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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| Withdrawn | 3,592 | 14% |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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1806336/2020 | 9 March 2022 | Mrs Amanda Dewhirst | Brighouse Patent Walling Systems Limited (in voluntary liquidation) | England & Wales | £14,145 |
| 1803913/2021 | 9 March 2022 | Mrs J Morris | Adelos Limited | England & Wales | £8,094 |
| 3305308/2021 | 8 March 2022 | Ms T Barclay | Notcutts Limited | England & Wales | — |
| 3300372/2021 | 8 March 2022 | In person but assisted by Miss S Rasheva (his partner). For the | Miss R Page, from Law at Work. | England & Wales | — |
| 4110429/2021 | 8 March 2022 | Represented by Mr C Scougal, Lay representative. 20 Desmond Maguire Ltd | Represented by25 Ms R Edwards, Solicitor | Scotland | — |
| 3301248/2021 | 8 March 2022 | Mr O Winters, Paralegal For the | — | England & Wales | — |
| 3205526/2021 | 8 March 2022 | Mrs N Delgado | Tiddley Tots Day Nursery Ltd | England & Wales | — |
| 3300204/2021 |
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 |
| 8 March 2022 |
| Mr Ian Rees Phillips, of counsel For the |
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| England & Wales |
| £56,463 |
| 2204273/2021 | 8 March 2022 | Mr | Pillai Corporate Office of the House of Lords and Corporate Office of the House of Commons (Operating as the Parliamentary Digital Service) | England & Wales | — |
| 3326327/2019 | 8 March 2022 | Mr A Miah, Counsel For the | Mr M Bloom Solicitor-Partner | England & Wales | £1,143 |
| 4112395/2021 | 8 March 2022 | Mrs Sharon Stott | ’s husband)15 Ms A Barbosa (trading as | Scotland | £151 |
| 2402327/2020 | 8 March 2022 | Ms A Mensah | JC Fitness Ltd | England & Wales | — |
| 3303314/2021 | 8 March 2022 | Mr R Welton, Father to the Claimant For the | Ms T Bailey, Director | England & Wales | — |
| 3312364/2020 | 8 March 2022 | Mr D Hunting | City Plumbing Holdings Ltd | England & Wales | — |
| 2502329/2022 | 8 March 2022 | Mrs J Russell | Student Loans Company HELD AT: Middlesbrough | England & Wales | — |
| 4109839/2021 | 8 March 2022 | Ms Y Daly | Ltd (In Liquidation) | Scotland | — |
| 1800839/2022 | 8 March 2022 | Mrs W Atkinson | Ecospill Ltd | England & Wales | — |
| 2307263/2020 | 8 March 2022 | — | Asda Stores Limited | England & Wales | — |
| 4111019/2021 | 8 March 2022 | Member: Ms P McColl Tribunal Member: Mr A Grant Miss D Smith | Represented by: Ms L Smith – Sister Home Appliance Engineers Ltd | Scotland | £6,479 |
| 4112441/2021 | 8 March 2022 | Mr. S Gubby | James Donaldson & Sons Ltd | Scotland | — |
| 3302728/2021 | 8 March 2022 | Mr Mohammed Infas Abdul JABBAR | 1 Huckleberry’s Chicken Limited 2 Fastfood Recruitment Limited | England & Wales | £26,210 |
| 1303688/2021 | 8 March 2022 | KYLE CLAYTON-BARKER | Nationwide Silo Access Services Limited | England & Wales | — |
| 2304809/2021 | 8 March 2022 | Mr L Kosky & Others | Basketdrop Ltd | England & Wales | — |
| 1800096/2022 | 7 March 2022 | Miss H L Darley | Cheswold Park Hospital | England & Wales | — |
| 4109213/2021 | 7 March 2022 | Mr G Brown | – Solicitor XPO Supply Chain UK Limited | Scotland | — |
| 4111382/2021 | 7 March 2022 | (sitting alone)10 Mr R Graham | Off-World Industries Ltd | Scotland | £1,489 |
| 4107779/2020 | 7 March 2022 | Gardner | Trip Air Ticketing (UK) Ltd | Scotland | — |
| 2406321/2020 | 7 March 2022 | Mr R Melki | Bouyges E and S Contracting UK Limited | England & Wales | — |
| 2603018/2021 | 7 March 2022 | Miss A J Atkinson | Rewrite3 Group Limited | England & Wales | — |
| 2200401/2021 | 7 March 2022 | Mr. Claudius Baptiste | Network Rail Infrastructure Limited | England & Wales | — |
| 1401155/2021 | 7 March 2022 | JK represented herself and TL | — | England & Wales | £3,389 |
| 2600356/2021 | 7 March 2022 | Mr M Goddard | IQ Digital Solutions Limited | England & Wales | — |
| 1601906/2020 | 7 March 2022 | Mr D Morris | Cryoaction Limited Heard: by video | England & Wales | — |
| 2500891/2021 | 7 March 2022 | Mr C Davison | Reveles Energy Ltd (formerly The Energy Checking Company Ltd) (In Administration) | England & Wales | — |
| 1804196/2021 | 7 March 2022 | Mr O Osifalujo | Troy Foods | England & Wales | — |
| 2206355/2021 | 7 March 2022 | In person For the | Ms R Howells (In-house legal adviser) | England & Wales | — |
| 2302203/2020 | 7 March 2022 | Mr J Rivera | Capital Staffing Services Limited | England & Wales | — |
| 2600520/2022 | 7 March 2022 | Mr. S Gilani | De Montfort University | England & Wales | — |
| 2302387/2020 | 7 March 2022 | Ms S Cruise | Zad Siadatan and Loius Siadatan Connect Nationwide Limited | England & Wales | — |
| 1402351/2021 | 6 March 2022 | Mr Ian McFerran | Whitbread Group plc | England & Wales | — |
| 3205921/2021 | 5 March 2022 | Mr John Snell | PGB Lifts Limited | England & Wales | £4,986 |
| 2204634/2021 | 5 March 2022 | Mr A. Jeganathan | Westfield (T) Hairdressing Limited t/a Toni & Guy | England & Wales | — |
| 3323444/2021 | 5 March 2022 | Mr M Foster-Burke | Operators R US | England & Wales | — |
| 3204862/2021 | 5 March 2022 | Mr S Bryson | International Airport Visual & Navigational Aids Limited | England & Wales | — |
| 3202555/2020 | 5 March 2022 | Ms H Knight | Dreamboys London Limited | England & Wales | — |
| 1306779/2020 | 4 March 2022 | in person For the | Mr Mark Shrives-Wright (solicitor) | England & Wales | — |
| 2301916/2021 | 4 March 2022 | Mr T Shead | Abellio London Limited | England & Wales | — |
| 1300291/2021 | 4 March 2022 | Mr M Hayward | Press Metal (UK) Ltd | England & Wales | £9,136 |
| 3301416/2021 | 4 March 2022 | Mr J Davies, Solicitor For the | Mr L Werenowski, Legal Representative Tribunal appointed interpreter in the Polish language | England & Wales | — |
| 2400185/2020 | 4 March 2022 | Mrs A Gannapureddy | Chester Desserts Limited | England & Wales | £38,677 |