Claim pillar
Tribunal Watch has indexed 6,420 UK employment tribunal cases involving whistleblowing claims, published on gov.uk since 2017. Where compensation was recorded, the median award was £4,492 (the largest £920,302) across 587 cases. Tribunals upheld 14% of the 2,763 decided whistleblowing claims. These cases name 6,112 distinct employers as respondents.
| Outcome | Claims | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Dismissed | 2,388 | 54% |
| Struck out | 654 | 15% |
| Other | 516 | 12% |
| Withdrawn | 495 | 11% |
| Upheld | 375 | 8% |
| Settled | 8 | 0% |
| Year | Cases | Trend |
|---|---|---|
| 2017 | 87 | |
| 2018 | 186 | |
| 2019 | 829 | |
| 2020 | 1,116 | |
| 2021 | 745 | |
| 2022 | 736 | |
| 2023 | 769 | |
| 2024 | 716 | |
| 2025 | 775 | |
| 2026 | 461 |
| Case ref. | Decided | Claimant | Primary respondent | Total award |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1401505/2015 | 28 May 2019 | M Shoukrey | BMI Healthcare | £920,302 |
| 2202063/2014 | 8 November 2019 | Mr M Epstein For | Government of the State of Qatar | £388,920 |
| 2203888/2020 | 11 March 2022 | Ms L Bone (Counsel) For the | — | £200,000 |
| 3200557/2016 | 31 May 2018 | Mr A Dogra | Acetrip Limited | £124,659 |
| 3301843/2020 | 19 January 2024 | Mr M Magee, Counsel For the | — | £122,654 |
| 6010549/2024 | 9 January 2026 | Andrew Palmer | Aqua Lane Limited | £122,426 |
| 2302047/2022 | 1 March 2023 | Mr I Turner | Tower Demolition (Holdings) Ltd1 (company number 07747685) | £121,602 |
| 2201552/2024 | 24 March 2025 | Mrs E Trobe | Nomad Health Technologies Ltd | £99,169 |
| Case ref. | Decided | Claimant | Primary respondent | Jurisdiction | Total award |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4110881/2019 | 6 January 2020 | EMPLOYMENT TRIBUNALS (SCOTLAND) Case No: 4110881/2019 Mr C Tapsell | Represented by: Mr D Purdie, Solicitor Ace Aviation Services Ltd | Scotland | — |
| 3332922/2018 | 6 January 2020 | Mrs Lorraine (Counsel) For the | Mr Cuckney (Solicitor) | England & Wales | — |
| 2415422/2018 | 6 January 2020 | Mr MP Murmilo Miss PM Mahon | The Co-Operative Group Ltd | England & Wales | — |
| 2200595/2019 | 6 January 2020 | Mrs M Sanchez Buenaventura | Alliancebernstein Limited | England & Wales | — |
| 2301192/2019 | 6 January 2020 | Mrs C Henderson | Ashton Care Home Ltd | England & Wales | — |
| 2418028/2018 | 6 January 2020 | Miss L Leonard | Department for Work and Pensions | England & Wales | — |
| 2301937/2017 | 6 January 2020 | Ms C Obaseki | Lifestyle Care Management Limited | England & Wales | — |
Cases on this page are identified by first-pass extraction against the locked §4.4 claim-type taxonomy — a judgment enters the whistleblowing caseload if whistleblowingis 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.
