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Tribunal Watch has indexed 39,515 UK employment tribunal cases involving unfair dismissal claims, published on gov.uk since 2017. Where compensation was recorded, the median award was £6,352 (the largest £3,449,329) across 5,343 cases. Tribunals upheld 38% of the 15,214 decided unfair dismissal claims. These cases name 29,766 distinct employers as respondents.
| Outcome | Claims | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Dismissed | 9,396 | 35% |
| Struck out | 6,533 | 25% |
| Upheld | 5,818 | 22% |
| Withdrawn | 3,592 | 14% |
| Other | 1,026 | 4% |
| Settled | 106 | 0% |
| Year | Cases | Trend |
|---|---|---|
| 2017 | 529 | |
| 2018 | 910 | |
| 2019 | 5,942 | |
| 2020 | 8,014 | |
| 2021 | 5,248 | |
| 2022 | 4,871 | |
| 2023 | 4,455 | |
| 2024 | 4,023 | |
| 2025 | 3,577 | |
| 2026 | 1,946 |
| Case ref. | Decided | Claimant | Primary respondent | Total award |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1404855/2018 | 5 June 2019 | In person For the | University of Southampton | £3,449,329 |
| 2302179/2017 | 17 June 2022 | Mr C Crow (Counsel) For the | — | £1,009,832 |
| 3304188/2022 | 28 July 2023 | Cyril Gregory | Petro Trace Limited | £340,213 |
| 1801339/2017 | 9 May 2018 | Miss S J Austin | Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust | £269,114 |
| 1600183/2021 | 27 November 2020 | Ms Peak Ong | Aberystwyth University | £264,442 |
| 3320831/2021 | 30 November 2022 | Mr Joh Murphy | Remus Corporation UK Limited (in compulsory liquidation) | £234,410 |
| 3305627/2024 | 6 August 2025 | Mr Richard Cooke | Seven Resourcing Limited | £229,119 |
| 3303448/2019 | 25 March 2021 | Scott Neto | Key People Limited | £217,039 |
| Case ref. | Decided | Claimant | Primary respondent | Jurisdiction | Total award |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2307471/2023 | 30 April 2024 | Mr Jan Nordman | Lidl Great Britain Limited | England & Wales | — |
| 1303296/2022 | 30 April 2024 | Mr A Monks | PJD Mechanical Engineering Limited | England & Wales | — |
| 2602073/2023 | 30 April 2024 | Miss N Webster | Lindsay Marshall | England & Wales | — |
| 1600270/2024 | 30 April 2024 | Mr A Evans | Land Search and Data Ltd | England & Wales | £14,037 |
| 2305102/2023 | 30 April 2024 | Ms J Edwards | Gallium Fund Solutions Administration Limited Gallium Depositary | England & Wales | — |
| 3305996/2023 | 30 April 2024 | Miss R Jeffery | Priors Court Foundation | England & Wales | £1,420 |
| 2602072/2023 | 30 April 2024 | Mrs J Briddon | Lindsay Marshall | England & Wales | — |
| 3205270/2022 | 30 April 2024 | In person For the |
Cases on this page are identified by first-pass extraction against the locked §4.4 claim-type taxonomy — a judgment enters the unfair dismissal caseload if unfair dismissalis 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 | Network Rail Infrastructure Limited | 50 |
| 17 | British Airways plc | 47 |
| 18 | Limited (in Liquidation) | 47 |
| 19 | Secretary of State for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy | 47 |
| 20 | British Telecommunications plc | 46 |
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| 2603259/2023 | 30 April 2024 | Mr M Bishop | David Sandham Trading Ltd | England & Wales | — |
| 1401487/2023 | 30 April 2024 | Mr Laidlaw | Muller UK and Ireland LLP | England & Wales | — |
| 1601254/2022 | 30 April 2024 | Mrs C Wilson | West Wales Bacon Supplies Limited | England & Wales | — |
| 2500444/2023 | 29 April 2024 | Mrs J Wearn | Metnor Group in administration | England & Wales | — |
| 2400040/2023 | 29 April 2024 | Mr T Freeman | Casicare Holistic Approaches Limited (in creditors’ voluntary liquidation) | England & Wales | — |
| 3306966/2023 | 29 April 2024 | Miss D Kosko | White Swann Aesthetics Limited | England & Wales | £6,720 |
| 2302872/2023 | 29 April 2024 | Ms S Bohn | Headstart App Limited | England & Wales | £25,586 |
| 2302131/2023 | 29 April 2024 | M Foulkes | 2Gether Support Solutions Limited | England & Wales | — |
