Claim pillar
Tribunal Watch has indexed 40,006 UK employment tribunal cases involving unfair dismissal claims, published on gov.uk since 2017. Where compensation was recorded, the median award was £6,357 (the largest £3,449,329) across 5,389 cases. Tribunals upheld 38% of the 15,370 decided unfair dismissal claims. These cases name 30,125 distinct employers as respondents.
| Outcome | Claims | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Dismissed | 9,500 | 36% |
| Struck out | 6,576 | 25% |
| Upheld | 5,870 | 22% |
| Withdrawn | 3,600 | 13% |
| Other | 1,039 | 4% |
| Settled | 106 | 0% |
| Year | Cases | Trend |
|---|---|---|
| 2017 | 529 | |
| 2018 | 910 | |
| 2019 | 5,942 | |
| 2020 | 8,014 | |
| 2021 | 5,248 | |
| 2022 | 4,870 | |
| 2023 | 4,455 | |
| 2024 | 4,023 | |
| 2025 | 3,590 | |
| 2026 | 2,425 |
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2404157/2017 | 20 August 2019 | Ms L Hall | AstraZeneca UK Limited | England & Wales | — |
| 2303947/2018 | 20 August 2019 | Mrs Siobhan Gavriilidis | St Christophers School (Canterbury) Limited (in Liquidation) | England & Wales | — |
| 2303944/2018 | 20 August 2019 | Miss Nicole Baker | St Christophers School (Canterbury) Limited (in Liquidation) | England & Wales | — |
| 1600566/2019 | 20 August 2019 | Mr D Lewis | Owens Road Services Ltd | England & Wales | — |
| 2303948/2018 | 20 August 2019 | Mrs Debra Wallace | St Christophers School (Canterbury) Limited (in Liquidation) | England & Wales | — |
| 1803026/2019 | 20 August 2019 | Mrs S Williams | Royal Mail Group Limited | England & Wales | — |
| 2300097/2019 | 20 August 2019 | Ms J Searle | The London Hair Company Limited | England & Wales | £7,859 |
| 1802089/2019 |
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 | 51 |
| 17 | Limited (in Liquidation) | 48 |
| 18 | British Airways plc | 47 |
| 19 | Home Office | 47 |
| 20 | Secretary of State for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy | 47 |
| 20 August 2019 |
| Mr P Harmson |
| Sulzer Pumps (UK) Limited |
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| 2601789/2019 | 20 August 2019 | Mr R Martos-Martinez | University Hospitals of Derby and Burton NHS Foundation Trust (“the third respondent” or “R3”) | England & Wales | — |
| 2303945/2018 | 20 August 2019 | Mrs Laura Christodolou-Jones | St Christophers School (Canterbury) Limited (in Liquidation) | England & Wales | — |
| 2201371/2015 | 20 August 2019 | Mrs A A Balakumar | Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust Respondents to the wasted costs applicati | England & Wales | £7,500 |
| 2405939/2019 | 20 August 2019 | Mrs L Young | Jemcare | England & Wales | — |
| 2401762/2019 | 20 August 2019 | Mr S Cresswell | Caerus Holdings Limited | England & Wales | — |
| 2600188/2017 | 20 August 2019 | Mrs TE Herbert | York House Limited (formerly in Administration, now dissolved) | England & Wales | — |
| 1802932/2019 | 20 August 2019 | Miss A Wlosinska | Teconnex Limited | England & Wales | — |
| 2200572/2019 | 19 August 2019 | Miss M Probert | Debenhams Retail Limited (in Administration) | England & Wales | — |
| 1302525/2018 | 19 August 2019 | Mrs S Hawley | Business Safety Systems Ltd | England & Wales | — |
| 2602596/2018 | 19 August 2019 | Mrs F Saleh | Optyco Limited (a.k.a. Optyco Opticians - Lazer Eye Surgery) | England & Wales | — |
