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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| Withdrawn | 3,592 | 14% |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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2300555/2023 | 26 February 2024 | Mr Y Hussen | Sky Subscribers Services Limited | England & Wales | — |
| 1305040/2023 | 26 February 2024 | Mr J Flavell | Homescape Ltd | England & Wales | — |
| 2406117/2022 | 26 February 2024 | Mr H Azam | Manchester Airport plc HELD AT: Manchester | England & Wales | — |
| 2412881/2023 | 26 February 2024 | Mr B Mason | GM Barbers | England & Wales | — |
| 1602933/2023 | 26 February 2024 | Mr C BEST | Pobl Group Limited | England & Wales | — |
| 2601445/2022 | 23 February 2024 | Muhammad Ghaffar | Beauty Spot (Notts) Ltd (first Respondent) Mr Rashid Majid (second Respondent) | England & Wales | £56,745 |
| 2404401/2023 | 23 February 2024 | Miss M Wydra | Jana Durcikova | England & Wales | — |
| 4105423/2023 | 23 February 2024 | Mr Allan Tosh |
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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| 8000534/2023 | 23 February 2024 | EMPLOYMENT TRIBUNALS (SCOTLAND) Case No: 8000534/2023 Held in Aberdeen on February 2024 Employment Judge N M Hosie lain Sutherland | Aberdeen Mastic & Services Ltd | Scotland | — |
| 1306790/2020 | 23 February 2024 | No Appearance For the | Mr J Merry (Solicitor) | England & Wales | — |
| 2215381/2023 | 23 February 2024 | Mr Francesco Angelini | Kaizen Reporting Limited | England & Wales | — |
| 6002292/2023 | 23 February 2024 | Mr T Nichol | City of York Council | England & Wales | — |
| 2404481/2023 | 23 February 2024 | Miss C Drayson | ABM Catering Ltd | England & Wales | — |
| 2602964/2022 | 23 February 2024 | Ms Alison Harvey | Compass Group UK & Ireland Ltd | England & Wales | — |
| 2502513/2023 | 23 February 2024 | Ms N Walsh | Harley Ultrasound Ltd t/a Vivo | England & Wales | — |
| 6000818/2023 | 23 February 2024 | Mr M Lees | Specsavers Optical Superstores Limited | England & Wales | — |
| 2205767/2023 | 23 February 2024 | Mr S. Sameni Fallah | Outlier Ventures Operations Ltd | England & Wales | — |
| 8000522/2023 | 22 February 2024 | Mrs Kirsty Errington | Represented by:10 Mr F Marshall - CAB Amanda Gray | Scotland | — |
| 2407798/2023 | 22 February 2024 | Miss S Bennett | Capita EMS | England & Wales | — |
| 4105212/2023 | 22 February 2024 | Kokaine | Daru Ltd | Scotland | £12,385 |
| 1301723/2023 | 22 February 2024 | in person accompanied by a relative Mr Raphael Uzor, a solicitor acting in a personal capacity For the | — | England & Wales | — |
| 3204778/2022 | 22 February 2024 | Mr F Oseghale | Cygnet Learning Disability Limited | England & Wales | £2,641 |
| 3303279/2022 | 22 February 2024 | Mr A C Andrei | M4 Specialist | England & Wales | — |
| 2500227/2023 | 22 February 2024 | Mrs K Robinson | Rail Futures Network Limited | England & Wales | — |
| 3201552/2023 | 22 February 2024 | Mr B Hooper | Acorn Engineering Group Ltd | England & Wales | £9,061 |
| 2204823/2023 | 22 February 2024 | Mr. D McLean | G Network Communications Ltd | England & Wales | — |
| 1600771/2023 | 22 February 2024 | Mr G Delf | Leabold Financial Management Limited | England & Wales | — |
| 1402824/2022 | 22 February 2024 | Mrs Hodgson, the Claimant’s mother. For the | — | England & Wales | — |
| 1805603/2023 | 22 February 2024 | Ms M Kilner | Lishmans LLP Heard: By CVP | England & Wales | £50,355 |
| 4102767/2019 | 22 February 2024 | EMPLOYMENT TRIBUNALS (SCOTLAND) Case No: 4102767/2019 Held at Aberdeen on 21, 22, & August, 8, & November 2023 Employment Judge N M Hosie Members K Pirie A N Atkinson Ms J Crampshee | Represented by Mr M Allison, Advocate, instructed by Quantum Claims Dignity Funerals Limited | Scotland | £60,941 |
| 3201851/2023 | 22 February 2024 | Mr G Tingle | Singletrack Systems Limited | England & Wales | — |
| 1404697/2021 | 22 February 2024 | Mr Stephen Murdoch | Cornwall Air Ambulance Trust | England & Wales | — |
| 3301138/2021 | 22 February 2024 | Mrs Catherine Sealy | British Airways plc | England & Wales | — |
| 6001050/2023 | 22 February 2024 | Mrs. L Bailey | Burmantofts Community Projects | England & Wales | — |
| 2600147/2024 | 21 February 2024 | Mrs P Varnham | Bradgate Stores | England & Wales | — |
| 8000560/2023 | 21 February 2024 | EMPLOYMENT TRIBUNALS (SCOTLAND) Case Number: 8000560/2023 Mr G Ocytko | Represented by: The Law Society of Scotland | Scotland | — |
| 3303805/2023 | 21 February 2024 | Miss L Stone | Mr Kappor | England & Wales | £414 |
| 3306120/2023 | 21 February 2024 | In person For the | Ken Read & Son Ltd (in Administration) | England & Wales | £2,790 |
| 1400169/2024 | 21 February 2024 | Mr S Kotecha | Basingstoke College of Technology | England & Wales | — |
| 3311780/2022 | 21 February 2024 | Adam Hallsworth | NAM Global Ltd | England & Wales | £29,684 |
| 3310360/2023 | 21 February 2024 | Mr J Kerrigan | Brooknight Security Ltd | England & Wales | — |
| 3202324/2023 | 21 February 2024 | Mr J D Ball | FIRMA Foreign Exchange Corporation (UK) Limited | England & Wales | — |
| 3311822/2023 | 21 February 2024 | Mr J J Blakeley | PLK Chicken UK Ltd | England & Wales | — |
| 3302505/2023 | 21 February 2024 | In person For the | Miss C Nicolaou, solicitor | England & Wales | — |
| 3300644/2023 | 21 February 2024 | In person For the | — | England & Wales | — |
| 2603253/2021 | 21 February 2024 | Mr. A Dasilva Moita | Huffey Group Limited (In Administration) | England & Wales | — |
| 3313225/2023 | 21 February 2024 | Mrs A Syed | Surrey County Council | England & Wales | — |
| 2600591/2023 | 21 February 2024 | Mr J Fletcher | Blachford UK Ltd | England & Wales | — |
| 3302159/2023 | 21 February 2024 | Mr S Parmar | Internorm Windows UK Limited | England & Wales | — |
| 1405926/2023 | 21 February 2024 | Mr M Lord | Initiative Property Management Ltd | England & Wales | £8,036 |