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| Withdrawn | 3,592 | 14% |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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3314177/2019 | 11 November 2019 | Miss L Arnold | Brand Windows Limited | England & Wales | — |
| 3303671/2019 | 10 November 2019 | Mr R Farrar | Vogal Group | England & Wales | — |
| 1600083/2017 | 9 November 2019 | Mr John James | The Secretary of State for Dept of the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs | England & Wales | — |
| 2405603/2019 | 9 November 2019 | Mr J Williams | Securafence Limited | England & Wales | — |
| 2413288/2018 | 9 November 2019 | Mrs C Barrow | Petre Tucker And Partners Ltd t/a My Dentist | England & Wales | — |
| 2411009/2019 | 9 November 2019 | Mr G Harland | Dixons Carphone plc | England & Wales | — |
| 1803652/2019 | 9 November 2019 | — | Arnold Clark Automobiles Ltd and Mr H Steventon | England & Wales | — |
| 2410108/2018 |
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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| 2402139/2019 | 9 November 2019 | Mr A Philliskirk | Oldham Athletic (2004) Association Football Club Limited | England & Wales | — |
| 2410462/2019 | 9 November 2019 | Mrs D Scrivens | Swift Dental Laboratory Limited | England & Wales | — |
| 2411129/2019 | 9 November 2019 | Mr M Gerrard | Sovini Property Services | England & Wales | — |
| 2414953/2018 | 9 November 2019 | Mrs R Huntley Jacobs | Express Mortgage Services Ltd & Others | England & Wales | — |
| 1600285/2019 | 9 November 2019 | Ms C. Cole | Mr. N. Ismael trading as Honey Pots | England & Wales | £7,684 |
| 2400168/2019 | 9 November 2019 | Mr N Robertson-Williams | United Response | England & Wales | — |
| 2410170/2019 | 9 November 2019 | Mrs C Brown | Karcher (UK) Limited | England & Wales | — |
| 2417260/2018 | 9 November 2019 | Mr A McConnachie | Zenith Logistics Service (UK) Ltd | England & Wales | — |
| 2406339/2019 | 9 November 2019 | Mr T Parry | The Royal Bank Of Scotland Group plc | England & Wales | — |
| 3201748/2019 | 9 November 2019 | Mr P Heath | Line Management Group Limited | England & Wales | — |
| 3201648/2019 | 9 November 2019 | Mrs Y Tahir | CT Plus (Yorkshire) Community Interest Company | England & Wales | — |
| 1300353/2019 | 8 November 2019 | Mr P Greene | Good Shepherd Services | England & Wales | — |
| 2302293/2019 | 8 November 2019 | Mr U. Baz | Colosseum Dental UK Limited | England & Wales | — |
| 2200914/2018 | 8 November 2019 | Mr C Parkin (counsel) For the | — | England & Wales | £4,684 |
| 2206975/2018 | 8 November 2019 | in person For the | Secrets (Western) Ltd | England & Wales | £11,691 |
| 3201568/2019 | 8 November 2019 | Mr C Brind | Serco Limited | England & Wales | — |
| 1806554/2019 | 8 November 2019 | Mr A Rowland | Steering Specialist Limited | England & Wales | — |
| 3330751/2018 | 8 November 2019 | Sandra McAllister | Crown Cleaning Group Ltd | England & Wales | £380 |
| 4107729/2019 | 8 November 2019 | EMPLOYMENT TRIBUNALS (SCOTLAND) Case No: 4107729/2019 Ms L Jack | Represented by: Franklin Templeton Global Investors Limited st | Scotland | — |
| 2410755/2019 | 8 November 2019 | Miss N Blore | Impact Services Northern Ltd | England & Wales | — |
| 4107846/2019 | 8 November 2019 | Mrs T Frail | Not present or represented Dundee City Council | Scotland | — |
| 2600763/2019 | 8 November 2019 | Mr Brady of Counsel For the | — | England & Wales | £578 |
| 2405289/2017 | 8 November 2019 | Mrs C Lutman Mrs R Seddon | The Governing Body of St Damians RC Science College | England & Wales | — |
| 2411622/2019 | 8 November 2019 | Mrs W Wright | Changing Lives Together | England & Wales | — |
| 2301778/2019 | 8 November 2019 | — | Decamps v Al Seedawi Lebanese Factory Ltd | England & Wales | £23,906 |
| 2411050/2019 | 8 November 2019 | Mrs K Littlemore | Laura Dolecki | England & Wales | — |
| 2201802/2018 | 8 November 2019 | Miss C Huggins | & others Croma Vigilant (Scotland) Ltd | England & Wales | — |
| 2405526/2019 | 8 November 2019 | Mrs AP Johnson | Andrew McCarthy A & A Hair Loss | England & Wales | — |
| 1803704/2019 | 8 November 2019 | Miss S Deeba | Actionprompt Limited | England & Wales | — |
| 3303558/2019 | 8 November 2019 | Alison Atkinson | Weetabix Foods Limited | England & Wales | — |
| 4106946/2019 | 8 November 2019 | EMPLOYMENT TRIBUNALS (SCOTLAND) Case No: 4106946/2019 Ms J Franssen | Represented by: Mr W McParland - Solicitor Scottish Water | Scotland | — |
| 2300425/2019 | 8 November 2019 | Miss C Charlery | Caversham Finance Limited t/a Brighthouse | England & Wales | — |
| 4107175/2019 | 8 November 2019 | EMPLOYMENT TRIBUNALS (SCOTLAND) Case No: 4107175/2019 Mr K Hanson | Represented by: Mr B McLaughlin - Solicitor SGN Contracting Limited | Scotland | — |
| 2201731/2019 | 8 November 2019 | Mr S. Dwira | Total Support Services Limited | England & Wales | — |
| 3333447/2018 | 8 November 2019 | Mrs A Watson | University of Surrey | England & Wales | — |
| 2414944/2018 | 8 November 2019 | Mrs J Harley | DL Insurance Services Limited | England & Wales | — |
| 3303636/2019 | 8 November 2019 | Mr Lee Harper | Service MOT Repairs Ltd | England & Wales | — |
| 2500999/2019 | 8 November 2019 | Mr G Hunter | G4S Secure Solutions (UK) Limited | England & Wales | — |
| 1300285/2020 | 8 November 2019 | In person For the | Not present or represented | England & Wales | £3,954 |
| 2405882/2019 | 8 November 2019 | Mrs J Riley | HC-One Limited | England & Wales | — |
| 1811249/2018 | 8 November 2019 | Mr D Flood of Counsel (instructed by Howells LLP) | Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust | England & Wales | — |
| 2301270/2019 | 8 November 2019 | In Person For the | — | England & Wales | — |