published remedy — 4,861 of 11,705 redundancy 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 redundancy claims
6,558 adjudicated claims
Outcome
Claims
Share
Upheld
4,246
65%
Dismissed
1,038
16%
Struck out
566
9%
Withdrawn
538
8%
Other
124
2%
Settled
46
1%
Counting only claims a tribunal decided on the merits (upheld or dismissed), 80% of redundancy claims were upheld — 4,246 of 5,284. Settled and withdrawn claims are excluded from that rate. Outcomes are recorded per claim, so a judgment can uphold one claim and dismiss another.
Cases on this page are identified by first-pass extraction against the locked §4.4 claim-type taxonomy — a judgment enters the redundancy caseload if redundancyis 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.