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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| Withdrawn | 3,592 | 14% |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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2304830/2019 | 29 October 2020 | Mr F Wildman For the | — | England & Wales | £21,116 |
| 2305119/2019 | 29 October 2020 | Mrs C Cretan | Mr A Al-Chalabi | England & Wales | — |
| 1308416/2019 | 29 October 2020 | Ms. R. Sterling | Britchem Products (UK) Limited | England & Wales | £4,371 |
| 1307351/2020 | 29 October 2020 | Mr A Masterson | ISS UK Limited | England & Wales | — |
| 4102683/2020 | 29 October 2020 | 69(scot) claim dismissed on withdrawal rule EMPLOYMENT TRIBUNALS (SCOTLAND) Case No: 4102683/2020 Mrs G Dove | Balhousie Care Ltd | Scotland | — |
| 4112262/2019 | 29 October 2020 | Mr C Baird | Represented by:15 Ms Morrison – Strathclyde Law Clinic SBT Builders | Scotland | — |
| 4102575/2020 | 29 October 2020 | Mr W Stafford | Hill Glasgow Ltd | Scotland | £23,332 |
| 2400026/2020 | 28 October 2020 | Ms M Rankin |
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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| 3324149/2019 | 28 October 2020 | Adrian Sajero | LHR Airports Limited | England & Wales | — |
| 1404180/2019 | 28 October 2020 | Mr Daniel Phelps | Dorset and Wiltshire Fire and Rescue Service | England & Wales | £6,765 |
| 1403098/2019 | 28 October 2020 | Miss P Mall | Mrs Lacia Pearce T/A Crowning Glorie | England & Wales | — |
| 3325511/2019 | 28 October 2020 | Ms L Eaton (family friend) For the | Mr Stephen Meeks (Group Chairman) | England & Wales | £3,781 |
| 2206852/2018 | 28 October 2020 | Ms L Robinson, Counsel For the | — | England & Wales | — |
| 4104764/2020 | 28 October 2020 | Mr I Allan | Alexander Gatey & Co Ltd (in Voluntary Liquidation) | Scotland | £6,600 |
| 1403083/2019 | 28 October 2020 | Dev Bahadur Khadka | Saiham & Soikat Trading Ltd | England & Wales | £2,004 |
| 4104771/2020 | 28 October 2020 | Mr W McCrum | Alexander Gatey & Co Ltd (in Voluntary Liquidation) | Scotland | £6,000 |
| 1404754/2020 | 28 October 2020 | Miss C Fletcher | CarShop | England & Wales | — |
| 4104772/2020 | 28 October 2020 | Mrs V Ramsay | Alexander Gatey & Co Ltd (in Voluntary Liquidation) | Scotland | £2,073 |
| 2304847/2019 | 28 October 2020 | Mr Atta Kwakwa | Ketra Logistics Limited | England & Wales | £800 |
| 3201462/2020 | 28 October 2020 | Mr C Hilton | Hodgson Automative LLP | England & Wales | — |
| 4103222/2020 | 28 October 2020 | — | Electro-Mechanical Assembly Ltd | Scotland | — |
| 4104769/2020 | 28 October 2020 | Mr J MacKenzie | Alexander Gatey & Co Ltd (in Voluntary Liquidation) | Scotland | £4,797 |
| 1306486/2019 | 28 October 2020 | Mr M Jackson, Counsel For the | — | England & Wales | — |
| 2411064/2019 | 28 October 2020 | Ms J Mehta | Hill Eckersley & Co Limited | England & Wales | — |
| 3321367/2019 | 28 October 2020 | Mr D Kuma | Asda Stores Limited | England & Wales | — |
| 2304402/2019 | 28 October 2020 | Mr Trebilcook | Royal Borough of Greenwich | England & Wales | — |
| 1601483/2020 | 28 October 2020 | Mr. A.D. Morgan-Jones | Jelthat Ltd trading as Newport Mazda | England & Wales | — |
| 2300982/2020 | 28 October 2020 | Ms N Hanis | Promo Concepts Ltd | England & Wales | — |
| 1300221/2020 | 28 October 2020 | Mr H Cho | Korea Foods Company Ltd | England & Wales | — |
| 2302724/2019 | 28 October 2020 | — | Govia Thameslink Railway Ltd | England & Wales | — |
| 2303255/2019 | 28 October 2020 | — | On the Mark Consultancy Ltd | England & Wales | £995 |
| 3335276/2018 | 28 October 2020 | In person For the First | — | England & Wales | — |
| 1406398/2019 | 28 October 2020 | Mr M McCance | Cherry Orchards Care Ltd | England & Wales | — |
| 1302101/2019 | 27 October 2020 | Dr R Ibakakombo – Lay Representative For the | Mr T Gilbart - Counsel | England & Wales | — |
| 1804847/2019 | 27 October 2020 | In person For the | — | England & Wales | — |
| 3326235/2019 | 27 October 2020 | Mr L McAllister, husband For the | — | England & Wales | — |
| 1309026/2019 | 27 October 2020 | in person For the | Ms J Holliday, Legal Executive | England & Wales | — |
| 1304761/2020 | 27 October 2020 | Miss E Greenwood | North Staffordshire Combined Healthcare NHS Trust | England & Wales | — |
| 4101956/2020 | 27 October 2020 | Mr G Gibson | XPO Logistics | Scotland | — |
| 1400701/2020 | 27 October 2020 | Mr MacPhail. counsel | — | England & Wales | — |
| 2402971/2020 | 27 October 2020 | Mr S Samuel | Service Solutions Direct Limited | England & Wales | — |
| 2202898/2019 | 27 October 2020 | Ms Odoe (paralegal) For the | Mr Chadwick (employment law consultant) | England & Wales | — |
| 4114942/2019 | 27 October 2020 | ETZ 4(WR) IN THE EMPLOYMENT TRIBUNAL (SCOTLAND) AT EDINBURGH Judgment of the Employment Tribunal in Case No: 4114942/2019 (A) Issued Following Open Preliminary Hearing Held at Edinburgh via the Cloud Based Video Platform on th October 2020 at am Employment Judge J G d’Inverno Mr S Beech | Lothian Buses Limited | Scotland | — |
| 1305547/2019 | 27 October 2020 | Mr Rhys Johns, counsel | Mrs Michele Peckham, solicitor | England & Wales | — |
| 1802901/2020 | 27 October 2020 | Mr Z Ali | Freco Cakes Limited | England & Wales | £12,845 |
| 2500037/2020 | 27 October 2020 | Mr S Rayner | NHS Property Services Limited | England & Wales | — |
| 1806298/2019 | 27 October 2020 | Mr D Martin | Scot Group Ltd T/A Thrifty Car and Van Rental | England & Wales | £5,997 |
| 2413721/2019 | 27 October 2020 | Mr N Sabar | SER Staffing Ltd | England & Wales | £1,992 |
| 2603574/2019 | 27 October 2020 | Mr J Prastalo | Switch Up CIC | England & Wales | — |
| 2413462/2019 | 27 October 2020 | Mrs I Jastrzebska | Chelsea Childrenswear Limited | England & Wales | £4,506 |