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 15,215 decided unfair dismissal claims. These cases name 29,766 distinct employers as respondents.
| Outcome | Claims | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Dismissed | 9,397 | 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| Withdrawn | 3,592 | 14% |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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1600261/2019 | 23 September 2019 | Mr J Williams | Denbighshire County Council | England & Wales | — |
| 2304088/2017 | 23 September 2019 | Mrs J Fearon | Medway Council | England & Wales | — |
| 1601147/2017 | 23 September 2019 | Mr T Guy | Highland Medical Limited | England & Wales | £24,749 |
| 2401433/2019 | 23 September 2019 | Mrs P Grindey | Government Legal Department | England & Wales | — |
| 2300774/2019 | 23 September 2019 | Mrs S Langston | Smiths News Trading Ltd | England & Wales | — |
| 1804094/2019 | 23 September 2019 | Miss A Mirza | Bradford Women’s Aid | England & Wales | — |
| 2500251/2019 | 23 September 2019 | Mr K Allen | Senstronics Ltd | England & Wales | — |
| 3331766/2018 | 23 September 2019 | Ms Ismail (counsel) For the | — |
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 |
| England & Wales |
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| 1402720/2018 | 23 September 2019 | Mr A E Lagha | Smart Systems Limited | England & Wales | £7,855 |
| 1305782/2018 | 23 September 2019 | Gita Karavadra | B.J. Cheese Packaging Limited | England & Wales | £21,081 |
| 1403730/2018 | 23 September 2019 | Mrs Julia Turner | — | England & Wales | — |
| 2402828/2019 | 23 September 2019 | Mr M Kennedy | Ainscough Crane Hire Limited | England & Wales | — |
| 2304514/2018 | 23 September 2019 | Mr. M Wilson | Transport for London | England & Wales | — |
| 2417893/2018 | 23 September 2019 | Mr T Thompson | Mitie Security Limited | England & Wales | — |
| 2406415/2019 | 23 September 2019 | Ms J Kelly | Blackburn with Darwen Borough Council | England & Wales | — |
| 2601455/2018 | 23 September 2019 | Mr J Musgrove | Mansfield District Council | England & Wales | — |
| 4106990/2019 | 23 September 2019 | EMPLOYMENT TRIBUNALS (SCOTLAND) Employment Judge J M Hendry Case No: 4106990/2019 Mr A Humphreys | Represented by: Ms A Morris, AM Employment Law Ltd The Th Duke Of Westminster's 1964 Settlement | Scotland | — |
| 2414903/2018 | 21 September 2019 | Ms A Burton | 1) David L Clackson Organisation (Northern) Limited 2) The Distribution Business Limited | England & Wales | — |
| 3334689/2018 | 21 September 2019 | Mr P Chahal | Cereal Partners UK | England & Wales | — |
| 2405994/2019 | 21 September 2019 | Miss C Wilde | Tameside and Glossop Integrated Care NHS Foundation Trust | England & Wales | — |
| 2411961/2018 | 21 September 2019 | — | — | England & Wales | — |
| 2416392/2018 | 21 September 2019 | Miss S Farrar | Governing Body of Oakfield High School and College | England & Wales | — |
| 2401481/2019 | 21 September 2019 | Mr A Lord | Metallurgical Processing Limited (in creditors voluntary liquidation) | England & Wales | — |
| 2406529/2019 | 21 September 2019 | Mr K Jankauskas | Scott Timber Limited | England & Wales | — |
| 2405187/2019 | 21 September 2019 | Mrs J Burleigh | Phoenix Medical Supplies Ltd | England & Wales | — |
| 2410260/2019 | 21 September 2019 | Ms J Cracknell | National Probation Service | England & Wales | — |
| 2405543/2019 | 21 September 2019 | Mr K Gerrard | Golden Harvest Foods Ltd | England & Wales | — |
| 2406057/2019 | 21 September 2019 | Mr CK Whang | Maxwell Style Ltd | England & Wales | — |
| 2300574/2019 | 21 September 2019 | In Person Interpreter: Mr R Konop (Polish/English) For the | Mr T Fuller, Consultant | England & Wales | — |
| 2417234/2018 | 21 September 2019 | Mrs C Parker | Wirral Borough Council | England & Wales | — |
| 2410198/2019 | 21 September 2019 | Ms S Kidwell | 1.K3 Business Technology Group plc 2.Robert Price | England & Wales | — |
| 2405953/2019 | 21 September 2019 | Ms C Peters | Sainsbury’s Supermarkets Limited | England & Wales | — |
| 4106426/2019 | 20 September 2019 | EMPLOYMENT TRIBUNALS (SCOTLAND) Case No: 4106426/2019 Mr R Matthews | L & I Eaton Arc (Edinburgh) Limited | Scotland | — |
| 4107715/2019 | 20 September 2019 | EMPLOYMENT TRIBUNALS (SCOTLAND) Case No: 4107715/2019 Mr B White | Represented by: Mr C White Mitie Limited | Scotland | — |
| 2500222/2019 | 20 September 2019 | Mr T Morrell | The Green Hops Bar Limited | England & Wales | — |
| 3335241/2018 | 20 September 2019 | Mr M Clay | Lloyds Bank Commercial Finance Limited | England & Wales | — |
| 2410055/2019 | 20 September 2019 | Mr L Kerr | American Airlines | England & Wales | — |
| 1805152/2018 | 20 September 2019 | Ms Z Khan | Sheffield Health and Social Care Trust | England & Wales | — |
| 3332325/2018 | 20 September 2019 | Mr G Dixon | Sheila Farey, | England & Wales | — |
| 1803615/2019 | 20 September 2019 | Miss Y Harvey | Countrywide Healthcare Ltd t/a Headingly Park Care Home | England & Wales | — |
| 1600791/2019 | 20 September 2019 | Mr S Price | Central FM Group Limited | England & Wales | — |
| 1403445/2019 | 20 September 2019 | Mr T Brookes | Streetsharp Limited | England & Wales | — |
| 1403038/2018 | 20 September 2019 | Mr JL Wood | BAE Systems Surface Ships Ltd | England & Wales | — |
| 2410245/2019 | 20 September 2019 | Mr K Edwards | Barclays Bank UK plc | England & Wales | — |
| 3303408/2019 | 20 September 2019 | Mr A Martin | Openreach Ltd | England & Wales | — |
| 3333434/2018 | 20 September 2019 | Mr A Sharaibi | And DHL Global Match (UK) Limited Preliminary Hearing (Case Management) | England & Wales | — |
| 3316148/2019 | 20 September 2019 | Mr D Searle | Elliott Group Limited | England & Wales | — |
| 4104984/2018 | 20 September 2019 | EMPLOYMENT TRIBUNALS (SCOTLAND) Employment Judge N M Hosie Case No: 4104984/2018 Ms K Murray | Represented by: Mr P Lefevre, Quantum Claims The Isobel Fraser Home | Scotland | — |
| 3334451/2018 | 20 September 2019 | Miss K Mancer | London Borough of Brent | England & Wales | — |
| 2402286/2019 | 20 September 2019 | Mr G Donoghue | Amey Services Limited | England & Wales | — |