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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 15,215 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| Withdrawn | 3,592 | 14% |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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2302613/2017 | 15 December 2017 | Ms B Bengtson | Southern Dental Limited | England & Wales | — |
| 2302525/2017 | 15 December 2017 | Ms J DeAlvis | Geoffrey Osborne Limited | England & Wales | — |
| 2302701/2017 | 15 December 2017 | Mrs K Mitchell | Mid-Sussex Golf Club Limited | England & Wales | — |
| 2302905/2017 | 15 December 2017 | Mr G Ditch | Royal Mail Group Limited | England & Wales | — |
| 3201050/2018 | 15 December 2017 | Ms Svetlana Sinelnikova | ActivTrades plc | England & Wales | — |
| 2302060/2017 | 15 December 2017 | Ms T Pizzey | Waterstones Booksellers Limited | England & Wales | — |
| 4100408/2017 | 14 December 2017 | )5 M | — | Scotland | — |
| 2301915/2017 | 14 December 2017 | Mr P Dunham | Debenhams Retail Limited (in Administration) | 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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| 2301174/2017 | 14 December 2017 | Mr J Gilbert | Eaton House Group of Schools | England & Wales | — |
| 2301949/2017 | 14 December 2017 | Mr M Spall | The Leaseholder Association | England & Wales | — |
| 2301237/2017 | 13 December 2017 | Mr S Ani | Day and Nite Services Ltd | England & Wales | — |
| 4100575/2016 | 13 December 2017 | Date: February 2018 Sent to parties: February 2018 I EMPLOYMENT TRIBUNALS (SCOTLAND) Case No: S/41 00575/201 Held in Glasgow on 8, 9, and May and and October 2017 Employment Judge: Mrs M Kearns (sitting alone) Mr L Fuyal | Represented by: Mr M Allison Solicitor Mr Rahul Randev and Mr Pravesh Randevt/a The Eagle Lodge | Scotland | £8,658 |
| 4104584/2017 | 13 December 2017 | — | Flynns James Ltd T/a Flec Payroll and Others: S/4104584/2017 | Scotland | — |
| 4100219/2017 | 13 December 2017 | EMPLOYMENT TRIBUNALS (SCOTLAND) Case No: 4100219/2017 Hearing in Portree Sheriff Courthouse on 13, and November 2017 Employment Judge: M A Macleod (sitting alone) James Cameron | Scottish Hydro Electric Power Distribution plc | Scotland | — |
| 2302326/2017 | 12 December 2017 | Mr S Paul | ApplianceServe Ltd | England & Wales | — |
| 2301471/2017 | 12 December 2017 | Miss L Palmer | Medway Council | England & Wales | — |
| 2300716/2017 | 12 December 2017 | Mrs J Tagg | The Kent Tea and Trading Company (a partnership) t/a The Kent & Sussex Tea & Coffee Company | England & Wales | — |
| 2302209/2017 | 12 December 2017 | Mr J Farragher | Veritek Global Limited | England & Wales | — |
| 4105290/2016 | 12 December 2017 | — | WC Willis & Co Ltd | Scotland | £27,803 |
| 2302020/2017 | 12 December 2017 | Mr A Hough | Iron Mountain (UK) Limited | England & Wales | — |
| 2302077/2017 | 12 December 2017 | Mrs J Bowers-Waite | Sussex Community NHS Foundation Trust | England & Wales | — |
| 2300449/2017 | 12 December 2017 | Mr D Lawson | Cordant Cleaning Limited | England & Wales | — |
| 2301485/2017 | 12 December 2017 | Mr D Clarke | Department Of Health | England & Wales | — |
| 2301444/2017 | 12 December 2017 | Mrs S Robinson | Phoenix Stationery Limited | England & Wales | — |
| 2301233/2017 | 12 December 2017 | Ms RZ Blewitt | Joanna Verrico And Associates | England & Wales | — |
| 2302055/2017 | 12 December 2017 | Mrs L Hadfield | Lewes Old Grammar School | England & Wales | — |
| 2301087/2017 | 12 December 2017 | Miss J Ward | Stagecoach South Western Trains Ltd | England & Wales | — |
| 2302891/2016 | 11 December 2017 | Miss T Reid | Bromley College of Further and Higher Education | England & Wales | — |
| 4104848/2017 | 11 December 2017 | Mr M Green | Colin Malcher | Scotland | — |
| 2300474/2017 | 11 December 2017 | Mr R Dixon | Royal Mail Group Limited | England & Wales | — |
| 2302227/2017 | 11 December 2017 | Mr D Holman | Royal Mail Group Limited | England & Wales | — |
| 2300016/2017 | 11 December 2017 | Mrs J Palmer | Saga plc | England & Wales | — |
| 1303221/2017 | 11 December 2017 | In person For the | — | England & Wales | — |
| 2301750/2017 | 11 December 2017 | Miss A Allwright | Asda | England & Wales | — |
| 2301137/2017 | 11 December 2017 | Mr A Biswas | West Of England Insurance Services (Luxembourg) S.A. | England & Wales | — |
| 2302705/2016 | 11 December 2017 | Mrs H Ornelas | Aramark Ltd | England & Wales | — |
| 2302335/2017 | 11 December 2017 | Miss M Dearling | Apogee Corporation Limited | England & Wales | — |
| 2301932/2017 | 11 December 2017 | Mr A Tchoudinov | Sports and Leisure Management Ltd | England & Wales | — |
| 1400666/2017 | 8 December 2017 | Ms M S K Sembhi | Bournemouth Borough Council | England & Wales | — |
| 4100696/2017 | 8 December 2017 | (sitting alone) Mr M H MacNab | Represented by:15 Ms K Webb & Mr J Anderson Strathclyde University Law Clinic British Telecommunications plc | Scotland | — |
| 2301555/2017 | 7 December 2017 | Mr A Corning | Sopra Steria | England & Wales | — |
| 2302117/2017 | 7 December 2017 | Mrs B Newton | Pilgrims Hospices | England & Wales | — |
| 2301442/2017 | 7 December 2017 | Miss GS Shepherd | Boots Management Services Ltd | England & Wales | — |
| 2301530/2017 | 7 December 2017 | Mr D Burton | Drallim Industries Limited | England & Wales | — |
| 2301344/2017 | 7 December 2017 | Mr M Adeogun | Govia Thameslink Railway Ltd | England & Wales | — |
| 4105570/2016 | 6 December 2017 | Member: Mr P O’Donnell Mr R McPherson Mrs J Hassan | Represented by: Mr B Kadirgolam – Solicitor Community InfoSource | Scotland | — |
| 4102334/2017 | 6 December 2017 | — | Calmac Developments Ltd | Scotland | — |
| 2302329/2017 | 5 December 2017 | In person For the | Sian Rowlands (In house counsel) | England & Wales | — |
| 4102063/2017 | 5 December 2017 | EMPLOYMENT TRIBUNALS (SCOTLAND) Case No: 4102063/2017 Ms N Codona | Rockhouse Limited | Scotland | — |
| 4102251/2017 | 5 December 2017 | EMPLOYMENT TRIBUNALS (SCOTLAND) Case No: 4102251/2017 Mr P Swarbrick | Meadowburn Technical Services Ltd | Scotland | — |