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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| Withdrawn | 3,592 | 14% |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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2402621/2021 | 24 February 2022 | Mr Guy Greenhalgh | Mayo Civil Engineering Limited | England & Wales | — |
| 2206525/2021 | 24 February 2022 | in person For the | Mr T. Stephenson (solicitor) | 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 |
| 1305665/2020 | 24 February 2022 | Mr S Gittins (Counsel) For the | Premier Sheet Metal (Coventry) Ltd (In Creditors Voluntary Liquidation) | England & Wales | £59,557 |
| 2407278/2021 | 23 February 2022 | Mr E Norton | The Nottingham Label Company Limited | England & Wales | — |
| 3207241/2021 | 23 February 2022 | Mr B Baldovin | Rowan International Limited | England & Wales | — |
| 1800771/2021 | 23 February 2022 | Ms C Israel |
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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| 2411490/2021 | 23 February 2022 | G Marsden Holt | Vision Bus Ltd | England & Wales | — |
| 2301027/2014 | 23 February 2022 | — | P Basanez | England & Wales | — |
| 1601016/2021 | 23 February 2022 | Mr R Walters | Melin Homes Limited | England & Wales | — |
| 2302133/2021 | 23 February 2022 | Miss Fiona Oxborrow | My Homecare Kingston Ltd | England & Wales | — |
| 1600661/2020 | 23 February 2022 | Miss G Nkoumbou | Connect Assist Ltd | England & Wales | — |
| 3205925/2021 | 23 February 2022 | Ms S Sekyejwe | Barnet Enfield and Harringey Mental NHS Trust | England & Wales | — |
| 1600876/2021 | 23 February 2022 | Miss L Hill | Tooth Fairies Limited | England & Wales | — |
| 2501595/2021 | 23 February 2022 | Ms L McGarvey | South Tyneside Council | England & Wales | — |
| 1600014/2021 | 23 February 2022 | Miss L Caldwell | New Adventure Travel Limited | England & Wales | — |
| 2303689/2019 | 23 February 2022 | Mr R Magara, Solicitor For the | — | England & Wales | — |
| 1602519/2020 | 23 February 2022 | Ms C Ormond | Euro Foods Group Limited | England & Wales | — |
| 2302306/2020 | 23 February 2022 | Ms L Caller For the | Mr L Lewis-Nunn | England & Wales | £6,272 |
| 3205680/2021 | 23 February 2022 | Mr O Mathurin-Russell | Kone Corporation | England & Wales | — |
| 1800121/2022 | 23 February 2022 | Miss R Rayner | SIL Holdings Ltd | England & Wales | — |
| 1310681/2020 | 23 February 2022 | Mr K Haq | W H Smith Retail Holdings Limited | England & Wales | — |
| 2304627/2020 | 23 February 2022 | Miss D Edwin | Scrivens Ltd | England & Wales | — |
| 3305363/2021 | 23 February 2022 | Ms J May, Solicitor Ms G Parkin, Court Appointed Intermediary For the | Ms E Evans-Jarvis, Solicitor | England & Wales | — |
| 2301386/2019 | 22 February 2022 | Ms A Atkinson | Saxon Court Management Company Limited | England & Wales | — |
| 4104266/2020 | 22 February 2022 | — | Northwood Central UK Ltd | Scotland | £8,291 |
| 2300216/2021 | 22 February 2022 | Kamaldeep Bedi | Cullen Grummitt & Roe (UK) Limited | England & Wales | — |
| 3200554/2021 | 22 February 2022 | Miss Hulya Mehmet | The Riverside Practice | England & Wales | — |
| 2304852/2020 | 22 February 2022 | Mr Isaac Andrew | London Borough of Lewisham OPEN PRELIMINARY HEARING | England & Wales | — |
| 1401333/2021 | 22 February 2022 | Mrs T Clifford | Skills to Group Limited | England & Wales | — |
| 2406175/2020 | 22 February 2022 | 1. Mr J Sinnott 2. Ms F Bennett 3. Mr I Miah 4. Miss A Mosdell 5. Mr D Mosdell | Urbanbubble Liverpool Limited (in Creditors’ Voluntary Liquidation) | England & Wales | — |
| 1306315/2020 | 22 February 2022 | Miss M Silver | Castlebridge Hospitality Limited | England & Wales | — |
| 3315024/2020 | 22 February 2022 | — | Stonegate Pub Company Limited | England & Wales | — |
| 2601830/2021 | 22 February 2022 | Miss M Kaur | Synergy Health Managed Services Ltd | England & Wales | — |
| 2501161/2021 | 22 February 2022 | Mr S Watson | Stanley Learning Partnership | England & Wales | — |
| 3213600/2020 | 22 February 2022 | Miss A Tanai | Old Town Apartments Ltd | England & Wales | — |
| 1805240/2021 | 22 February 2022 | Miss E Beasley | GRP Building Solutions Limited (in creditors voluntary liquidation) | England & Wales | £3,017 |
| 1800853/2021 | 22 February 2022 | Miss J Johnson | Gods Corner Ltd | England & Wales | — |
| 4105531/2020 | 22 February 2022 | J Chalmers S Singh Mr David Daly | Represented by: J Colledge - Solicitor Robinsons Scotland Ltd | Scotland | — |
| 1805430/2020 | 22 February 2022 | Miss A Walker | Fera Science Ltd | England & Wales | — |
| 2300578/2021 | 21 February 2022 | Ms Z Rybanova | Voyage 1 Limited | England & Wales | — |
| 2415539/2020 | 21 February 2022 | Mrs Y Lewis | Aim Habonim | England & Wales | — |
| 3200794/2021 | 21 February 2022 | Mr Gary Forrester | Kingdom Services Group Limited | England & Wales | — |
| 3314621/2020 | 21 February 2022 | Mr D.Beemah, Counsel For | Ms E. Evans Jarvis, Senior Litigation Consultant | England & Wales | £0 |
| 3314395/2019 | 21 February 2022 | In person For the | — | England & Wales | — |
| 1600640/2021 | 21 February 2022 | Mr M Sillah | The Secretary of State for Justice | England & Wales | — |
| 1602534/2020 | 21 February 2022 | MR ADKINS (NASUWT) FOR THE | Mr Jones (consultant) | England & Wales | — |
| 1402122/2021 | 21 February 2022 | Miss A Hebden | Melissa Light | England & Wales | — |
| 4111486/2021 | 21 February 2022 | M Kearns (sitting alone)10 Mr M Allinson | Solway Transport Limited | Scotland | £1,374 |
| 3314820/2020 | 21 February 2022 | In person For the | — | England & Wales | — |