Claim pillar
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| Withdrawn | 3,592 | 14% |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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1801688/2020 | 17 September 2020 | in person (with assistance from Mrs Winn, his wife) | — | England & Wales | — |
| 3201233/2020 | 17 September 2020 | Miss P Garara | Jones Lang Lasalle Services Ltd | England & Wales | — |
| 1801809/2020 | 17 September 2020 | Mrs D Sugden | Boots Management Services Ltd | England & Wales | — |
| 3318778/2019 | 17 September 2020 | Mrs B Joshi | The Teaching Supply Agency | England & Wales | — |
| 1803449/2020 | 17 September 2020 | Mr N Goddard | Sainsbury’s Supermarkets Limited | England & Wales | — |
| 1308941/2019 | 17 September 2020 | Miss L Mays | Field Systems Design Ltd | England & Wales | — |
| 1804799/2020 | 17 September 2020 | Mr L Clack | W E Rawson Ltd | England & Wales | — |
| 2501018/2020 | 17 September 2020 | Mr R Biernat | Cumbria, Northumberland, Tyne and Wear NHS Foundation Trust VIDEO PRIVATE PRELIMINARY HEARING Heard: Remotely (by video link) |
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 |
| England & Wales |
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| 1804654/2020 | 17 September 2020 | Mr C Harding | R. O. Arnold Ltd | England & Wales | — |
| 1800987/2020 | 16 September 2020 | Miss N Booth | R1: S.T Stead Limited R2: Stephen Timothy Stead R3: Ashleigh Burke | England & Wales | — |
| 3327493/2019 | 16 September 2020 | — | Kwik-Fit (GB) Limited | Scotland | — |
| 4102451/2020 | 16 September 2020 | EMPLOYMENT TRIBUNALS (SCOTLAND) Case No: 4102451/2020 Miss J Newman | Scottish Society For The Prevention Of Cruelty To Animals | Scotland | — |
| 2409524/2020 | 16 September 2020 | Mr Scott Dolan | Eden Bar & Drink T/A Eden | England & Wales | £220 |
| 1800353/2020 | 16 September 2020 | Mr S Rathore | W M Morrison Supermarkets Limited | England & Wales | — |
| 3316005/2019 | 16 September 2020 | In person. For the | Mrs J Fry, Solicitor | England & Wales | — |
| 2503452/2019 | 16 September 2020 | Mr M Robson | NCG Corporation | England & Wales | — |
| 1804259/2020 | 16 September 2020 | Ms K Duffield | Norduct Limited | England & Wales | — |
| 1801812/2020 | 16 September 2020 | Miss A Tape | Project 11 (Marsden) Limited This has been a hearing on the papers directed by me but to which no party objected or sought a hearing. | England & Wales | £768 |
| 3200216/2020 | 16 September 2020 | Mr EY Ahmed | GIMA UK Ltd | England & Wales | — |
| 3202292/2019 | 16 September 2020 | Mr D Malyan | Direct Line Insurance Group plc | England & Wales | — |
| 1801638/2020 | 16 September 2020 | Miss E Butfoy | Black Dog Hydrotherapy Ltd | England & Wales | — |
| 3314192/2019 | 16 September 2020 | — | Arora Management Services Ltd and Heathrow Hotel Ltd | England & Wales | — |
| 1805209/2021 | 16 September 2020 | Ms Louise Lewis | The North Huddersfield Trust | England & Wales | — |
| 4104107/2020 | 16 September 2020 | Mr D Dawson | University of Aberdeen | Scotland | — |
| 1804651/2019 | 16 September 2020 | Miss G Masters | Margaret Ellis T/A Hollins Day Care | England & Wales | — |
| 2207097/2020 | 16 September 2020 | In person For the | — | England & Wales | — |
| 3313369/2019 | 16 September 2020 | Mr S Pathak | Blue Cross | England & Wales | — |
| 2416628/2019 | 16 September 2020 | Mr D Sherlock | Panad Site Services Ltd | England & Wales | — |
| 2603604/2019 | 16 September 2020 | (1) Mr G MacLean (2) Mr N McDonald (3) Mr J Onn | FS Operations Ltd | England & Wales | — |
| 3305461/2020 | 16 September 2020 | Mr Edward Drake | DRIVE Software Solutions Ltd | England & Wales | — |
| 1801026/2020 | 16 September 2020 | Jonathan Bailey | Rexel UK Limited | England & Wales | — |
| 3303420/2019 | 16 September 2020 | In person For the | — | England & Wales | — |
| 1300169/2020 | 15 September 2020 | Mr M Pollard | Percy Lane Products | England & Wales | — |
| 2414507/2019 | 15 September 2020 | Mr E Oyika | Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust | England & Wales | — |
| 1402944/2019 | 15 September 2020 | Miss Ingram (in person) For the | — | England & Wales | — |
| 1302316/2020 | 15 September 2020 | Mr T Singh | Sandwell Metropolitan Borough Council | England & Wales | — |
| 3314040/2019 | 15 September 2020 | Mr A Yassine | Alaraby Television Network Ltd | England & Wales | — |
| 1403372/2019 | 15 September 2020 | Mrs J Ogborne (1) Mrs W Blackwell (2) | Tesco Stores Ltd | England & Wales | £3,000 |
| 2411614/2019 | 15 September 2020 | Miss D Preda | Champion Mouldings Limited | England & Wales | — |
| 2202706/2020 | 15 September 2020 | Ms. A Konieczny | Ocean Saver Limited | England & Wales | £2,900 |
| 2406254/2019 | 15 September 2020 | Miss J Shaw | Interserve Catering Services Limited | England & Wales | — |
| 1802192/2020 | 15 September 2020 | Mr N Smith | Linkway Distribution Services Limited | England & Wales | — |
| 1307536/2019 | 15 September 2020 | In person For the | — | England & Wales | — |
| 1400333/2020 | 15 September 2020 | Mr P Cheesley | Royal Mail Group Limited | England & Wales | — |
| 2301465/2020 | 15 September 2020 | Mr M Chowdhury | Holland & Barrett Limited | England & Wales | — |
| 1801009/2020 | 15 September 2020 | Ms N Hatton | Yvonne Geldard [1] Tallulah’s of Saltaire Limited [2] | England & Wales | — |
| 1601105/2020 | 15 September 2020 | Mr O Cornick | Solvit (Wales) Ltd | England & Wales | — |
| 2301097/2021 | 15 September 2020 | Mr B Wheeler | Trustwave Limited | England & Wales | — |
| 1402737/2020 | 15 September 2020 | Mrs L Derham | Waterloo House | England & Wales | — |
| 1807299/2019 | 15 September 2020 | Mr S Thompson | Persimmon Homes Ltd | England & Wales | £4,941 |