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| Withdrawn | 3,592 | 14% |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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1305238/2020 | 11 August 2020 | Mr S Marsden | Baxi | England & Wales | — |
| 1802228/2020 | 11 August 2020 | Miss M Sharp | Playtopia Limited (in Voluntary Liquidation) | England & Wales | — |
| 3324760/2019 | 11 August 2020 | In person For the | — | England & Wales | £7,709 |
| 2403541/2020 | 11 August 2020 | Miss O Sohail | Radisson Hotel Manchester Limited t/a BLU Manchester Airport | England & Wales | — |
| 3201006/2020 | 11 August 2020 | Mrs C Ganiza | Oyo Technology and Hospitality UK Limited | England & Wales | — |
| 2406046/2020 | 11 August 2020 | Mr J Parkes | Mulgrew Haulage Limited | England & Wales | — |
| 3324380/2019 | 11 August 2020 | Mr Rizwan Ali | British Telecommunications plc | England & Wales | — |
| 2300766/2020 | 11 August 2020 | Mr D Pitino | Restaurant Trading Management Ltd (in liquidation) |
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.
| 51 |
| 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 |
| £2,569 |
| 3305279/2021 | 11 August 2020 | Miss Maria Walls | Loizou Restaurants Ltd | England & Wales | — |
| 1802798/2020 | 11 August 2020 | Mrs L Marrison | Coates Solicitors Limited | England & Wales | — |
| 4101324/2020 | 11 August 2020 | 69(scot) claim dismissed on withdrawal rule EMPLOYMENT TRIBUNALS (SCOTLAND) Case No: 4101324/2020 Ms K Goodwin | Represented by: Mr B McLaughlin Unionline Solicitors Leisure And Culture Dundee | Scotland | — |
| 3201571/2019 | 11 August 2020 | Mr J Chepinski | David Phillips (Rental) Limited | England & Wales | — |
| 1406350/2019 | 11 August 2020 | Mrs L Woodley | St George’s Hospital Ltd | England & Wales | — |
| 2205091/2019 | 11 August 2020 | — | University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust | England & Wales | — |
| 1401042/2019 | 11 August 2020 | Miss R Capper | W J Nigh and Sons Ltd | England & Wales | — |
| 1403503/2018 | 11 August 2020 | Mrs S Hodgson-Jones | Ministry of Defence | England & Wales | — |
| 1400111/2020 | 11 August 2020 | Miss B Coe | Canford School Ltd | England & Wales | — |
| 3307421/2018 | 11 August 2020 | In person Interpreter: Mr N Jones For the | Mr J Gilbert (consultant) | England & Wales | £1,777 |
| 1403150/2020 | 11 August 2020 | Mrs M Furgol | Suez Recycling and Recovery UK Ltd | England & Wales | — |
| 1803655/2019 | 11 August 2020 | Ms D Leigh-Egan | Hull University Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust PUBLIC HEARING Heard: BY CVP On: 1 June 2020 | England & Wales | — |
| 2413946/2019 | 11 August 2020 | Mr P Barker | Toyota Motors Manufacturing UK Limited | England & Wales | — |
| 3304265/2018 | 11 August 2020 | Mr T Oliver | British Airways plc | England & Wales | — |
| 2601997/2019 | 11 August 2020 | Ms S Basra | Leicester City Council | England & Wales | — |
| 1803697/2020 | 11 August 2020 | Mr L Burdekin | Colin Sharp | England & Wales | — |
| 2601948/2020 | 11 August 2020 | Mr L Docherty | DHL International (UK) Limited | England & Wales | — |
| 2602496/2020 | 11 August 2020 | Mrs S Jones | Lionbridge Technologies Inc | England & Wales | — |
| 1308977/2019 | 11 August 2020 | Mr S Chivers | Ministry Of Defence Guard Services | England & Wales | — |
| 2408520/2020 | 11 August 2020 | Miss R Nicholson | Georgia Whittle | England & Wales | — |
| 1802984/2020 | 10 August 2020 | Miss E Benton | Motorscrubber Ltd | England & Wales | — |
| 1602388/2019 | 10 August 2020 | Ms C Short | Ms L Matthews | England & Wales | — |
| 1400811/2019 | 10 August 2020 | Mr S Leach Mr L Powell | Colas Ltd | England & Wales | — |
| 1802905/2020 | 10 August 2020 | Mr R Feitor | Paul and Hannah Ireland (trading as Call a Car) AT A PRELIMINARY HEARING | England & Wales | — |
| 1305021/2020 | 10 August 2020 | Mrs C McHale | The Governing Body Of The Lighthouse Trust Ta New Ford Academy | England & Wales | — |
| 1600387/2020 | 10 August 2020 | Miss B Lawless | Awelon Healthcare | England & Wales | — |
| 2303965/2019 | 10 August 2020 | Mr S Al-Ansari | The Quilliam Foundation Ltd | England & Wales | — |
| 1802191/2020 | 10 August 2020 | Miss J Ngyere | South West Yorkshire Partnership NHS Trust | England & Wales | — |
| 2500828/2020 | 10 August 2020 | Ms L Ferry | Glanbia Performance Nutrition | England & Wales | — |
| 2406020/2020 | 10 August 2020 | Mr D Lydon | Kingdom Services Group Limited | England & Wales | — |
| 1400829/2020 | 10 August 2020 | Mr R Lynn | GP Sales t/a DMI Finance | England & Wales | — |
| 2303578/2019 | 10 August 2020 | Unite the union on behalf of 10 others, Mr D Osman, Ms M E Felices Romo, Ms Pamela Saunders, Ms Angela Marke, Miss Etta Ngobeh and Miss Kajol Kochar | Advising Communities (in creditors’ voluntary liquidation) | England & Wales | — |
| 1403053/2020 | 10 August 2020 | Mr J Eaton | Courts Design Ltd | England & Wales | — |
| 1600854/2019 | 10 August 2020 | Mr D Gazzard | Natural Resources Wales | England & Wales | — |
| 1403887/2018 | 10 August 2020 | Mr I Minchella | Cheltenham Ladies College | England & Wales | — |
| 2406043/2020 | 10 August 2020 | Ms M Morgan | Close Brothers Asset Management | England & Wales | — |
| 2400991/2020 | 10 August 2020 | Mr A Cardwell | TRU (Transitional Rehabilitation Unit) Limited | England & Wales | — |
| 1802465/2020 | 10 August 2020 | Mr S Isgate-Stone | The Lairgate In Beverley Limited | England & Wales | — |
| 3303975/2020 | 10 August 2020 | Mrs J Hulatt | LSI Independent Utility Brokers Ltd t/a LSI Energy | England & Wales | — |
| 1304763/2020 | 10 August 2020 | Mr C Hemming | Greene King Retail Services Limited | England & Wales | — |
| 1800410/2020 | 10 August 2020 | Ms A Chapman | The Sheffield College | England & Wales | — |