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| Withdrawn | 3,592 | 14% |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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2206284/2018 | 4 December 2017 | Mr S Deegan | Globalgrange Ltd & others | England & Wales | — |
| 4113514/2015 | 1 December 2017 | Mr G Percy | Petrofac Facilities Management Limited | Scotland | — |
| 4113473/2015 | 1 December 2017 | Mr D Harrison | Petrofac Facilities Management Limited | Scotland | — |
| 2302101/2017 | 1 December 2017 | Mr T Gent | Hoof Burgers Ltd | England & Wales | — |
| 4113484/2015 | 1 December 2017 | Ms C Jones | Petrofac Facilities Management Limited | Scotland | — |
| 2300543/2017 | 1 December 2017 | Mr P Rose | Paul Strank Roofing Ltd | England & Wales | — |
| 4113442/2015 | 1 December 2017 | Mr R Carroll | Petrofac Facilities Management Limited | Scotland | — |
| 4113535/2015 | 1 December 2017 | Mr H Mclnnes |
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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| 4113433/2015 | 1 December 2017 | Ms T Beavis | Petrofac Facilities Management Limited | Scotland | — |
| 4113449/2015 | 1 December 2017 | Mr R Cody | Petrofac Facilities Management Limited | Scotland | — |
| 4113467/2015 | 1 December 2017 | Mr R Gibson | Petrofac Facilities Management Limited | Scotland | — |
| 4113497/2015 | 1 December 2017 | — | Petrofac Facilities Management Limited | Scotland | — |
| 2302082/2017 | 1 December 2017 | Mr T Joseph | The Whitgift Foundation | England & Wales | — |
| 4113515/2015 | 1 December 2017 | Mr S Poole | Petrofac Facilities Management Limited | Scotland | — |
| 4113503/2015 | 1 December 2017 | Mr G Mehlmann | Petrofac Facilities Management Limited | Scotland | — |
| 2300297/2017 | 1 December 2017 | Mr D Mecredy | Bromley College of Further and Higher Education | England & Wales | — |
| 4113532/2015 | 1 December 2017 | Mr D Harvey | Petrofac Facilities Management Limited | Scotland | — |
| 4113461/2015 | 1 December 2017 | Mr D Empson | Petrofac Facilities Management Limited | Scotland | — |
| 4113431/2015 | 1 December 2017 | Mr J Atherton | Petrofac Facilities Management Limited | Scotland | — |
| 2302251/2017 | 1 December 2017 | Miss E Dura | Unilever UK Limited | England & Wales | — |
| 4113530/2015 | 1 December 2017 | Mr S Cogan | Petrofac Facilities Management Limited | Scotland | — |
| 4113476/2015 | 1 December 2017 | — | Petrofac Facilities Management Limited | Scotland | — |
| 4113443/2015 | 1 December 2017 | Mr J Carter | Petrofac Facilities Management Limited | Scotland | — |
| 4113538/2015 | 1 December 2017 | Mr S Slane | Petrofac Facilities Management Limited | Scotland | — |
| 2301526/2017 | 1 December 2017 | Mrs C Wolfenden | Nuffield Health | England & Wales | — |
| 4113483/2015 | 1 December 2017 | Mr A Johnson | Petrofac Facilities Management Limited | Scotland | — |
| 4113435/2015 | 1 December 2017 | Mr C Bennett | Petrofac Facilities Management Limited | Scotland | — |
| 1303095/2016 | 1 December 2017 | Mr J Park | Korea Foods Company Ltd | England & Wales | — |
| 2300898/2017 | 30 November 2017 | Miss F Owusu | NHS Property Services Limited | England & Wales | — |
| 2301129/2017 | 30 November 2017 | Mr M Kizito | Kent County Council, | England & Wales | — |
| 2302708/2017 | 30 November 2017 | Mr M Esposito | Shaklin Limited | England & Wales | — |
| 2302573/2017 | 30 November 2017 | Mr B Mai | H M Prison and Probation Service | England & Wales | — |
| 4102406/2017 | 30 November 2017 | EMPLOYMENT TRIBUNALS (SCOTLAND) Case No: 4102406/2017 Mr D Manderson | Wyman-Gordon Limited | Scotland | — |
| 2301490/2017 | 30 November 2017 | Ms H Vince | Cygnet Surrey Limited | England & Wales | — |
| 2301477/2017 | 30 November 2017 | Mr G Bains | Willis Towers Watson Limited/Towers Watson Limited | England & Wales | — |
| 2302226/2017 | 30 November 2017 | Mr J Goodman | West Kent Clinical Commissioning Group | England & Wales | — |
| 4100778/2017 | 28 November 2017 | ETZ 4(WR) IN THE EMPLOYMENT TRIBUNAL (SCOTLAND) AT EDINBURGH Draft Judgment of the Tribunal in Case No: S/4100778/2017 Heard at Edinburgh on the rd, th and th with Deliberation on th October 20175 Employment Judge: J G d’Inverno, QVRM, TD, VR, WS (Sitting Alone) Mrs L Page | Briggs Marine Contractors Limited | Scotland | — |
| 3335285/2018 | 27 November 2017 | Ms R Anghel | Middlesex University | England & Wales | — |
| 4100205/2017 | 27 November 2017 | Mrs Elizabeth McCarthy | Represented by: Ms L MacSporran Solicitor Joan’s Carers Ltd | Scotland | — |
| 2420916/2017 | 27 November 2017 | Miss S Daniels | 1) Hilbre Care Limited 2) DellaMcManus | England & Wales | — |
| 2207744/2016 | 27 November 2017 | In person For the | — | England & Wales | — |
| 2302772/2016 | 23 November 2017 | Mrs S McLeary | One Housing Group Limited | England & Wales | — |
| 4104721/2017 | 23 November 2017 | EMPLOYMENT TRIBUNALS (SCOTLAND) Case No: 4104721/2017 Mr M Robertson | Menzies Distribution | Scotland | — |
| 4102447/2017 | 22 November 2017 | EMPLOYMENT TRIBUNALS (SCOTLAND) Case No: 4102447/2017 Mr R Morrison | Texas Instruments (UK) Limited | Scotland | — |
| 4104605/2017 | 22 November 2017 | EMPLOYMENT TRIBUNALS (SCOTLAND) Case No: 4104605/2017 Mrs T Brennan | Tesco Family Dining Limited | Scotland | — |
| 3400990/2016 | 22 November 2017 | Mr J Black | Foreign and Commonwealth Office - FCO Services PRELIMINARY HEARING | England & Wales | — |
| 3201955/2018 | 22 November 2017 | Mrs V. Okoh | North East London NHS Foundation Trust | England & Wales | — |
| 3305151/2018 | 21 November 2017 | Ms S Bowen, Counsel For the | — | England & Wales | — |
| 3300008/2018 | 21 November 2017 | In person For the | Nikolas Clarke, Solicitor | England & Wales | — |
| 2301253/2017 | 20 November 2017 | Mr P Cater | The Governing Body of the John Roan School | England & Wales | — |