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

Across 581 UK whistleblowing tribunal cases with a recorded remedy since 2017, the median total award was £4,354 and the largest was £920,302.

What percentage of whistleblowing claims succeed at an employment tribunal?

Of 2,723 whistleblowing claims decided on the merits by UK tribunals, 14% were upheld.

How many UK whistleblowing employment tribunal cases are there?

Tribunal Watch has indexed 6,289 whistleblowing employment tribunal judgments published on gov.uk since 2017.

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Whistleblowing employment tribunal cases — UK data 2017–present

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

Tribunal Watch has indexed 6,289 UK employment tribunal cases involving whistleblowing claims, published on gov.uk since 2017. Where compensation was recorded, the median award was £4,354 (the largest £920,302) across 581 cases. Tribunals upheld 14% of the 2,723 decided whistleblowing claims. These cases name 5,997 distinct employers as respondents.

Total cases: 6,289
Median award: £4,354
Claims upheld: 14%
Largest single award: £920,302
Distinct employers: 5,997
England & Wales: 5,729
Scotland: 560

Compensation in whistleblowing cases

581 cases with a recorded award

Median: £4,354
Mean: £14,112
25th percentile: £1,258
75th percentile: £14,026
90th percentile: £29,573
Largest: £920,302

Figures are the total award recorded across cases that include a whistleblowing claim and a published remedy — 581 of 6,289 whistleblowing 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 whistleblowing claims

4,367 adjudicated claims

Outcome	Claims	Share
Dismissed	2,355	54%
Struck out	644	15%
Other	504	12%
Withdrawn	488	11%
Upheld	368	8%
Settled	8	0%

Counting only claims a tribunal decided on the merits (upheld or dismissed), 14% of whistleblowing claims were upheld — 368 of 2,723. Settled and withdrawn claims are excluded from that rate. Outcomes are recorded per claim, so a judgment can uphold one claim and dismiss another.

Whistleblowing cases per year

2017–2026

Year	Cases	Trend
2017	87
2018	186
2019	829
2020	1,116
2021	745
2022	736
2023	769
2024	716
2025	771
2026	334

Largest whistleblowing awards

Top 8 by total award

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

Top employers — whistleblowing cases

20 ranked by case count

#	Employer	Cases
01	Royal Mail Group Limited	26
02	The Secretary of State for Justice	22
03	Asda Stores Limited	19
04	Tesco Stores Ltd	18
05	Mitie Limited	17
06	Ministry of Defence	14
07	Birmingham City Council	12
08	The Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis	12
09	Department for Work and Pensions	11
10	Network Rail Infrastructure Limited	11
11	Amazon UK Services Limited	8
12	DPD Group UK Limited	8
13	Lewisham & Greenwich NHS Trust	8
14	Transport for London	8

All whistleblowing cases

6,289 cases · page 113 of 126 · chronological

Case ref.	Decided	Claimant	Primary respondent	Jurisdiction	Total award
3302854/2018	14 September 2019	Mrs J Laing-Phillips	Connaught Academy Trust	England & Wales	—
3307644/2018	14 September 2019	Miss S Davies	The Finedon Old Band Club Ltd & Kevin Marlow	England & Wales	—
3314503/2019	13 September 2019	Mr P Addison	Redline Buses Ltd	England & Wales	—
2300565/2018	13 September 2019	Mr N Pattenden	Vinci Construction U K Limited	England & Wales	—
3307505/2018	13 September 2019	Mr G Clarke	E-Voyages Limited	England & Wales	—
1400306/2019	13 September 2019	Ms I Allen	Lockleaze Neighbourhood Trust	England & Wales	—
3303056/2018	13 September 2019	In person, accompanied by friend Mrs J Simfield For the	—	England & Wales	—
1802066/2019	13 September 2019	Miss T Gilfillan

Methodology

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.