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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| Withdrawn | 3,592 | 14% |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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3321215/2019 | 25 February 2022 | in person For the | — | England & Wales | — |
| 4110372/2021 | 25 February 2022 | Mr Andrew Barr | Represented by: Himself Royal Mail Group Ltd | Scotland | — |
| 4107805/2020 | 25 February 2022 | EMPLOYMENT TRIBUNALS (SCOTLAND) Case No: 4107805/2020 (V) Held by means of the Cloud Video Platform on and January 2022 Employment Judge W A Meiklejohn Mr J Harvey | Dumbarton Golf Club | Scotland | — |
| 1309493/2020 | 25 February 2022 | in person – and Mr Alistair Candlish to support For the | Mr Paul Clarke, consultant | England & Wales | — |
| 3314094/2021 | 25 February 2022 | Mr K Hussain | United Parcel Service Ltd | England & Wales | — |
| 1303594/2021 | 25 February 2022 | Mr I Ahmed (Counsel) For the | — | England & Wales | — |
| 2201706/2020 | 25 February 2022 | Mr J Lewis-Bale, Counsel For the | — | England & Wales | £46,583 |
| 1301225/2021 | 25 February 2022 | Mr R Cukierda |
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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| 3300394/2021 | 25 February 2022 | Mr David Flood, Counsel For the | Mr Richard Wayman - Counsel | England & Wales | — |
| 2307604/2020 | 25 February 2022 | Mr Adam Turk | Ocado Central Services Limited | England & Wales | — |
| 3303201/2020 | 25 February 2022 | Mr Barry Connor | Clancy Docwra Limited | England & Wales | — |
| 2200274/2021 | 25 February 2022 | Miss M. Francis | Morgan Sindall Property Services Limited | England & Wales | — |
| 1804181/2021 | 25 February 2022 | Mr M A Jamil | Davies Group Ltd | England & Wales | £1,328 |
| 2600063/2021 | 25 February 2022 | Mr W Hibbert | Fortitude Nicsa Global Ltd Heard: Via Cloud Video Platform in the Midlands (East) Region | England & Wales | — |
| 2304878/2020 | 25 February 2022 | Mr I Avasiloaia | Collider Limited (In Voluntary Liquidation) | England & Wales | £10,744 |
| 1803453/2021 | 25 February 2022 | Mr P Jackson | Leeds City Council | England & Wales | — |
| 1405709/2020 | 25 February 2022 | Mrs S Edwards | Jungle Mania Soft Play Ltd | England & Wales | £6,640 |
| 2408918/2020 | 25 February 2022 | Mr A Luckham | The Christie NHS Foundation Trust Heard: in private by CVP | England & Wales | — |
| 1302266/2019 | 25 February 2022 | Mr D Jenkins | ISS Facility Services Restoration | England & Wales | — |
| 1300883/2021 | 25 February 2022 | Ms P Watson | Archangel Ltd | England & Wales | £2,031 |
| 4112081/2021 | 25 February 2022 | EMPLOYMENT TRIBUNALS (SCOTLAND) Case Number: 4112081/2021 Mr J Measures | Unity Well Integrity Europe Limited | Scotland | — |
| 4110455/2021 | 25 February 2022 | Ms Irene Sneddon | Erskine Hospital | Scotland | — |
| 2402115/2021 | 25 February 2022 | Ms S Bates | Creative Support Limited | England & Wales | — |
| 2305373/2020 | 25 February 2022 | Ms K. Howe | Fancy Dress ( Crawley) Limited | England & Wales | £677 |
| 2415143/2021 | 25 February 2022 | Miss M McDonough | Enabling Futures | England & Wales | — |
| 3326176/2019 | 25 February 2022 | Mr L Busca | Rygor Group Limited Mr Terry Craven Mr Christopher Baker Mr Sean Joyce Mr Ross Heffernan Mr Nigel Clear | England & Wales | — |
| 2301813/2020 | 25 February 2022 | Ms C Key | The Ship At Conyer Limited | England & Wales | — |
| 2203505/2021 | 25 February 2022 | Mr J Harwood | Liquid Capital Markets Ltd | England & Wales | — |
| 1802388/2021 | 25 February 2022 | Mr T Mushawatu | Northern Life Care Limited Heard: In Leeds | England & Wales | — |
| 2600586/2021 | 25 February 2022 | Mr B Wheatley (Deceased) | Urban Splash Modular Limited | England & Wales | — |
| 2207386/2021 | 25 February 2022 | Mr M. Cortizo | Global Coffee Shops Ltd | England & Wales | — |
| 2302350/2019 | 24 February 2022 | Ms S Percival | A&P Tools and Products Ltd (in liquidation) R1 FG Motorsports Limited (in liquidation) R2 Certa Precision Engineering Ltd (R3) Secretary of State for Business and Energy (R4) | England & Wales | £31,295 |
| 2600333/2022 | 24 February 2022 | Mr. S Bhojani-Lynch | Decision Vision Ltd. | England & Wales | — |
| 2402621/2021 | 24 February 2022 | Mr Guy Greenhalgh | Mayo Civil Engineering Limited | England & Wales | — |
| 3304187/2020 | 24 February 2022 | Mr Mark Kersley | Airvending Limited | England & Wales | — |
| 2302306/2021 | 24 February 2022 | Miss Alisha Harris | Group Momentum (Salons) Ltd | England & Wales | £3,086 |
| 2206525/2021 | 24 February 2022 | in person For the | Mr T. Stephenson (solicitor) | England & Wales | — |
| 2305134/2021 | 24 February 2022 | Mr C H Au-Yeung | Kim’s Service Ltd | England & Wales | — |
| 1802798/2021 | 24 February 2022 | Ms R Stennett (formerly Shipley) | Royal Mail Group Limited | England & Wales | — |
| 3312905/2021 | 24 February 2022 | Mrs D K Basra | Sainsbury’s Supermarkets Limited | England & Wales | — |
| 2603628/2020 | 24 February 2022 | Mr S Hussain | N & N Carpets and Flooring Ltd | England & Wales | £24,108 |
| 2600008/2022 | 24 February 2022 | Mr P Barnes | Platinum UK Choices Ltd | England & Wales | — |
| 3206337/2021 | 24 February 2022 | Mr O Abdelkader Ragheb | Transport for London | England & Wales | — |
| 3205943/2021 | 24 February 2022 | Mr G Hough | West Ham United Football Club Limited | England & Wales | — |
| 3205222/2021 | 24 February 2022 | Mrs G Alsela | Andrew Georgiu | England & Wales | — |
| 3311788/2020 | 24 February 2022 | In Person For the | — | England & Wales | — |
| 2414234/2021 | 24 February 2022 | Mr S O Alaka | Bluegrain/ Knight Bridge Construction | England & Wales | — |
| 2402765/2021 | 24 February 2022 | Mr S Tucker | Proman UK Ltd | England & Wales | — |
| 3311349/2020 | 24 February 2022 | Mr Ben Revell | Past Pleasures Limited | England & Wales | — |
| 2305540/2019 | 24 February 2022 | Mr G. Guerrero | Holiday Estates Limited t/a New Cross Inn Hostel | England & Wales | £16,447 |