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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| Withdrawn | 3,592 | 14% |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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3300381/2023 | 3 September 2023 | Miss Lisa Wilkinson | Miss Gurshital Gill | England & Wales | £1,536 |
| 1302108/2023 | 2 September 2023 | Christine Jones | Tarsaim and Mandeep Sandhu t/a Station Stores | England & Wales | — |
| 2500888/2024 | 2 September 2023 | F Elliott | Coquet Trust RECORD OF A PRELIMINARY HEARING | England & Wales | — |
| 3308088/2023 | 2 September 2023 | Mr M Benham | Boots Management Services Ltd | England & Wales | — |
| 3201541/2024 | 2 September 2023 | Mr Fazl Samuel | DPD Group UK Limited | England & Wales | £686 |
| 2500747/2024 | 2 September 2023 | Mr P Palmer First | Gap Organics Limited Second Respondent: Gap Group North East Limited | England & Wales | — |
| 1301400/2023 | 2 September 2023 | Ms E Sugrue-Lawrence | Orsa Housing Limited | England & Wales | — |
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 |
| 2 September 2023 |
| S Williams |
| Total Support Services Limited RECORD OF A PRELIMINARY HEARING |
| England & Wales |
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| 2500582/2024 | 2 September 2023 | L Readshaw | Middlesbrough Council RECORD OF HEARING | England & Wales | — |
| 3201230/2024 | 2 September 2023 | Mr Sundeep Dhillon | Gill Aggregates Limited | England & Wales | — |
| 3304222/2023 | 2 September 2023 | Mr P Trela | DHL International (UK) Limited | England & Wales | — |
| 3311629/2024 | 2 September 2023 | Miss K Perez-Tootell | Maxcare Ltd t/a Home Instead Farnborough | England & Wales | — |
| 3307815/2023 | 2 September 2023 | Mr Gurpal Singh Sidhu | International Distribution Services Ltd PRELIMINARY HEARING (in public) | England & Wales | — |
| 3311072/2024 | 2 September 2023 | Onyinye Ndukwe | Fortress Operations Limited RECORD OF A PRELIMINARY HEARING | England & Wales | — |
| 1305829/2023 | 2 September 2023 | Mr M Bentham | Cheshire Sports Coaching Ltd | England & Wales | £11,510 |
| 2500268/2024 | 2 September 2023 | Mrs B Gbefa | The Council of the City of Newcastle upon Tyne | England & Wales | — |
| 2300736/2023 | 2 September 2023 | Mr Arfan Khan | Harris Academy Merton – 1st Harris Federation – 2nd Mr Lee Malin – 3rd Mr Jamie Semple – 4th Ms Aisha Samad – 5th Ms Katherine Mann – 6th Mr Benjamin West – 7th | England & Wales | — |
| 6000179/2023 | 1 September 2023 | Mr D Woolass | Atalian Servest Food Co Limited | England & Wales | — |
| 2208264/2022 | 1 September 2023 | Mr P Powlesland (counsel) For the | — | England & Wales | £50,895 |
| 3315438/2022 | 1 September 2023 | In person For the | Ms A Achaempong, Litigation Consultant | England & Wales | — |
| 2301176/2021 | 1 September 2023 | Mr. MD Tanvir Rahman | Greggs plc | England & Wales | — |
| 3207231/2021 | 1 September 2023 | Ms J Keeper | Refuge (a charity and a company limited by guarantee) | England & Wales | — |
| 2501282/2023 | 1 September 2023 | Miss S Dixon | Arron Curer | England & Wales | — |
| 1303349/2022 | 1 September 2023 | Mr M Merry | The Co-Operative Group Ltd | England & Wales | — |
| 6011636/2025 | 1 September 2023 | Christian Price | Guttercrest Limited | England & Wales | — |
| 6011436/2024 | 1 September 2023 | Mr D Montague | Ezoic UK Limited | England & Wales | — |
| 3200998/2023 | 1 September 2023 | Miss L Newby | Cabin Crew International Ltd | England & Wales | — |
| 2304669/2022 | 1 September 2023 | Mr S Payne | Escape Kent Limited | England & Wales | £120 |
| 1306454/2024 | 1 September 2023 | Mr James Daniel | Grocery Delivery E-Services (UK) Ltd t/a HelloFresh | England & Wales | — |
| 2301218/2023 | 1 September 2023 | Mr B Wright | Connect Grp | England & Wales | — |
| 3323809/2021 | 1 September 2023 | In person For the | — | England & Wales | — |
| 1403107/2022 | 1 September 2023 | Mr D Ruffle | Innova Design & Build Limited (in voluntary liquidation) | England & Wales | — |
| 3305684/2022 | 1 September 2023 | Samantha Kirk | Johnsons Shoes Ltd | England & Wales | £15,031 |
| 3304947/2022 | 1 September 2023 | Miss M King | Mr A Brebner (First Respondent) The Hobby Company Limited (Second Respondent) | England & Wales | — |
| 6005027/2024 | 1 September 2023 | Mrs Samantha Coaker | London Fire Commissioner | England & Wales | — |
| 3206905/2021 | 1 September 2023 | Mr P Ojini | Greencore Food To Go Limited | England & Wales | — |
| 1402586/2022 | 1 September 2023 | Mr J Isham | Innova Design & Build Limited (in voluntary liquidation) | England & Wales | — |
| 3200648/2023 | 1 September 2023 | Ms F Rahman | B&Q Limited | England & Wales | — |
| 2500448/2025 | 1 September 2023 | J Routledge | Retox Digital Limited | England & Wales | — |
| 1801822/2023 | 1 September 2023 | In person For the | Joshua Burke (Solicitor) | England & Wales | — |
| 3321322/2021 | 1 September 2023 | Ms Chowdhury (solicitor) For the | Structural Steel Supplies Ltd (In Liquidation) | England & Wales | £22,639 |
| 1403059/2022 | 1 September 2023 | Mr P McGarry | Innova Design & Build Limited (in voluntary liquidation) | England & Wales | — |
| 4101861/2023 | 1 September 2023 | Mrs N McIntyre | Ltd (In Liquidation) | Scotland | — |
| 6019149/2024 | 1 September 2023 | Mr Z Sadique | DHL Services Limited | England & Wales | — |
| 6013715/2024 | 1 September 2023 | Mr R Caldicott | HBOS plc | England & Wales | — |
| 1802560/2023 | 1 September 2023 | Mr C Williams | Rivus Fleet Solutions | England & Wales | — |
| 3302016/2023 | 1 September 2023 | Mrs Tanya Waite | Reach Care Services Limited | England & Wales | — |
| 3307755/2023 | 1 September 2023 | In person For the | — | England & Wales | — |
| 3306229/2021 | 31 August 2023 | Mrs J Brar | Do & Co Event & Airline Catering Limited | England & Wales | — |
| 2404390/2023 | 31 August 2023 | Mr T Singh | 360 Fitness Performance Limited | England & Wales | — |