Trade union compensation & tribunal success rate — UK data (page 10) | Tribunal Watch
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Trade union employment tribunal cases — UK data 2017–present
Tribunal Watch has indexed 473 UK employment tribunal cases involving trade union claims, published on gov.uk since 2017. Where compensation was recorded, the median award was £5,657 (the largest £223,146) across 33 cases. Tribunals upheld 72% of the 768 decided trade union claims. These cases name 392 distinct employers as respondents.
Total cases
473
Median award
£5,657
Claims upheld
72%
Largest single award
£223,146
Distinct employers
392
England & Wales
383
Scotland
90
Compensation in trade union cases
33 cases with a recorded award
Median
£5,657
Mean
£20,815
25th percentile
£3,028
75th percentile
£13,947
90th percentile
£35,893
Largest
£223,146
Figures are the total award recorded across cases that include a trade union claim and a published remedy — 33 of 473 trade union 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 trade union claims
982 adjudicated claims
Outcome
Claims
Share
Upheld
550
56%
Dismissed
218
22%
Struck out
106
11%
Withdrawn
68
7%
Other
38
4%
Settled
2
0%
Counting only claims a tribunal decided on the merits (upheld or dismissed), 72% of trade union claims were upheld — 550 of 768. Settled and withdrawn claims are excluded from that rate.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 trade union caseload if trade unionis 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.