| 15 | Transport for London | 8 |
| 16 | Lancashire County Council | 7 |
| 17 | Lidl Great Britain Limited | 7 |
| 18 | Limited (in Liquidation) | 7 |
| 19 | London Borough of Newham | 7 |
| 20 | Serco Limited | 7 |
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| 6 January 2020 |
| Mr T Smith |
| The Rationalist Association |
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| 2302874/2017 | 6 January 2020 | Ms M Dodsworth | London Borough of Croydon R1 Governing Body of the Red Gates School R2 | England & Wales | — |
| 3313392/2019 | 5 January 2020 | Mrs G Apic | Elpis Biomed Ltd | England & Wales | — |
| 2417928/2018 | 4 January 2020 | Mr H Sheikh | Al. Murad D.i.y. Limited | England & Wales | — |
| 2405318/2019 | 3 January 2020 | Miss E Taylor | Turtle Bay UK | England & Wales | — |
| 2405989/2019 | 3 January 2020 | Mr J Holden | Blackburn with Darwen Borough Council | England & Wales | — |
| 2405731/2019 | 3 January 2020 | Mr Z Watson Mr M Jackson | Tesco Stores Ltd | England & Wales | — |
| 1402381/2019 | 2 January 2020 | In person For the | — | England & Wales | — |
| 1405207/2018 | 2 January 2020 | Mrs T Place | Anaya Corporation Ltd t/a Kare Plus Portsmouth | England & Wales | — |
| 2302305/2019 | 2 January 2020 | Mr R Chuhan | Hermes Parcelnet Limited | England & Wales | — |
| 2411608/2019 | 31 December 2019 | Mr C Owen | Independent Office for Police Conduct | England & Wales | — |
| 1806488/2019 | 31 December 2019 | Mrs S Purewal | Link Market Services Limited | England & Wales | — |
| 1401305/2019 | 31 December 2019 | Mr P Russell | Multi Trades Recruitment Ltd | England & Wales | — |
| 2300930/2019 | 31 December 2019 | Mr S Kargbo | Serco Limited | England & Wales | — |
| 1405007/2019 | 31 December 2019 | Mr M Rakib | C&W Transport Limited | England & Wales | — |
| 2411927/2018 | 31 December 2019 | Mr A Broad | Fruitful Market Place Ltd | England & Wales | — |
| 2404571/2019 | 31 December 2019 | Mr Paul Newton | Proactive Care (Manchester) Ltd | England & Wales | — |
| 1601747/2019 | 31 December 2019 | Mrs J Maxwell | E &A Homes Ltd t/a St Jude Care Home | England & Wales | — |
| 1400678/2019 | 31 December 2019 | Mrs R Wilkinson | Atlanticway Bude Farmshop Ltd | England & Wales | — |
| 2602684/2019 | 30 December 2019 | Miss S Croly | Kelly Ann Smith | England & Wales | — |
| 1402999/2019 | 30 December 2019 | Mrs M Giannopoulou | Gracewell of Salisbury | England & Wales | — |
| 3200612/2019 | 30 December 2019 | Mr E Taktak | Société Générale | England & Wales | — |
| 4102721/2019 | 30 December 2019 | Ms E Storey | Whisky Merchant Trading Ltd | Scotland | — |
| 3303575/2019 | 29 December 2019 | In Person | — | England & Wales | — |
| 2417807/2018 | 24 December 2019 | Mr Paul Newton | Weaver Vale Housing Trust | England & Wales | — |
| 1401021/2019 | 24 December 2019 | In person For the | — | England & Wales | — |
| 1403800/2019 | 24 December 2019 | Miss N McRae | Barchester Healthcare Ltd | England & Wales | — |
| 1601996/2019 | 24 December 2019 | Mr T Jones | Legal Support Solutions Ltd | England & Wales | — |
| 1400265/2019 | 23 December 2019 | Mr R Fitzgerald | Ellen MacArthur Foundation | England & Wales | — |
| 1403382/2019 | 23 December 2019 | Ms L Mankau (Counsel) For the | Ms E Bale (paralegal) | England & Wales | — |
| 1403486/2019 | 23 December 2019 | Ms K Haines | Priory Education Services Limited | England & Wales | — |
| 3200730/2016 | 23 December 2019 | — | Chidavaenzi v Spencer & Arlington Ltd | England & Wales | £0 |
| 4123886/2018 | 23 December 2019 | Mr X | - Solicitor Capita Customer Management Ltd | Scotland | — |
| 2302727/2017 | 21 December 2019 | In person For the | Ms Brown (Solicitor for Second Respondent) Ms Jennings (Counsel for First Respondent) PRELIMINARY HEARING | England & Wales | — |
| 1600048/2019 | 21 December 2019 | Mr W Elliott | Boss Brewing Company Ltd | England & Wales | £778 |
| 2501307/2018 | 20 December 2019 | Ms A Clarke | BMC Recruitment Group Ltd | England & Wales | — |
| 4116734/2018 | 20 December 2019 | EMPLOYMENT TRIBUNALS (SCOTLAND) Case No: 4116734/2018 Mrs W McGeachie | East Ayrshire Council | Scotland | — |
| 3201895/2019 | 20 December 2019 | Ms C Collins | Allied Health-Services Limited` | England & Wales | — |
| 3201492/2018 | 19 December 2019 | Mr C Watson | Financial Ombudsman Service Limited | England & Wales | — |
| 2302605/2018 | 19 December 2019 | Ms B Joshua | London South Bank University Mr A McGrath | England & Wales | — |
| 3312410/2019 | 19 December 2019 | In person, supported by her Husband Mr J Nkala For the | Mrs S Shah, Solicitor | England & Wales | — |
| 4107280/2019 | 19 December 2019 | Mr R McAuley | Sandvik Materials Limited t/a Kanthal | Scotland | — |