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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| Withdrawn | 3,592 | 14% |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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2405802/2020 | 3 September 2021 | Mr M Hartley | D Hollowell & Sons Limited | England & Wales | £0 |
| 2301647/2019 | 3 September 2021 | Mr M Rayner | ABF The Soldiers’ Charity Heard | England & Wales | — |
| 3202402/2020 | 3 September 2021 | Mr M Najeeb | Food Containers Manufacturing UK Ltd | England & Wales | £18,321 |
| 2602679/2020 | 3 September 2021 | Mr I Bates | We Are Ghost Limited | England & Wales | — |
| 1802285/2021 | 3 September 2021 | Mr S Corbett | CAPE Engineering Services Limited t/a Altrad Services | England & Wales | — |
| 2408951/2020 | 3 September 2021 | Mr S Crown | Baldwins Crane Hire Limited | England & Wales | — |
| 3323407/2019 | 3 September 2021 | Mrs A Lake | And Lawton Group Limited Telephone Private Preliminary Hearing (Case Management) | 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 |
| 3 September 2021 |
| Ms C Dozzell |
| TCHC Group Limited |
| England & Wales |
| £17,230 |
| 2402235/2021 | 3 September 2021 | Miss N Francis | Stripestar Limited | England & Wales | — |
| 3200790/2021 | 3 September 2021 | Mrs P Atkinson | Unisystems Freight (UK) Limited | England & Wales | £7,048 |
| 2400667/2020 | 3 September 2021 | Mr A Edwards | Troy Leisure UK Ltd | England & Wales | — |
| 2402062/2021 | 3 September 2021 | Mr P Hudson | Hales Freight Limited | England & Wales | £3,404 |
| 2601742/2021 | 3 September 2021 | Mrs. W Fall | Marston Care Ltd | England & Wales | — |
| 3303521/2020 | 3 September 2021 | Mr F Mortin, Counsel For the | — | England & Wales | — |
| 3334433/2018 | 2 September 2021 | In person For the | — | England & Wales | — |
| 3311538/2020 | 2 September 2021 | In person. For the | Miss Baldwin (Solicitor). | England & Wales | £3,000 |
| 3301268/2021 | 2 September 2021 | In person. For the | REL Storage and Logistics Limited | England & Wales | £15,841 |
| 1803192/2021 | 2 September 2021 | Mrs S Pagan | Thicket Priory Limited | England & Wales | — |
| 3300171/2021 | 2 September 2021 | Miss L Kupra | REL Storage and Logistics Limited | England & Wales | £1,000 |
| 4108074/2021 | 2 September 2021 | Mr George McNaught | S&A Kilcoyne Limited | Scotland | £0 |
| 4100397/2021 | 2 September 2021 | EMPLOYMENT TRIBUNALS (SCOTLAND) Case No: 4100397/2021 Ms J Hornby | Represented by: Ms H Donnely - Solicitor The Richmond Fellowship Scotland | Scotland | — |
| 2417970/2020 | 2 September 2021 | Mr C McPhilbin | John Crane UK Limited | England & Wales | — |
| 2401009/2021 | 2 September 2021 | Mr M Patel | Peter Fenton Equine Veterinary Practice Limited | England & Wales | £7,453 |
| 1803664/2021 | 2 September 2021 | — | Voynov v Titan Interior Solutions Ltd | England & Wales | — |
| 3312845/2020 | 2 September 2021 | Miss H Rogers | Stevenage Conference Centre Limited | England & Wales | — |
| 2201326/2021 | 2 September 2021 | Mr S Newman | Serco Limited | England & Wales | — |
| 3313340/2020 | 2 September 2021 | Miss M Di Lascio | Stevenage Conference Centre Limited | England & Wales | — |
| 3312554/2020 | 2 September 2021 | Miss M Mandemaker | Stevenage Conference Centre Limited | England & Wales | — |
| 3200714/2021 | 2 September 2021 | Mrs S Lewis | Cognita Schools Limited | England & Wales | — |
| 4108015/2020 | 2 September 2021 | EMPLOYMENT TRIBUNALS (SCOTLAND) Case No: 4108015/2020 Mr I Gibbons | Brothers of Charity | Scotland | — |
| 4107603/2021 | 2 September 2021 | EMPLOYMENT TRIBUNALS (SCOTLAND) Case No: 4107603/2021 (V) Held by means of the Cloud Video Platform on 18, and August 2021 Employment Judge W A Metklejohn Mr W Ross | Represented by: Mr G Bathgate - Solicitor Doosan Babcock Ltd | Scotland | — |
| 4103036/2020 | 2 September 2021 | EMPLOYMENT TRIBUNALS (SCOTLAND) Case No: 4103036/2020 J Demir, Legal Officer Mr M Parkinson | Represented by: Mr S Horsfield - Solicitor Blatchford Limited | Scotland | — |
| 3303013/2021 | 2 September 2021 | — | Craig v Artificial Solutions UK Ltd (in voluntary liquidation) | England & Wales | £2,275 |
| 3312934/2020 | 1 September 2021 | Mr A Johnson | Sainsbury’s Supermarkets Limited | England & Wales | — |
| 2200090/2021 | 1 September 2021 | In person and also by his father Mr McCourt For the | — | England & Wales | £4,300 |
| 1601915/2020 | 1 September 2021 | Mr R Perry | Waste and Resources Action Programme | England & Wales | — |
| 2205723/2020 | 1 September 2021 | Neither present nor represented | Mr J Dale (Solicitor) | England & Wales | — |
| 3311844/2020 | 1 September 2021 | Mr Scott Smith for himself and the other claimants. For the | Mr R Hickford (Solicitor). | England & Wales | — |
| 1807130/2020 | 1 September 2021 | Jonathan Linton | The University of Sheffield | England & Wales | — |
| 3314393/2020 | 1 September 2021 | Mr B Footer | Sibelco Co Ltd | England & Wales | — |
| 1406579/2020 | 1 September 2021 | - IN PERSON FOR THE | Sol Attendance Limited | England & Wales | £33,637 |
| 2600032/2021 | 1 September 2021 | Miss Deborah Martin | NHS Business Services Authority | England & Wales | — |
| 4100064/2020 | 1 September 2021 | ETZ 4(WR) EMPLOYMENT TRIBUNALS (SCOTLAND) Case No: 4100064/2020 Hearing by Cloud Video Platform on 24, 25, and June 2021 Employment Judge: M A Macleod Craig Waites | Represented by Mr P Hannah Solicitor Bilfinger Salamis UK Limited | Scotland | — |
| 3200671/2021 | 1 September 2021 | Mr M Shoaib | Renault Retail Group UK Ltd | England & Wales | — |
| 1803736/2021 | 1 September 2021 | Ms T Shield | Sue Bland | England & Wales | — |
| 4107653/2020 | 1 September 2021 | Mr S Goodwin | Spray Finishes Scotland Limited | Scotland | — |
| 3306416/2020 | 31 August 2021 | Mr S A Khamis | Gibbs Transport Limited | England & Wales | — |
| 3201853/2020 | 31 August 2021 | Mr Derrick Dent | Harding Bros Electrical Ltd | England & Wales | — |
| 3200779/2021 | 31 August 2021 | Mrs S Samuels | Bancroft Ltd | England & Wales | — |
| 3314904/2020 | 31 August 2021 | Ms S Platts, Counsel For the | — | England & Wales | — |