| 4107291/2023 | 29 April 2024 | Ms L Whitefield | Represented by: Mr D Reid - TU Representative JS Main and Sons Limited | Scotland | £3,303 |
| 1602329/2023 | 29 April 2024 | IN PERSON FOR THE | Ms Hanmer (solicitor) | England & Wales | — |
| 6002672/2023 | 29 April 2024 | M C Donachie | Maximus UK Services Ltd | England & Wales | — |
| 1802530/2023 | 29 April 2024 | Charmaine Angela Cunningham | Asda Stores Limited | England & Wales | — |
| 8000617/2023 | 29 April 2024 | ETZ 4(WR) IN THE EMPLOYMENT TRIBUNAL (SCOTLAND) Judgment of the Employment Tribunal in Case No: 8000617/2023 issued following Open Preliminary Hearing Held on the Cloud Based Video Platform, at Edinburgh, on the th of April 2024 Employment Judge J G d’Inverno Mr Nawaz Mohammed | , HR Consultant The Chief Constable of the Police Service of Scotland | Scotland | — |
| 2409182/2023 | 29 April 2024 | Mrs A Robinson | The Little Wren Ltd t/a Bluebird Care | England & Wales | £1,481 |
| 2404647/2022 | 29 April 2024 | Ms L Crocombe | Equity Release Supermarket Ltd | England & Wales | — |
| 4100534/2024 | 29 April 2024 | Mr J Mckinsley | Advanced Roofing Edinburgh Ltd | Scotland | — |
| 2408869/2022 | 29 April 2024 | Mr Karl Ramsden | Ron Chalker (“The Potato Man”) Limited (In Voluntary Liquidation) HELD AT: Manchester | England & Wales | £12,147 |
| 2502086/2023 | 29 April 2024 | Ms D Black | Mr David McArthur and Mrs Kay McArthur t/a Mulroy’s Seaview Nursing Home | England & Wales | £1,988 |
| 2402583/2023 | 29 April 2024 | Miss R Wadkin | Cheshire & Wirral Partnership NHS Foundation Trust | England & Wales | — |
| 3303070/2024 | 29 April 2024 | In person For the | Miss Jervis (In-house Counsel) | England & Wales | — |
| 2305837/2023 | 26 April 2024 | Mr Brendan Walker | John Lewis plc | England & Wales | — |
| 2408766/2023 | 26 April 2024 | Mr L Atkinson | DPD Group UK Limited | England & Wales | — |
| 6001112/2023 | 26 April 2024 | Did not appear and was not represented For the | — | England & Wales | — |
| 2402734/2022 | 26 April 2024 | John William Kennedy Boggs | Warrington and Halton Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust | England & Wales | — |
| 3312384/2023 | 26 April 2024 | Mr M Aden | Gist Ltd | England & Wales | — |
| 1304802/2023 | 26 April 2024 | Miss T Walker | Age UK Bromsgrove Redditch and Wyre Forest | England & Wales | — |
| 2400679/2024 | 26 April 2024 | Miss P Smith | Francomes Building Timber and Landscaping Supplies | England & Wales | — |
| 2401182/2023 | 26 April 2024 | Miss A Khan | TLB Medicals Ltd | England & Wales | — |
| 2302161/2023 | 26 April 2024 | Ms Rosemary Fregane | Oyster Bay Ltd | England & Wales | — |
| 2303709/2023 | 26 April 2024 | Mr G Adams | Wickes Building Supplies Limited | England & Wales | — |
| 1800092/2023 | 26 April 2024 | Mrs L Oscroft | Apollo Home Healthcare Ltd | England & Wales | — |
| 1308712/2023 | 26 April 2024 | Mr L Sharpe | Colas Ltd | England & Wales | — |
| 2402559/2023 | 26 April 2024 | Ms A Saffer | University of Salford | England & Wales | — |
| 2411907/2023 | 26 April 2024 | Mr R Melia | Sylvester’s Bar UK Ltd | England & Wales | — |
| 2400253/2024 | 26 April 2024 | Mr M Prior | Nationwide Managers | England & Wales | — |
| 2500888/2022 | 26 April 2024 | Miss B King | Testerworld Limited | England & Wales | — |
| 3309850/2022 | 25 April 2024 | Ms Zainab Adan | Barnet, Enfield and Haringey Mental Health NHS Trust | England & Wales | — |
| 1807490/2023 | 25 April 2024 | Mr P Williams | Yorkshire Water Services Limited HELD at Leeds by CVP | England & Wales | — |
| 1403446/2023 | 25 April 2024 | Mr J Kent | Gov Facility Services Limited | England & Wales | — |
| 1401339/2023 | 25 April 2024 | Mrs Louise Anderson | AND South West Thermal Limited | England & Wales | £2,350 |
| 2502748/2023 | 25 April 2024 | Mr N Hutchinson | National Timber Group England Ltd | England & Wales | — |
| 1400544/2024 | 25 April 2024 | Mr A Waradana | Akoom Technologies Limited | England & Wales | — |