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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 15,215 decided unfair dismissal claims. These cases name 29,766 distinct employers as respondents.
| Outcome | Claims | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Dismissed | 9,397 | 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| Withdrawn | 3,592 | 14% |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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1400177/2025 | 19 November 2025 | C Kelsey | Plankbridge Limited RECORD OF A PRELIMINARY HEARING | England & Wales | — |
| 3314513/2022 | 19 November 2025 | Ms J Littlewood | South East Coast Ambulance Service NHS Foundation Trust | England & Wales | — |
| 8000693/2025 | 18 November 2025 | B Morrison | Brimmond Limited | Scotland | — |
| 6007958/2024 | 18 November 2025 | Shaun McGrath | Matthew Thomas Shaw | England & Wales | £9,991 |
| 6000867/2025 | 18 November 2025 | Ms S J Marley | Alexander Albert Limited t/a Nouveau Legal | England & Wales | — |
| 2502032/2024 | 18 November 2025 | Mrs D Clarke | Creative Management Services Limited Heard at Newcastle Employment Tribunal Sitting at: Civic Centre | England & Wales | — |
| 6021229/2024 | 18 November 2025 | Mr H Blumire | Chief Constable of Bedfordshire Police |
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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| 6025111/2025 | 18 November 2025 | A Raza | Evolve Guarding Solutions, | England & Wales | — |
| 6012871/2024 | 18 November 2025 | Mr Graham Jephcote | Emma’s Country Cakes Limited | England & Wales | — |
| 2305732/2023 | 18 November 2025 | Miss. E. Verissimo | Nicoll Road Nursery Limited | England & Wales | — |
| 6025144/2025 | 18 November 2025 | Mr. J. Borland | Peacocks medical group | England & Wales | — |
| 6007814/2024 | 18 November 2025 | Mr W Jablonski | Natures Way Foods Ltd | England & Wales | — |
| 2307507/2024 | 18 November 2025 | — | Pajetat v OCS UK&I Ltd | England & Wales | — |
| 3305394/2024 | 18 November 2025 | Mr N Hussain | BM Coaches and Rental Ltd | England & Wales | — |
| 3312695/2023 | 18 November 2025 | Mr D Marian-Pillai (Solicitor) For the | IK14 Restaurants Ltd (In Voluntary Liquidation) | England & Wales | £74,975 |
| 3300415/2025 | 18 November 2025 | Mr H Smith Langridge | Fusion Consulting Group Limited | England & Wales | £1,320 |
| 6019039/2024 | 18 November 2025 | Mr Abdullahi Aden | St George’s University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust | England & Wales | £2,305 |
| 6018840/2024 | 18 November 2025 | Charlotte Hale | J2 Partners Limited | England & Wales | — |
| 6019238/2024 | 18 November 2025 | Mrs L Paisley | Blue Tiger Coffee Ltd | England & Wales | — |
| 6027436/2025 | 18 November 2025 | Mrs Z Blackburn | Wm Morrison Supermarkets Limited | England & Wales | — |
| 6004450/2025 | 17 November 2025 | Mr Sukhdeep Ruprah | Competitive Cleaning Services Ltd | England & Wales | — |
| 3300702/2025 | 17 November 2025 | Mr. W. Maseke | 1) Telefonica UK Ltd. 2) O2 | England & Wales | — |
| 6000029/2024 | 17 November 2025 | Wayne Hammond | Asda Stores Limited | England & Wales | £3,712 |
| 3308764/2024 | 17 November 2025 | Miss L Thompson | Sciensus Pharma Services Limited RECORD OF A PUBLIC PRELIMINARY HEARING | England & Wales | — |
| 3301105/2024 | 17 November 2025 | Mrs Louise O'Riordan | Stonbury Limited RECORD OF A PUBLIC PRELIMINARY HEARING | England & Wales | — |
| 1603693/2024 | 17 November 2025 | Ms M Tams | HM Prison and Probation Service | England & Wales | — |
| 6006807/2024 | 17 November 2025 | Miss Lauren Campbell | The Mayor & Burgesses of the London Borough of Merton | England & Wales | — |
| 6002018/2025 | 17 November 2025 | S Walsh | Frank King (Wigan) Limited | England & Wales | — |
| 6009349/2024 | 17 November 2025 | Miss S Taylor | Gursirat Supermarket Ltd | England & Wales | £5,010 |
| 6020737/2024 | 17 November 2025 | Ms T Fairclough | St Helens Metropolitan Borough Council | England & Wales | — |
| 6019715/2025 | 17 November 2025 | Mr C McCutcheon | Crucial Solutions (NE) Limited – In Voluntary Liquidation | England & Wales | £32,758 |
| 6002734/2025 | 17 November 2025 | Mr S Jones | CW Edwards Transport Ltd HELD AT: Liverpool (by video over CVP) | England & Wales | £6,050 |
| 3302814/2024 | 17 November 2025 | In person For the | OBS Medics Limited | England & Wales | £6,357 |
| 2307066/2023 | 16 November 2025 | Mr Beresford Walker | Wincanton Group Limited | England & Wales | — |
| 2500585/2025 | 15 November 2025 | Miss K Rowley & Miss B Myers | Jacob Bordon | England & Wales | — |
| 1402452/2024 | 14 November 2025 | - NO ATTENDANCE FOR THE | Sol Attendance Limited | England & Wales | £88 |
| 1604382/2024 | 14 November 2025 | Mr M Thomas | Cardiff Council | England & Wales | — |
| 2200225/2024 | 14 November 2025 | Mr A M Said | The Department of Health and Social Care | England & Wales | — |
| 2402393/2024 | 14 November 2025 | Mr M Armstrong | The Secretary of State for Justice | England & Wales | — |
| 2600001/2023 | 14 November 2025 | Mrs Limara Davies | Active 8 Managed Technologies Limited | England & Wales | — |
| 8002351/2025 | 14 November 2025 | Mr C Wallis | Venesky-Brown Recruitment Limited st | Scotland | — |
| 3303005/2024 | 14 November 2025 | In person For the | — | England & Wales | — |
| 2302158/2023 | 14 November 2025 | Mr I Ul-Haq | Transport UK London Bus Ltd | England & Wales | — |
| 6006901/2024 | 14 November 2025 | Mr B Jameson | Enterprise Rent A Car UK Ltd | England & Wales | — |
| 3303084/2024 | 14 November 2025 | Ms S Maskell | Coca-Cola Europacific Partners | England & Wales | — |
| 3304181/2024 | 14 November 2025 | In person For | Non-attendance | England & Wales | £7,862 |
| 3304968/2023 | 14 November 2025 | Stuart Graham | Covea Insurance Services Limited | England & Wales | — |
| 6000589/2025 | 14 November 2025 | Miss Jing Zhang | Asda Express Limited | England & Wales | — |
| 6002859/2025 | 14 November 2025 | M Hawley | Galloways Society for the Blind | England & Wales | — |
| 6026556/2025 | 14 November 2025 | Mr D Roberts | Ceir PG Cars Limited | England & Wales | £31,117 |