Unlawful deduction from wages compensation & tribunal success rate — UK data (page 26) | Tribunal Watch
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Unlawful deduction from wages employment tribunal cases — UK data 2017–present
Tribunal Watch has indexed 36,571 UK employment tribunal cases involving unlawful deduction from wages claims, published on gov.uk since 2017. Where compensation was recorded, the median award was £2,375 (the largest £3,449,329) across 15,206 cases. Tribunals upheld 76% of the 20,823 decided unlawful deduction from wages claims. These cases name 28,365 distinct employers as respondents.
Total cases
36,571
Median award
£2,375
Claims upheld
76%
Largest single award
£3,449,329
Distinct employers
28,365
England & Wales
31,989
Scotland
4,582
Compensation in unlawful deduction from wages cases
15,206 cases with a recorded award
Median
£2,375
Mean
£6,842
25th percentile
£962
75th percentile
£6,304
90th percentile
£15,354
Largest
£3,449,329
Figures are the total award recorded across cases that include a unlawful deduction from wages claim and a published remedy — 15,206 of 36,571 unlawful deduction from wages cases. Many tribunal judgments decide liability only, with compensation set at a later hearing, so they are not counted here. A judgment combining several claim types contributes its whole award. Nothing here is legal advice or a prediction of any individual outcome.
Outcomes of unlawful deduction from wages claims
25,694 adjudicated claims
Outcome
Claims
Share
Upheld
15,817
62%
Dismissed
5,006
19%
Struck out
2,084
8%
Withdrawn
2,044
8%
Other
543
2%
Settled
200
1%
Counting only claims a tribunal decided on the merits (upheld or dismissed), 76% of unlawful deduction from wages claims were upheld — 15,817 of 20,823. Settled and withdrawn claims are excluded from that rate. Outcomes are recorded per claim, so a judgment can uphold one claim and dismiss another.
Cases on this page are identified by first-pass extraction against the locked §4.4 claim-type taxonomy — a judgment enters the unlawful deduction from wages caseload if unlawful deduction from wagesis 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.
ETZ 4(WR) IN THE EMPLOYMENT TRIBUNAL (SCOTLAND) AT EDINBURGH Judgment of the Employment Tribunal in Case No: 8002229/2025 Heard at Edinburgh on February 2026 Employment Judge J G d’Inverno Ms E Mages