Claim pillar
Tribunal Watch has indexed 40,006 UK employment tribunal cases involving unfair dismissal claims, published on gov.uk since 2017. Where compensation was recorded, the median award was £6,357 (the largest £3,449,329) across 5,389 cases. Tribunals upheld 38% of the 15,370 decided unfair dismissal claims. These cases name 30,125 distinct employers as respondents.
| Outcome | Claims | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Dismissed | 9,500 | 36% |
| Struck out | 6,576 | 25% |
| Upheld | 5,870 | 22% |
| Withdrawn | 3,600 | 13% |
| Other | 1,039 | 4% |
| Settled | 106 | 0% |
| Year | Cases | Trend |
|---|---|---|
| 2017 | 529 | |
| 2018 | 910 | |
| 2019 | 5,942 | |
| 2020 | 8,014 | |
| 2021 | 5,248 | |
| 2022 | 4,870 | |
| 2023 | 4,455 | |
| 2024 | 4,023 | |
| 2025 | 3,590 | |
| 2026 | 2,425 |
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2603078/2020 | 11 September 2020 | Mr N Degis | Staffline Recruitment Limited | England & Wales | — |
| 1804275/2020 | 11 September 2020 | — | Marshalls Group Limited | England & Wales | — |
| 2411460/2019 | 11 September 2020 | Mr P Metcalfe | Green Energy International Ltd | England & Wales | — |
| 1601309/2020 | 11 September 2020 | Miss C Budge | Summerhill Care Homes Group | England & Wales | — |
| 2601938/2020 | 10 September 2020 | Mr B Robinson, Consultant, and the Claimant For the | Mrs S Arden, Director | England & Wales | — |
| 2600874/2020 | 10 September 2020 | Mr AJ Cottingham | F P McCann Ltd | England & Wales | — |
| 2300928/2020 | 10 September 2020 | In person For the | Wing Wing International UK Ltd | England & Wales | — |
| 2501821/2018 | 10 September 2020 | Ms N Anderson & others (please see schedule below) |
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 | 51 |
| 17 | Limited (in Liquidation) | 48 |
| 18 | British Airways plc | 47 |
| 19 | Home Office | 47 |
| 20 | Secretary of State for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy | 47 |
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| 2304314/2019 | 10 September 2020 | Mr A Karapeev | Clipfine Limited OPEN PRELIMINARY HEARING | England & Wales | — |
| 2602244/2019 | 10 September 2020 | Miss KN Gentry | Nottingham CityCare Partnership | England & Wales | — |
| 2603712/2019 | 10 September 2020 | Mr K Harriman | TF & SL Textiles Limited | England & Wales | — |
| 2603224/2020 | 10 September 2020 | Mrs E Field | Van Dyk By Wildes Ltd | England & Wales | — |
| 4100172/2020 | 10 September 2020 | Mrs Gillian MacDonald | Western Isles Health Board | Scotland | — |
| 2402301/2020 | 10 September 2020 | Mr M Lamb | RAP Spiderweb | England & Wales | — |
| 2405709/2020 | 10 September 2020 | Mrs M Georgiev | UK Debt Service Limited | England & Wales | — |
| 2603060/2019 | 10 September 2020 | Mrs Kathryn McKeown | PMM Hotels Limited | England & Wales | £17,553 |
| 2602564/2019 | 10 September 2020 | Mr P Wojtowicz | Bellway Homes Ltd | England & Wales | — |
| 1402393/2019 | 10 September 2020 | Miss T Legg | Miss H Burridge | England & Wales | — |
| 3326035/2019 | 10 September 2020 | Mr T Pearson | Specialist Cars Ltd (R1) Mr Michael Donovan (R2) Mr James Ward (R3) Manjit Ahluwalia (R4) | England & Wales | — |
| 2602323/2019 | 10 September 2020 | Miss M Wilcox | Ace Cleaning Company (Leicester) Limited | England & Wales | — |
