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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| Withdrawn | 3,592 | 14% |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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1600001/2019 | 8 January 2020 | Ms M. Davies-Brown | Family Friends (formerly Family Friends for 5’s to 11’s) | England & Wales | — |
| 1301893/2019 | 8 January 2020 | Ms R Healey | Nu-brite Limited | England & Wales | — |
| 3332455/2018 | 8 January 2020 | Mr J Truscott | And Norfolk and Norwich University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust CERTIFICATE OF CORRECTION | England & Wales | — |
| 2300168/2019 | 8 January 2020 | Mr. B McCrann | Virgin Atlantic Airways Limited | England & Wales | — |
| 1405325/2019 | 8 January 2020 | Miss M Currant | Frome Care Village Limited | England & Wales | — |
| 2304025/2018 | 8 January 2020 | — | Morris v The Howard Academy Trust and The Governing Body Of Temple Mill Primary School | England & Wales | — |
| 2303635/2019 | 8 January 2020 | Mr R Rose | Tesco Stores Ltd | England & Wales |
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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| 3201349/2019 | 8 January 2020 | Mr R Alam | Rossmore Hotel Limited | England & Wales | £868 |
| 1805027/2019 | 8 January 2020 | In person For the | Ms K Hatfield | England & Wales | — |
| 2300882/2018 | 8 January 2020 | Ms E Schroeder | The Environment Partnership | England & Wales | — |
| 1804844/2019 | 8 January 2020 | Mrs R Lofthouse | Countrywide Group plc | England & Wales | — |
| 1403383/2019 | 8 January 2020 | Mr S Mckechan | Wellies of Wellswood Limited | England & Wales | £7,677 |
| 2300754/2018 | 8 January 2020 | Ms N McLaren | Greenwich Care Ltd T/a Home Instead Senior Care | England & Wales | — |
| 2302823/2018 | 8 January 2020 | Mr J Rozza | Whitbread Group plc | England & Wales | — |
| 2502910/2019 | 8 January 2020 | Miss S Shaw | Calsonic Kansei | England & Wales | — |
| 1804752/2019 | 8 January 2020 | — | Bothamley v OCS Group UK Ltd | England & Wales | — |
| 4106989/2019 | 8 January 2020 | Mr R Gelpernas | No appearance NSL Limited | Scotland | £1,178 |
| 1806275/2019 | 8 January 2020 | Mr M Kaminski | Oltec Facilities Management Limited | England & Wales | — |
| 1400751/2019 | 8 January 2020 | Mr H Dymond | Micheldever Tyre Services Ltd | England & Wales | — |
| 1403616/2019 | 8 January 2020 | Mr R Brown | Bilfinger UK Limited | England & Wales | — |
| 2300468/2019 | 8 January 2020 | Mr R Hamilton | St Mungo’s Community Housing Association | England & Wales | — |
| 2302644/2019 | 8 January 2020 | Miss P Webber | Bodylink Piercing Studio Maidstone | England & Wales | — |
| 1804671/2019 | 8 January 2020 | Mr K Khan | Bradford & Brentford Warehousing Limited AT A HEARING | England & Wales | — |
| 3332172/2019 | 8 January 2020 | Miss S Nethercott, Solicitor For the | Mr T Pimento, Solicitor | England & Wales | — |
| 2304190/2019 | 8 January 2020 | Mrs C Davey | G4S Health Services (UK) Ltd | England & Wales | — |
| 2601644/2019 | 8 January 2020 | Mrs I Phoenix | United Lincolnshire Hospital NHS Trust | England & Wales | — |
| 4107428/2019 | 8 January 2020 | — | Student Loans Company Ltd | Scotland | — |
| 3201569/2019 | 8 January 2020 | Ms C Bynoe | Barts Health NHS Trust | England & Wales | — |
| 1805296/2019 | 8 January 2020 | Mr P Crofts | Speciality Steel (UK) Ltd t/a Liberty Steel | England & Wales | — |
| 1806412/2019 | 8 January 2020 | Mr G Martin | Sharp Business Systems UK plc | England & Wales | — |
| 1806332/2019 | 8 January 2020 | Mrs E Ehren | Reeds Rains Limited | England & Wales | — |
| 2502286/2019 | 8 January 2020 | Mr B Griffiths | Andrew Hughes Utility Services Limited | England & Wales | — |
| 1401319/2019 | 8 January 2020 | In person For the | Mr Towl, Consultant | England & Wales | — |
| 1806673/2019 | 8 January 2020 | Mr J Austin (solicitor) For the | — | England & Wales | — |
| 1901208/2013 | 7 January 2020 | Mr C Phillips | Welcomm Communications Ltd | England & Wales | — |
| 1803586/2019 | 7 January 2020 | Miss R Duffill | Greek Classic Gyros Limited AT A HEARING | England & Wales | £5,261 |
| 3313447/2019 | 7 January 2020 | Mr J Brennan | St Andrews Hospital | England & Wales | — |
| 4102788/2019 | 7 January 2020 | Mr W Aldridge | Represented by: In Person Alan Jackson t/a Venture Glasgow | Scotland | £2,367 |
| 4102666/2019 | 7 January 2020 | EMPLOYMENT TRIBUNALS (SCOTLAND) Case No: 4102666/2019 Mrs M Arthur | Greenock Medical Aid Society | Scotland | — |
| 2601794/2019 | 7 January 2020 | Ms D Derbyshire | The Villas Care Homes Limited | England & Wales | — |
| 1403080/2018 | 7 January 2020 | In person For the | — | England & Wales | — |
| 3323990/2019 | 7 January 2020 | Mr S Afful | R1 (First Respondent) R2 (Second Respondent) London Borough of Haringey (Third Respondent) | England & Wales | — |
| 2301567/2018 | 7 January 2020 | Miss S Gates | Faversham Laundry Limited t/a Faversham Linen Services | England & Wales | — |
| 3331988/2018 | 7 January 2020 | In person For the | Mr W Smith, Solicitor | England & Wales | — |
| 1307296/2019 | 7 January 2020 | Mrs J Downing | Rac | England & Wales | — |
| 2602991/2019 | 7 January 2020 | Mr B Strange | J & B Autos Limited | England & Wales | — |
| 4106445/2019 | 7 January 2020 | EMPLOYMENT TRIBUNALS (SCOTLAND) Case No: 4106445/2019 Miss I Alabaster | J & L Leisure Ltd, T/a Whiskers Wine Cafe | Scotland | — |
| 1801659/2019 | 7 January 2020 | The Claimant did not attend | Harrogate & District Travel Limited | England & Wales | — |
| 4111850/2019 | 7 January 2020 | EMPLOYMENT TRIBUNALS (SCOTLAND) Case No: 4111850/2019 Mr A Cheng | The National Society for the Prevention Of Cruelty To Children | Scotland | — |
| 2414960/2019 | 7 January 2020 | Mrs E Earnshaw | Amcare Ltd | England & Wales | — |