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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| Withdrawn | 3,592 | 14% |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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1400727/2021 | 17 December 2021 | Craig Stephens | Department for Work and Pensions | England & Wales | — |
| 1406395/2020 | 17 December 2021 | Mr P Brailey | Sibelco UK Ltd | England & Wales | £38,314 |
| 3200712/2021 | 17 December 2021 | Mr A K Tewari | Trustees of Vishwa Hindu Parishad- a registered charity | England & Wales | — |
| 2600934/2020 | 17 December 2021 | Mr M Wright | Nottinghamshire Fire and Rescue Service Heard: Remotely by CVP (Nottingham) | England & Wales | — |
| 1600006/2021 | 17 December 2021 | Miss K Walker | Phoenix Healthcare Distribution Limited | England & Wales | — |
| 3212734/2020 | 17 December 2021 | Mr B Ruddy Ms K Jarosz | Casual Dining Services Ltd (dissolved) | England & Wales | — |
| 1403879/2019 | 17 December 2021 | Mr C Staniscia-Mason - consultant For the | Mr R Fieldhouse – former club secretary | 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 |
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| 2201073/2021 | 17 December 2021 | MRS A. P. VERONA | Qatar Airways Group Qcsc | England & Wales | — |
| 4112067/2021 | 17 December 2021 | EMPLOYMENT TRIBUNALS (SCOTLAND) Case Number: 4112067/2021 Mr G McGill | Diageo Scotland Limited | Scotland | — |
| 1300988/2022 | 17 December 2021 | Mrs Christine Phillips | Cognita Schools Limited | England & Wales | — |
| 1601789/2020 | 17 December 2021 | Mr Chee Khai Tan | Wok Away Food Limited | England & Wales | — |
| 2408316/2021 | 17 December 2021 | Mr D Travers | Amberstone Security Limited | England & Wales | — |
| 2207244/2021 | 17 December 2021 | In person For the First, Third and Fourth | — | England & Wales | — |
| 1801077/2021 | 16 December 2021 | Mr M Wilkinson | Harrogate & District Travel Limited | England & Wales | — |
| 1406561/2020 | 16 December 2021 | — | Personal Track Safety Limited (in Voluntary Liquidation) | England & Wales | — |
| 2405694/2021 | 16 December 2021 | Mr A Draper | The Co-Operative Group Ltd | England & Wales | — |
| 1405729/2020 | 16 December 2021 | Miss A Senior | West Bank Residential Home Ltd T/A Buckland Care | England & Wales | — |
| 3310868/2020 | 16 December 2021 | Mr G Kane | Network Rail Infrastructure Limited | England & Wales | — |
| 2301374/2020 | 16 December 2021 | Ms A Harutunian | GlaxoSmithKline Services Unlimited | England & Wales | — |
| 1400496/2021 | 16 December 2021 | in person | Mr H Grime, solicitor | England & Wales | £13,906 |
| 1305957/2020 | 16 December 2021 | Mr M Szulc | Newsteam Group Ltd. | England & Wales | — |
| 3326037/2019 | 16 December 2021 | Mr W Qureshi | Lodge Service UK Limited v | England & Wales | £113,018 |
| 3315890/2019 | 16 December 2021 | Mr T Sheppard (Counsel). For the | — | England & Wales | — |
| 1405812/2020 | 16 December 2021 | Mr M Green, Counsel For the | — | England & Wales | — |
| 3311048/2020 | 16 December 2021 | Matthew Dorrough | Asme Engineering Ltd | England & Wales | £1,629 |
| 2501710/2020 | 16 December 2021 | Miss Yvonne House | Christopher Mallaburn t/a Hermitage Inn Hotel | England & Wales | £3,844 |
| 2203592/2021 | 16 December 2021 | Mrs. A Emmons | Ren Pomwell | England & Wales | £257 |
| 1405332/2020 | 16 December 2021 | Mr S Duvel | Hendy Group Limited | England & Wales | — |
| 1804999/2020 | 16 December 2021 | Mrs S Wordsworth | Medical and Legal Admin Services Limited | England & Wales | — |
| 1803933/2021 | 16 December 2021 | Mr M Gibbs | Enfinium Ferrybridge 1 Limited | England & Wales | — |
| 3301560/2020 | 16 December 2021 | Mrs A Berrington | The Book People Limited (in administration) | England & Wales | £49,593 |
| 1600471/2019 | 16 December 2021 | Dr Nicholas | Three Nations Dispense Limited | England & Wales | £24,611 |
| 1400345/2021 | 16 December 2021 | - MS D VAN DEN BERG FOR THE | - Ms L Fenton | England & Wales | — |
| 1304661/2018 | 16 December 2021 | Mr M Jennings | George Birchall Limited (in administration) | England & Wales | — |
| 2301819/2021 | 16 December 2021 | Miss S Rann | Shangri-La Hotels PTE Limited | England & Wales | — |
| 3300931/2021 | 15 December 2021 | Mr C Lafratta | Stripestar Limited | England & Wales | £12,480 |
| 2301760/2020 | 15 December 2021 | N Wise | Homeserve Membership Limited | England & Wales | — |
| 2406021/2020 | 15 December 2021 | Mr L Mahdavi | Excalon Limited | England & Wales | — |
| 2303330/2020 | 15 December 2021 | Ms X. Horne | Trinity College London | England & Wales | — |
| 1400026/2021 | 15 December 2021 | Ms B Sullivan | Computershare Investor Services plc | England & Wales | — |
| 3327833/2019 | 15 December 2021 | In person. For the | — | England & Wales | — |
| 2203867/2020 | 15 December 2021 | Mr A Malkov | Ten Lifestyle Management Ltd | England & Wales | — |
| 2407537/2021 | 15 December 2021 | Miss E Mahoney | Live Life Well Limited | England & Wales | — |
| 2302084/2020 | 15 December 2021 | Mr W Elbaz | Shoe Embassy London Limited (In voluntary liquidation) | England & Wales | £4,500 |
| 2602950/2020 | 15 December 2021 | Mrs D Page | The Edinburgh Woollen Mill (Group) Limited | England & Wales | — |
| 1404062/2019 | 15 December 2021 | Miss L French | Verplas Limited | England & Wales | £12,128 |
| 2409009/2021 | 15 December 2021 | Miss K S Bradley | Morrisons Gas Related Products | England & Wales | — |
| 2413947/2020 | 15 December 2021 | — | — | England & Wales | — |
| 1404143/2020 | 15 December 2021 | Both in person For the | Mr Alan Williams (Solicitor) | England & Wales | £1,422 |
| 3200887/2021 | 15 December 2021 | Mr M Wills | Starmer Limited | England & Wales | — |