| 2303808/2018 | 19 August 2019 | Ms Isabel Daniel | Iceland Foods Limited | England & Wales | — |
| 4103182/2019 | 19 August 2019 | 69(scot) claim dismissed on withdrawal rule EMPLOYMENT TRIBUNALS (SCOTLAND) Case No 4103182/2019 Mrs MA Standing | Represented by: Mr C Robertson Solicitor SSE Metering Limited | Scotland | — |
| 2203859/2019 | 19 August 2019 | Mr T Perry, counsel For the | — | England & Wales | — |
| 2406056/2019 | 19 August 2019 | Mrs J Westcott | Primary Care 24 (Merseyside) Ltd | England & Wales | — |
| 2406026/2019 | 19 August 2019 | Mrs D Linney | H E Simm & Son Ltd | England & Wales | — |
| 2416432/2018 | 19 August 2019 | Mr S Jobanputra | Amey Services Limited | England & Wales | — |
| 3202315/2018 | 19 August 2019 | Mr A Ayinde | Corps Security (UK) Limited | England & Wales | — |
| 2404900/2019 | 19 August 2019 | Mrs C Symonde-Edwards | Southport & Ormskirk Hospital | England & Wales | — |
| 1800687/2019 | 19 August 2019 | Ms S Siswick | Kirklees Council (Adult Social Care) | England & Wales | — |
| 2600438/2018 | 19 August 2019 | Mrs N Turner | The Chief Constable of Lincolnshire Police | England & Wales | — |
| 2600083/2018 | 19 August 2019 | Miss Z Abdulla | NKT Consultancy Limited | England & Wales | — |
| 2402209/2019 | 19 August 2019 | Miss D Rogers | Ashley Hunter Training Academy | England & Wales | — |
| 2204570/2018 | 19 August 2019 | Mr N Ivanov | Betterstore Self Storage Operations Limited | England & Wales | — |
| 1600593/2018 | 19 August 2019 | Miss C Shead | Taylor's Etc Design Ltd (In Voluntary Liquidation) | England & Wales | — |
| 1401052/2019 | 19 August 2019 | Mrs L Humphreys | The Ugly Duckling | England & Wales | £1,395 |
| 1600935/2019 | 19 August 2019 | Mr M Duthie | Gower College Swansea | England & Wales | — |
| 3305560/2018 | 19 August 2019 | Mr Edward Greally | British Gas Services Limited | England & Wales | — |
| 2204511/2018 | 19 August 2019 | — | Brown v The Independent Criminal Law Specialists LLP | England & Wales | — |
| 1803027/2019 | 19 August 2019 | Mrs H Worthington-Harris | The Cabinet Office - Civil Service Employee Policy | England & Wales | — |
| 3201173/2018 | 19 August 2019 | Mrs R Ejvet | Genesis Education Trust Ltd | England & Wales | — |
| 1401769/2018 | 19 August 2019 | Ms J Rich | Sussex Partnership Foundation Trust | England & Wales | — |
| 2602943/2018 | 19 August 2019 | Mrs J Purohit | Aspiro Healthcare | England & Wales | — |
| 1803564/2019 | 19 August 2019 | In person | — | England & Wales | — |
| 2200792/2019 | 19 August 2019 | Miss E McTernan | Royal Brompton & Harefield NHS Foundation Trust | England & Wales | — |
| 2201102/2019 | 19 August 2019 | Mr A Ward | Storetech Ltd | England & Wales | — |
| 1600549/2019 | 19 August 2019 | Mr A Atkins | TBD (Owen Holland) Ltd | England & Wales | — |
| 1600708/2019 | 19 August 2019 | Ms Agnieszka Kieler-Piziorska | J K Lewis & Son Limited | England & Wales | — |
| 2201087/2018 | 19 August 2019 | Mr S Ozdemir | Centrica plc | England & Wales | — |
| 1303758/2018 | 19 August 2019 | Mrs E Kennard | Delta Chesford Grange Op Co Ltd | England & Wales | — |
| 1600691/2018 | 19 August 2019 | Miss N Brown | Memory Lane Cakes Limited | England & Wales | — |
| 2601559/2018 | 19 August 2019 | Miss K Freeman | BHIB Ltd | England & Wales | — |
| 1400351/2019 | 19 August 2019 | Mr S Austin | Hanson Quarry Products Europe Ltd | England & Wales | — |