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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| Withdrawn | 3,592 | 14% |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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1805351/2022 | 7 February 2023 | In person For the | — | England & Wales | — |
| 2501665/2022 | 7 February 2023 | Mr C Murphy | Safety Kleen UK Ltd | England & Wales | — |
| 2501998/2020 | 7 February 2023 | Mrs C Sutcliffe | Debenhams Retail Limited (in Administration) | England & Wales | — |
| 2301431/2022 | 7 February 2023 | Mr M Peters | London General Transport Services Limited t/a Go Ahead London | England & Wales | £12,474 |
| 2401735/2021 | 7 February 2023 | Mrs G Burgan | Elysium Healthcare Ltd | England & Wales | — |
| 2417948/2020 | 7 February 2023 | Miss J Corbett | Debenhams Retail Limited (in Administration) | England & Wales | — |
| 2400398/2022 | 7 February 2023 | Mr F Taylor | Moo Media Limited | England & Wales | — |
| 1805591/2021 | 7 February 2023 | Mr Arthur Mark Robinson |
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 |
| England & Wales |
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| 3323199/2021 | 7 February 2023 | Mr B Handford | Ms Y Shkop | England & Wales | £0 |
| 2600662/2022 | 7 February 2023 | Mrs A Plewa | I Holland Limited | England & Wales | — |
| 1402506/2021 | 7 February 2023 | Miss T Jones of Counsel For the | — | England & Wales | — |
| 1400758/2022 | 7 February 2023 | Miss D Brownlie | Nandos Chickenland Limited | England & Wales | — |
| 2301550/2022 | 7 February 2023 | Mrs R Stevenson | Compass Academy Trust | England & Wales | — |
| 2401102/2021 | 7 February 2023 | Mr A Ward | Kapetil (High Peak) Ltd T/A Toni & Guy Macclesfield | England & Wales | — |
| 1600791/2022 | 7 February 2023 | Ms S Wareing | SteamCardiff Limited | England & Wales | — |
| 2301359/2022 | 7 February 2023 | Philip Stagg | Trek Diagnostics Systems Limited | England & Wales | — |
| 4105053/2022 | 7 February 2023 | ETZ 4(WR) EMPLOYMENT TRIBUNALS (SCOTLAND) Case No: 4105053/2022 Preliminary Hearing by Cloud Video Platform at Edinburgh on January 2023 Employment Judge: M A Macleod Kenneth Beacom | Represented by Mr G McCann Lay Representative Renfrew Golf Club | Scotland | — |
| 3307188/2022 | 7 February 2023 | Mr S Smith | John Lewis plc | England & Wales | — |
| 1600254/2022 | 7 February 2023 | Mr J Morgan | The Baglan Hotel | England & Wales | — |
| 3322627/2021 | 6 February 2023 | In person For the | — | England & Wales | — |
| 1404207/2022 | 6 February 2023 | Mr S Hughes | Fineline Aluminium | England & Wales | — |
| 1804939/2022 | 6 February 2023 | Mr D Towers First | John and Ruth Pell T/A Jack Doors | England & Wales | £11,995 |
| 1600129/2022 | 6 February 2023 | Mr F E Obiang Mbasogo | Standard Office Cleaning Ltd (trading as “The Clean Space”) | England & Wales | £1,372 |
| 3314115/2021 | 6 February 2023 | Ms Debra Gilbert | Slough Borough Council | England & Wales | — |
| 1600620/2022 | 6 February 2023 | Mr S Guinee | Busy Bees Nurseries Limited | England & Wales | — |
| 1802554/2022 | 6 February 2023 | Mr K Aston | RM Motor Engineers Ltd t/a The Garage Howden | England & Wales | £21,602 |
| 1400605/2022 | 6 February 2023 | Mr A Sayeed | RWE Renewables Management Ltd | England & Wales | — |
| 2603111/2022 | 6 February 2023 | Miss M Pah | Mr Rob Sherwood | England & Wales | — |
| 1400632/2022 | 6 February 2023 | Mr C P Isidore | First Hampshire and Dorset Limited | England & Wales | — |
| 2300358/2022 | 6 February 2023 | L Charlesworth | The Governing Body of Dalmain Primary School and the London Borough of Lewisham | England & Wales | — |
| 2603112/2022 | 6 February 2023 | Miss M Pah | Mr Kamran Hussain | England & Wales | — |
| 3313705/2022 | 6 February 2023 | Mr C Varga | The Castle Tavern (Oxford) Ltd | England & Wales | — |
| 3311066/2022 | 6 February 2023 | — | Athlon Mobility Services UK Ltd | England & Wales | — |
| 2601259/2022 | 6 February 2023 | Mrs M Keane | Key 2 Care Ltd | England & Wales | — |
| 1403266/2022 | 6 February 2023 | Ms Kerry O’Shaughnessy | The Secretary of State for Justice | England & Wales | — |
| 1300980/2022 | 6 February 2023 | Mr. Mahmood, Lay representative | — | England & Wales | — |
| 2300254/2021 | 6 February 2023 | Mrs L Stratton | Freedom Food Limited t/a RSPCA Assured Heard by video | England & Wales | — |
| 2303200/2022 | 6 February 2023 | Miss H Patel | Lloyds Bank plc | England & Wales | — |
| 1303359/2022 | 6 February 2023 | (1) Ms D Nkodia (2) Mr A Asiegbu | Emma Bridgewater Limited | England & Wales | — |
| 3323890/2021 | 5 February 2023 | Mrs J Nwofor | HCS Domiciliary Care Ltd | England & Wales | — |
| 3322802/2021 | 5 February 2023 | Miss Collins | Boots Management Services Ltd PUBLIC PRELIMINARY HEARING | England & Wales | — |
| 3322986/2021 | 5 February 2023 | Mr M Rasalingam | Adelie food Ltd | England & Wales | — |
| 3311584/2022 | 4 February 2023 | Mr O Radu | Lexnis Group UK Ltd | England & Wales | — |
| 3306576/2022 | 4 February 2023 | R R Nagy | Gerrys Oxfordshire | England & Wales | — |
| 3304177/2022 | 4 February 2023 | Mrs M Whittaker | Octagon Medical Practice | England & Wales | — |
| 3300075/2022 | 4 February 2023 | Ms A J Hibberd | Woodstock Town Council | England & Wales | — |
| 3309098/2022 | 4 February 2023 | Miss T Langton | Theatre Tavern | England & Wales | — |
| 3312048/2021 | 3 February 2023 | Respondent: Mr P Martin (1) Mrs E Martin (2) v Achieve Lifestyle | Mr P Martin | England & Wales | — |
| 2305006/2022 | 3 February 2023 | A Ukachukwu | Mark Dobson | England & Wales | — |
| 2402810/2021 | 3 February 2023 | Mr O Mohamed | Red Fortuna Limited, trading as Ciao Baby Restaurant (in creditors voluntary liquidation) | England & Wales | — |