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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| Withdrawn | 3,592 | 14% |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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3313302/2019 | 6 December 2019 | In person. For the | — | England & Wales | — |
| 2201954/2019 | 5 December 2019 | Mr D Ramos | Claridges Hotel Limited | England & Wales | — |
| 2301596/2018 | 5 December 2019 | In person but assisted by her partner Mr Caldicott For the | — | England & Wales | — |
| 2201233/2020 | 5 December 2019 | In person For | Ms Meenan - Counsel | England & Wales | — |
| 4111820/2019 | 5 December 2019 | EMPLOYMENT TRIBUNALS (SCOTLAND) Case No: 4111820/2019 Miss A McMillan | RNR Cumbernauld Limited | Scotland | — |
| 2416174/2018 | 5 December 2019 | Ms K Clayton | Affinity Medical Services Ltd & Others | England & Wales | — |
| 2201177/2019 | 5 December 2019 | Joseph England (counsel) For the | — | England & Wales | £318 |
| 4100185/2019 | 5 December 2019 | Miss K Johnstone | Represented by: Ms R Dyer -15 Strathclyde University Law Clinic M Recovery Limited |
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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| 2406078/2019 | 5 December 2019 | Mr R Upton | DHL Supply Chain Limited | England & Wales | — |
| 1600475/2018 | 5 December 2019 | Mr M O Morgan & Mr C E Pearce | [1] Celtic Fabrications Ltd [2] D.B. Engineering Ltd – in CVL [3] The Secretary of State for Business Energy & Industrial Strategy | England & Wales | — |
| 3201609/2019 | 5 December 2019 | Mr E la Borde | Ryder Ltd | England & Wales | — |
| 2415171/2018 | 5 December 2019 | — | Gardner v Stuart McBain Ltd | England & Wales | — |
| 1804225/2019 | 5 December 2019 | Katherine Stockall | Sytner Group Limited | England & Wales | — |
| 3312328/2019 | 5 December 2019 | Mrs J Evans | Nicholas Thornton t/a Sam’s Local Shopper | England & Wales | — |
| 4108624/2019 | 5 December 2019 | EMPLOYMENT TRIBUNALS (SCOTLAND) Case No: 4108624/2019 Mr C Gilchrist | Wm Morrison Supermarkets Limited | Scotland | — |
| 4107509/2019 | 5 December 2019 | EMPLOYMENT TRIBUNALS (SCOTLAND) Case No: 4107509/2019 Mr RW Matheson | West Of Scotland Housing Association Limited | Scotland | — |
| 1402403/2019 | 5 December 2019 | Mr R Allaston | Teledyne Limited | England & Wales | — |
| 4107347/2019 | 5 December 2019 | Mr P Lafferty | Carntyne Transport Company Limited | Scotland | — |
| 3200724/2020 | 5 December 2019 | Mr J. Connolly | JD Wetherspoon | England & Wales | — |
| 1804224/2019 | 5 December 2019 | Mrs C Platts | The Gourmet Cafe Wetherby Ltd | England & Wales | — |
| 1805477/2019 | 5 December 2019 | Miss C Scammell | Acis Group Ltd | England & Wales | — |
| 2410850/2019 | 5 December 2019 | Miss J Griffin | Edge Hill University | England & Wales | — |
| 2301146/2019 | 5 December 2019 | Miss S Grant | Nando’s Limited | England & Wales | — |
| 1803415/2019 | 5 December 2019 | Mr S Plaxton | City of York Council AT A PRELIMINARY HEARING | England & Wales | — |
| 4109156/2019 | 5 December 2019 | Mr C Georgiev | No appearance Fife Law Centre | Scotland | — |
| 1305769/2018 | 5 December 2019 | Miss J Kollie | Study Inn Group Ltd | England & Wales | — |
| 2301818/2019 | 5 December 2019 | Miss M Westhoff | Vinci Construction UK Limited | England & Wales | — |
| 2413460/2019 | 5 December 2019 | Mr A Hanson | WH Smith | England & Wales | — |
| 1600720/2018 | 5 December 2019 | Mr P Upton | [1] Celtic Fabrications Ltd [2] D.B. Engineering Ltd – in CVL [3] The Secretary of State for Business Energy & Industrial Strategy | England & Wales | — |
| 2401955/2019 | 5 December 2019 | Miss C Kennedy | Gray Healthcare Limited | England & Wales | — |
| 3313712/2019 | 5 December 2019 | Mr G Bancroft-Blake | Sainsbury’s Supermarkets Limited | England & Wales | — |
| 2417797/2018 | 5 December 2019 | Mr J Lavallin | British Telecommunications plc | England & Wales | — |
| 1401669/2019 | 5 December 2019 | Mrs Lambkin (Wife of the Claimant) For the | — | England & Wales | — |
| 1401697/2019 | 5 December 2019 | Mr M James | QERB Energy Ltd | England & Wales | — |
| 4110409/2019 | 5 December 2019 | Mr E Docherty | JD Thomson And Sons | Scotland | — |
| 4100031/2019 | 5 December 2019 | 69(scot) claim dismissed on withdrawal rule EMPLOYMENT TRIBUNALS (SCOTLAND) Case No 4100031/2019 Ms G Penman | Health Board | Scotland | — |
| 3312717/2019 | 5 December 2019 | Mr WN Salazar | Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust | England & Wales | — |
| 2413765/2019 | 5 December 2019 | Miss E Taylor | Ignite Gas Limited | England & Wales | — |
| 4106826/2019 | 5 December 2019 | EMPLOYMENT TRIBUNALS (SCOTLAND) Case No: 4106826/2019 Mr J Jones | McLelland Cheese Packing Limited | Scotland | — |
| 2203868/2019 | 5 December 2019 | Mrs M Garbera | Appesttat Ltd | England & Wales | — |
| 3320085/2019 | 5 December 2019 | Mr S Callan | Verex Insurance Services Ltd | England & Wales | — |
| 1401651/2019 | 5 December 2019 | In person For the | — | England & Wales | — |
| 1404631/2019 | 5 December 2019 | Mrs M Sheppard | 1) Cleaner Solutions (South West) Limited 2) Simply Laundry and Cleaning Limited | England & Wales | — |
| 1804520/2019 | 5 December 2019 | Ms J Hemming | Masternaut Limited | England & Wales | — |
| 1805070/2019 | 5 December 2019 | Mr E Ward | TLG Accountancy Services Ltd | England & Wales | — |
| 2410263/2019 | 4 December 2019 | Mrs G Jellicoe | Red Lion Parkgate Limited | England & Wales | — |
| 2602725/2019 | 4 December 2019 | Mr A Peck | Anthoney Hayre | England & Wales | — |
| 2303412/2017 | 4 December 2019 | Mrs. L. Gaidam | Voyage 1 Limited | England & Wales | — |
| 2600635/2019 | 4 December 2019 | Mr J Singh | Butt Foods Limited | England & Wales | — |
| 3201536/2019 | 4 December 2019 | Mr A Goodey | Star Amusements Limited | England & Wales | £3,942 |