How much compensation do redundancy claims award at an employment tribunal?

Across 4,983 UK redundancy tribunal cases with a recorded remedy since 2017, the median total award was £6,319 and the largest was £658,333.

What percentage of redundancy claims succeed at an employment tribunal?

Of 5,431 redundancy claims decided on the merits by UK tribunals, 80% were upheld.

How many UK redundancy employment tribunal cases are there?

Tribunal Watch has indexed 11,980 redundancy employment tribunal judgments published on gov.uk since 2017.

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Redundancy employment tribunal cases — UK data 2017–present

Name: Redundancy UK employment tribunal statistics
Creator: Tribunal Watch
License: https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/

Tribunal Watch has indexed 11,980 UK employment tribunal cases involving redundancy claims, published on gov.uk since 2017. Where compensation was recorded, the median award was £6,319 (the largest £658,333) across 4,983 cases. Tribunals upheld 80% of the 5,431 decided redundancy claims. These cases name 8,950 distinct employers as respondents.

Total cases: 11,980
Median award: £6,319
Claims upheld: 80%
Largest single award: £658,333
Distinct employers: 8,950
England & Wales: 10,381
Scotland: 1,599

Compensation in redundancy cases

4,983 cases with a recorded award

Median: £6,319
Mean: £10,359
25th percentile: £2,845
75th percentile: £12,153
90th percentile: £20,660
Largest: £658,333

Figures are the total award recorded across cases that include a redundancy claim and a published remedy — 4,983 of 11,980 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

6,728 adjudicated claims

Outcome	Claims	Share
Upheld	4,370	65%
Dismissed	1,061	16%
Struck out	578	9%
Withdrawn	541	8%
Other	132	2%
Settled	46	1%

Counting only claims a tribunal decided on the merits (upheld or dismissed), 80% of redundancy claims were upheld — 4,370 of 5,431. Settled and withdrawn claims are excluded from that rate. Outcomes are recorded per claim, so a judgment can uphold one claim and dismiss another.

Redundancy cases per year

2017–2026

Year	Cases	Trend
2017	112
2018	212
2019	1,374
2020	1,990
2021	1,681
2022	1,651
2023	1,603
2024	1,474
2025	1,325
2026	558

Largest redundancy awards

Top 8 by total award

Case ref.	Decided	Claimant	Primary respondent	Total award
1600759/2023	16 October 2023	Mr M David and others (see Appendix 1)	DRB Group Limited	£658,333
2303760/2022	19 April 2023	Mr P Smith & Others	GX Technology EAME Limited (in liquidation)	£492,728
3304188/2022	28 July 2023	Cyril Gregory	Petro Trace Limited	£340,213
2414266/2021	7 March 2022	Mrs N Denmade and others (see schedule)	Trinity Brands UK Ltd	£219,664
3303037/2023	28 March 2024	Miss K Lynch	Marshall Eaton Holdings Limited	£216,294
2404024/2017	28 September 2018	L Roberts	Logo Design Grp Ltd	£210,212
3300972/2021	5 April 2023	Mr M Crowley (1) Mr E Witney (2) Mr S Rolls (3)	Sterling Thermal Technology Ltd	£203,851
1404124/2019	18 February 2020	Miss L Power and 29 others	Pitney Fabrication Co. Ltd	£201,107

Top employers — redundancy cases

20 ranked by case count

#	Employer	Cases
01	Secretary of State for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy	500
02	Secretary of State for Business & Trade	278
03	Qube Qualifications and Development Limited (in Creditors Voluntary Liquidation)	101
04	Harvard Technology Ltd (In Administration)	89
05	Thomas Cook Group UK Travel Ltd (in compulsory liquidation)	79
06	Testerworld Limited	73
07	Thomas Cook	47
08	Clarity Products Limited	42
09	Debenhams Retail Limited (in Administration)	37
10	Total Home Delivery Limited	33
11	STA Travel Limited (in liquidation)	29
12	HS Realisations Limited (Formerly Hewden Stuart Ltd)	27
13	Sonetik UK Ltd (In voluntary liquidation)

All redundancy cases

11,980 cases · page 238 of 240 · chronological

Case ref.	Decided	Claimant	Primary respondent	Jurisdiction	Total award
4100281/2018	14 March 2018	Mr W Bradley	Thistle Recycling Ltd	Scotland	—
4102302/2017	10 March 2018	M Robison Members Mr A Ross Mr H Boyd Mr R Sciortino	Lemac Engineering UK Ltd	Scotland	£0
3200383/2017	9 March 2018	Ms D Simeon	London Borough of Havering	England & Wales	£18,609
3323800/2017	8 March 2018	EMPLOYMENT TRIBUNALS (SCOTLAND) Case No: 3323800/2017 Mr P Gillon	Mylan N.v.	Scotland	—
4102336/2018	8 March 2018	EMPLOYMENT TRIBUNALS (SCOTLAND) Case No: 4102336/2018 Mr S Brown	Fleet Automotive Scotland Ltd	Scotland	—
2302996/2017	5 March 2018	Mr S Tunstead	L Kelaty Limited	England & Wales	—
2303144/2017	2 March 2018	Miss A Penfold	Julie Kiaris	England & Wales	£1,182
4105349/2017	22 February 2018	Mr G Cochrane

Methodology

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.

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