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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| Withdrawn | 3,592 | 14% |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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2201766/2020 | 1 October 2020 | Mr T Czaplewski | Ms A Kowalik | England & Wales | £4,988 |
| 1802015/2020 | 1 October 2020 | Miss L Wozencroft | British Gas Services Limited | England & Wales | — |
| 2402428/2020 | 1 October 2020 | Mr A MacKie | BFS Group Limited | England & Wales | — |
| 1803690/2019 | 1 October 2020 | Miss K Armstrong | The Commissioners for Her Majesty’s Revenue and Customs | England & Wales | — |
| 1402223/2020 | 1 October 2020 | Miss L Fazackarley | Jobsite UK (worldwide) Limited | England & Wales | — |
| 2401801/2019 | 1 October 2020 | Miss C Jones | Keoghs LLP | England & Wales | — |
| 1300228/2019 | 1 October 2020 | Miss S Akhtar | Governors Of St Albans Catholic Primary School | England & Wales | — |
| 3312626/2019 | 1 October 2020 | Mr J Debont |
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 |
| Icomm Communications Limited |
| England & Wales |
| £421 |
| 4102523/2020 | 1 October 2020 | Mr Edward Johnston | MPMH Construction Limited | Scotland | — |
| 2409271/2020 | 1 October 2020 | Mr J Miller | Vendcare Limited & Others | England & Wales | — |
| 1402520/2019 | 1 October 2020 | Mrs C Batt | Smile Together Dental CIC | England & Wales | — |
| 1804756/2020 | 1 October 2020 | Mr B Horan | Health and Social Care Information Centre t/a NHS Digital | England & Wales | — |
| 3331848/2018 | 1 October 2020 | Mrs K McGill | Workplace Options LLC (R1) Employee Advisory Resource Limited (R2) | England & Wales | £2,937 |
| 1400040/2020 | 1 October 2020 | Mrs A Rich | The Regard Partnership Limited | England & Wales | — |
| 1403854/2019 | 1 October 2020 | Miss A Partridge | Forward Futures Limited | England & Wales | — |
| 2500292/2020 | 1 October 2020 | Miss N Fielding | EE Limited | England & Wales | — |
| 2409487/2020 | 1 October 2020 | Mr C Neary | System 3 Ltd | England & Wales | — |
| 2304827/2019 | 1 October 2020 | Ms G Williams | Maidstone & Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust OPEN PRELIMINARY HEARING | England & Wales | — |
| 1402605/2020 | 1 October 2020 | Mr A Butler | Marstons plc | England & Wales | — |
| 1403811/2020 | 1 October 2020 | Miss R Gleed | Indigo Services Group Ltd | England & Wales | — |
| 2303390/2018 | 1 October 2020 | Mr J Joseph | Bliss Travel Limited | England & Wales | — |
| 4100397/2020 | 1 October 2020 | ETZ 4(WR) EMPLOYMENT TRIBUNALS (SCOTLAND) Case No: 4100397/2020 Hearing by CVP at Edinburgh on September 2020 Employment Judge: M A Macleod Tribunal Member: L Grime Tribunal Member: C Buon Mr Terry Ryan | Gambrinus Scotland Limited | Scotland | £2,549 |
| 1400572/2020 | 1 October 2020 | Ms N Duke | Radstock Town Council | England & Wales | — |
| 1600893/2020 | 30 September 2020 | Mr C Delahunt | British Telecommunications plc | England & Wales | — |
| 3203051/2019 | 30 September 2020 | Mrs J Roldaan | Barclays Bank UK plc | England & Wales | — |
| 1300089/2020 | 30 September 2020 | Mr NA John | Honesberie Shooting Limited | England & Wales | — |
| 1601088/2020 | 30 September 2020 | Miss LA Fenning | Development Company UK Ltd | England & Wales | — |
| 2304413/2018 | 30 September 2020 | — | The Retreat Animal Rescue | England & Wales | — |
| 2501796/2018 | 30 September 2020 | Ms C Abraham & others (see below) | North Tyneside Council | England & Wales | — |
| 4103460/2020 | 30 September 2020 | Mr S McLaughlin | Represented by: Mr A Kane -10 Solicitor Polaris Vision Systems EU Ltd | Scotland | — |
| 2409178/2020 | 30 September 2020 | Mrs D Hyland | Sandcastle Care Limited | England & Wales | — |
| 2408475/2020 | 30 September 2020 | (1) Mrs L Furness (2) Miss M Ithnin (3) Mrs K Lonorgan-Smith | Jasmine’s Day Nursery Limited (in Creditors Voluntary Liquidation) | England & Wales | — |
| 1600968/2020 | 30 September 2020 | Mr R Stringfellow | UPS limited | England & Wales | — |
| 1601298/2020 | 30 September 2020 | Ms L Scourefield – Wood | Blaenmarlais Care Ltd | England & Wales | — |
| 1801882/2020 | 30 September 2020 | Mr N Hague | Richard Stables trading as The Crown Hotel | England & Wales | — |
| 2200765/2021 | 30 September 2020 | Mr Martyn Diamond Black | Alain Charles Publishing Ltd | England & Wales | — |
| 2402404/2020 | 30 September 2020 | Mr S Case | Beesley & Fildes Limited | England & Wales | — |
| 1601007/2020 | 30 September 2020 | Mr B Williams | Saunders For Service Ltd | England & Wales | — |
| 1601297/2020 | 30 September 2020 | Miss T Jones | Advance Brighter Futures | England & Wales | — |
| 1601322/2020 | 30 September 2020 | Mr A Jones | Royal Mail Group Limited | England & Wales | — |
| 1600889/2020 | 30 September 2020 | Mr A Thomas | Sharp Business Systems UK plc | England & Wales | — |
| 1601029/2020 | 30 September 2020 | Mr S Lewis | Gibraltar Nursing Home | England & Wales | — |
| 1404411/2020 | 30 September 2020 | Ms L Lambert | Wiltshire Council | England & Wales | — |
| 1601043/2020 | 30 September 2020 | Miss P Leonard | Andrew Green T/A Green Recycling | England & Wales | — |
| 2202434/2019 | 30 September 2020 | Ms M Bennett | Gratte Brothers Group Limited | England & Wales | — |
| 4101260/2020 | 30 September 2020 | Member Mrs LJ Taylor Tribunal Member Mr SF Evans Klaudia Cierpial | 15 UK Soccershop Limited | Scotland | — |
| 1601378/2020 | 30 September 2020 | Miss E Worthington | UAV Tactical Systems Ltd | England & Wales | — |
| 1403093/2020 | 29 September 2020 | Mr L Zdroana | PMP Recruitment Limited (in administration) | England & Wales | — |
| 2602581/2020 | 29 September 2020 | In person For the | Mr A Rowell, Solicitor | England & Wales | — |
| 2305457/2019 | 29 September 2020 | Dr P Orji | University of Brighton | England & Wales | — |