| 2201711/2020 | 10 September 2020 | Mr B Hoy | Abellio East Anglia Limited | England & Wales | — |
| 2601743/2020 | 10 September 2020 | Mr D Poznanski | The Silver X Group Limited (Silver-X Ltd) | England & Wales | — |
| 2501055/2020 | 10 September 2020 | Mr Kenneth Mould | Go North East Limited | England & Wales | £4,536 |
| 1602280/2019 | 10 September 2020 | Miss K Price | Mount Trading Company Limited (trading as Morgans of Aberystwyth) | England & Wales | — |
| 1400686/2019 | 10 September 2020 | Mr T D Lipsham | Huhtamaki (UK) Ltd | England & Wales | — |
| 3334959/2018 | 10 September 2020 | Ms Osborne First | Le Putt Ltd (in liquidation) Second Respondent: Elite Golfing Ltd (in liquidation) | England & Wales | £7,882 |
| 2406221/2020 | 10 September 2020 | Mr C Nyange | Novacoast Inc. | England & Wales | — |
| 2602612/2020 | 10 September 2020 | Mr D Baker | Leicester City Council | England & Wales | — |
| 3320038/2019 | 10 September 2020 | Ms Z Sun | Ian Wilkinson | England & Wales | — |
| 2601417/2020 | 10 September 2020 | Mr J Willows | Fastframe (europe) Ltd | England & Wales | — |
| 2304720/2019 | 9 September 2020 | Mr A Shaw | AECOM Limited PUBLIC PRELIMINARY HEARING | England & Wales | — |
| 3333387/2018 | 9 September 2020 | Ms B Mkhize | Minster Care Group Limited | England & Wales | £0 |
| 2603697/2019 | 9 September 2020 | Mr J Mountjoy | Gardner Aerospace - Consett Limited | England & Wales | — |
| 2408097/2020 | 9 September 2020 | Ms K Kivel | Tatra Rotalac Limited | England & Wales | — |
| 3321569/2019 | 9 September 2020 | Mr CP Wood | Interserve Group Ltd | England & Wales | — |
| 3334873/2018 | 9 September 2020 | Mrs E Dube | Industrial and Financial Systems | England & Wales | — |
| 2302357/2019 | 9 September 2020 | Mr I C Rango | Croydon Coaches (UK) Ltd t/a Coaches Excetera | England & Wales | £605 |
| 3321687/2019 | 9 September 2020 | Mr B Leonard | Eric's St Ives Limited | England & Wales | — |
| 1305798/2020 | 9 September 2020 | Mr. D. Sumnall | Body Power Limited | England & Wales | — |
| 3202034/2018 | 9 September 2020 | Mr James Walker | The Governors of Arnhem Wharf Primary School | England & Wales | — |
| 1801179/2020 | 9 September 2020 | Mr D Manners | Royal Mail Group Ltd PUBLIC PRELIMINARY HEARING | England & Wales | — |
| 1400514/2020 | 9 September 2020 | Mrs C May | Symmetric Systems Limited | England & Wales | — |
| 3305185/2018 | 9 September 2020 | Mr M Dennis | Norse Commercial Services Limited | England & Wales | — |
| 3334876/2018 | 9 September 2020 | Mrs R Hameed | Industrial and Financial Systems | England & Wales | — |
| 2202105/2019 | 9 September 2020 | — | Interopa Holidays Ltd | England & Wales | — |
| 1600249/2019 | 9 September 2020 | Mr K Crook | Tata Steel UK Limited | England & Wales | — |
| 1401521/2020 | 9 September 2020 | Mr D Forster | Forester Life Ltd | England & Wales | — |
| 2601719/2020 | 9 September 2020 | Miss N Rolph | ISS Mediclean Limited | England & Wales | — |
| 1308754/2019 | 9 September 2020 | Miss B Summers | AMG Consultancy Services Limited (t/a AMG Nursing and Care Services Ltd) | England & Wales | — |
| 2602865/2020 | 9 September 2020 | Mrs C Bell | Sense, The National Deafblind and Rubella Association T/A Sense | England & Wales | — |