Victimisation compensation & tribunal success rate — UK data (page 22) | Tribunal Watch
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Victimisation employment tribunal cases — UK data 2017–present
Tribunal Watch has indexed 1,071 UK employment tribunal cases involving victimisation claims, published on gov.uk since 2017. Where compensation was recorded, the median award was £5,064 (the largest £174,645) across 95 cases. Tribunals upheld 17% of the 2,302 decided victimisation claims. These cases name 1,068 distinct employers as respondents.
Total cases
1,071
Median award
£5,064
Claims upheld
17%
Largest single award
£174,645
Distinct employers
1,068
England & Wales
972
Scotland
99
Compensation in victimisation cases
95 cases with a recorded award
Median
£5,064
Mean
£15,596
25th percentile
£1,296
75th percentile
£19,293
90th percentile
£38,131
Largest
£174,645
Figures are the total award recorded across cases that include a victimisation claim and a published remedy — 95 of 1,071 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
3,378 adjudicated claims
Outcome
Claims
Share
Dismissed
1,920
57%
Other
429
13%
Upheld
382
11%
Struck out
381
11%
Withdrawn
265
8%
Settled
1
0%
Counting only claims a tribunal decided on the merits (upheld or dismissed), 17% of victimisation claims were upheld — 382 of 2,302. Settled and withdrawn claims are excluded from that rate.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 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.