Unlawful deduction from wages compensation & tribunal success rate — UK data (page 402) | 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 20,822 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
25,693 adjudicated claims
Outcome
Claims
Share
Upheld
15,817
62%
Dismissed
5,005
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Withdrawn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 20,822. Settled and withdrawn claims are excluded from that rate.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.