How much compensation do victimisation claims award at an employment tribunal?

Across 92 UK victimisation tribunal cases with a recorded remedy since 2017, the median total award was £4,721 and the largest was £174,645.

What percentage of victimisation claims succeed at an employment tribunal?

Of 2,211 victimisation claims decided on the merits by UK tribunals, 17% were upheld.

How many UK victimisation employment tribunal cases are there?

Tribunal Watch has indexed 996 victimisation employment tribunal judgments published on gov.uk since 2017.

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Victimisation employment tribunal cases — UK data 2017–present

Name: Victimisation UK employment tribunal statistics
Creator: Tribunal Watch
License: https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/

Tribunal Watch has indexed 996 UK employment tribunal cases involving victimisation claims, published on gov.uk since 2017. Where compensation was recorded, the median award was £4,721 (the largest £174,645) across 92 cases. Tribunals upheld 17% of the 2,211 decided victimisation claims. These cases name 996 distinct employers as respondents.

Total cases: 996
Median award: £4,721
Claims upheld: 17%
Largest single award: £174,645
Distinct employers: 996
England & Wales: 915
Scotland: 81

Compensation in victimisation cases

92 cases with a recorded award

Median: £4,721
Mean: £15,438
25th percentile: £1,156
75th percentile: £19,250
90th percentile: £38,842
Largest: £174,645

Figures are the total award recorded across cases that include a victimisation claim and a published remedy — 92 of 996 victimisation 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 victimisation claims

3,247 adjudicated claims

Outcome	Claims	Share
Dismissed	1,843	57%
Other	407	13%
Struck out	369	11%
Upheld	368	11%
Withdrawn	259	8%
Settled	1	0%

Counting only claims a tribunal decided on the merits (upheld or dismissed), 17% of victimisation claims were upheld — 368 of 2,211. Settled and withdrawn claims are excluded from that rate. Outcomes are recorded per claim, so a judgment can uphold one claim and dismiss another.

Victimisation cases per year

2017–2026

Year	Cases	Trend
2017	7
2018	26
2019	119
2020	193
2021	91
2022	97
2023	109
2024	136
2025	176
2026	42

Largest victimisation awards

Top 8 by total award

Case ref.	Decided	Claimant	Primary respondent	Total award
2416884/2018	20 March 2020	Mr P Allen	Paradigm Precision Burnley Limited	£174,645
2201552/2024	24 March 2025	Mrs E Trobe	Nomad Health Technologies Ltd	£99,169
2200315/2023	17 November 2023	Mr S Agar	Allspring Global Investments (UK) Ltd	£93,878
2300246/2023	18 July 2024	—	LR C&R Ltd	£77,861
3202429/2019	14 May 2021	Kim Holman Lauren Gardiner	Ambulance Transfers Ltd Joseph Church	£57,377
2219355/2024	12 June 2025	Alexandra Khan	R Townhouse Ltd t/a Raffles Chelsea	£50,322
8001891/2024	30 July 2025	Member J Chalmers Tribunal Member A Matheson PC S Jones	—	£48,625
3200652/2021	5 May 2022	Ms C Roderique	Ldn Global Group Limited (In Liquidation)	£46,465

Top employers — victimisation cases

20 ranked by case count

#	Employer	Cases
01	Asda Stores Limited	6
02	Royal Mail Group Limited	6
03	Tesco Stores Ltd	6
04	Ministry of Defence	5
05	The Secretary of State for Justice	5
06	Whitbread Group plc	4
07	ISS Facility Services Limited	3
08	Marks and Spencer plc	3
09	Mitie Limited	3
10	Network Rail Infrastructure Limited	3
11	Sainsbury’s Supermarkets Limited	3
12	Stonegate Pub Company Limited	3
13	Tesco plc	3
14	The Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis	3
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All victimisation cases

996 cases · page 20 of 20 · chronological

Case ref.	Decided	Claimant	Primary respondent	Jurisdiction	Total award
2416368/2018	16 April 2019	Mrs P Day	The Bee Hive (NW) Ltd	England & Wales	—
4100049/2017	10 April 2019	E.T. Z (WR) EMPLOYMENT TRIBUNALS (SCOTLAND) Case No: 4100049/2017 Held in Glasgow on 1, 5, and March 2019 Employment Judge: W A Meiklejohn Members: Mrs E A Farrell Ms M McAllister Mr James Hunter	Represented by: Ms L Neil - Solicitor The Richmond Fellowship Scotland	Scotland	—
1811115/2018	5 April 2019	Mr L Doherty	St Anne'S Community Services	England & Wales	—
3335326/2018	4 April 2019	In person. For the	—	England & Wales	—
4113344/2018	3 April 2019	Tribunal Members: Mr R McPherson and Mr A McMillan Mr D S Heenan	Innseagan House Hotel Limited t/a Innseagan	Scotland	£842
2416867/2018	28 March 2019	Mr W Crawford First	Second Respondent: Third Respondent: Sopra Steria Recruitment Limited NHS Oldham CCG t/a Greater Manchester Shared Services Parasol Limited	England & Wales	—
2602088/2017

Methodology

Cases on this page are identified by first-pass extraction against the locked §4.4 claim-type taxonomy — a judgment enters the victimisation caseload if victimisationis 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.