Claim pillar
Tribunal Watch has indexed 6,181 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 569 cases. Tribunals upheld 13% of the 2,658 decided whistleblowing claims. These cases name 5,890 distinct employers as respondents.
| Outcome | Claims | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Dismissed | 2,300 | 54% |
| Struck out | 627 | 15% |
| Withdrawn | 481 | 11% |
| Other | 481 | 11% |
| Upheld | 358 | 8% |
| Settled | 8 | 0% |
| Year | Cases | Trend |
|---|---|---|
| 2017 | 87 | |
| 2018 | 186 | |
| 2019 | 830 | |
| 2020 | 1,116 | |
| 2021 | 745 | |
| 2022 | 736 | |
| 2023 | 769 | |
| 2024 | 716 | |
| 2025 | 772 | |
| 2026 | 224 |
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1802968/2013 | 29 June 2017 | Mrs F Hassanzadeh | City of Bradford Metropolitan District Council | England & Wales | — |
| 2300416/2017 | 23 June 2017 | Mr Lieper QC, counsel For the | — | England & Wales | — |
| 4109600/2014 | 15 June 2017 | R Sorrell Mr R Brown | The Chief Constable st | Scotland | — |
| 1600737/2016 | 7 June 2017 | MR P PRITCHARD | Cardiff And Vale University Health Board | England & Wales | — |
| 4105634/2016 | 24 May 2017 | EMPLOYMENT TRIBUNALS (SCOTLAND) Case No: 4105634/2016 Mr J McVitie | M & J Timber Limited | Scotland | — |
| 4111035/2015 | 23 May 2017 | EMPLOYMENT TRIBUNALS (SCOTLAND) Case No: 4111035/2015 Mr G Calder | Represented by: Dr A Gibson WSP UK Ltd | Scotland | — |
| 4105667/2016 | 12 May 2017 | EMPLOYMENT TRIBUNALS (SCOTLAND) Case No: 4105667/2016 Mr D Johnston | Represented by: Ms D Miller Solicitor Rockwell Solutions Limited | Scotland | — |
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 | Lancashire County Council | 7 |
| 16 | Lidl Great Britain Limited | 7 |
| 17 | Limited (in Liquidation) | 7 |
| 18 | London Borough of Newham | 7 |
| 19 | Serco Limited | 7 |
| 20 | Barclays Bank UK plc | 6 |
| 1601672/2014 | 8 May 2017 | - MS J RICHARDS ( SOLICITOR) FOR THE | — | England & Wales | — |
| 3200245/2017 | 5 May 2017 | Mr W Augustine | Econnect Cars Ltd | England & Wales | — |
| 4100190/2017 | 24 April 2017 | L Doherty Mr T Wood | Data Garage UK Limited | Scotland | £1,584 |
| 2361802/2013 | 20 April 2017 | — | Quality Solicitors A-Z Law and others | England & Wales | — |
| 3303285/2015 | 6 April 2017 | in person For the | — | England & Wales | — |
| 4105229/2016 | 4 April 2017 | ETZ 4(WR) EMPLOYMENT TRIBUNALS (SCOTLAND) Case No: 4105229/2016 Preliminary Hearing at Edinburgh on March 2017 Employment Judge: M A Macleod Belinda Merrilees | Kestrel Ophthalmics Ltd | Scotland | — |
| 2601994/2016 | 30 March 2017 | Miss Jane Marie Beresford | Leicestershire Partnership NHS Trust PRELIMINARY HEARING | England & Wales | — |
| 4104178/2016 | 29 March 2017 | EMPLOYMENT TRIBUNALS (SCOTLAND) Case No: 4104178/2016 Ms SJ Wilson | Royal Mail Group Limited | Scotland | — |
| 2412080/2013 | 28 March 2017 | Mr O Oyesanya | The Pennine Acute Hospitals NHS Trust | England & Wales | — |
| 4100110/2016 | 21 March 2017 | ETZ 4(WR) EMPLOYMENT TRIBUNALS (SCOTLAND) Case No: 4100110/2016 Hearing at Edinburgh on 16, 17, 18, 20, 23, 24, and January 20175 Employment Judge: M A Macleod Ms M Perrett Mr I Drysdale Jacqueline Brown | West Lothian Council | Scotland | — |
| 2301971/2016 | 15 March 2017 | Mr D Nielsen-Von Reitzig | Royal Mail Group Limited | England & Wales | — |
| 3328149/2017 | 15 March 2017 | Ms S Sleeman (Counsel) For the | — | England & Wales | — |
| 2210794/2015 | 15 March 2017 | In person For the | — | England & Wales | — |
| 2301370/2016 | 15 March 2017 | Mr A Dobbie | 1) Paula Felton t/a Felton Solicitors 2) Felton Solicitors 3) Ms C Duncan | England & Wales | — |
| 4104112/2016 | 14 March 2017 | EMPLOYMENT TRIBUNALS (SCOTLAND) Case No: 4104112/2016 Mr A McGregor | BSW Timber Limited | Scotland | — |
| 1303993/2015 | 13 March 2017 | in person For the | Mrs M Peckham, solicitor | England & Wales | — |
| 4102780/2016 | 10 March 2017 | EMPLOYMENT TRIBUNALS (SCOTLAND) Case no. 4102780/2016 held at Aberdeen on 20, and February 2017 Employment Judge: W A Meiklejohn Members: Ms E Coyle Ms G Powell Mr Kenneth Martin Pinkard | — | Scotland | — |
| 4100027/2017 | 3 March 2017 | — | Dr A Chowdry | Scotland | £716 |
| 4102498/2016 | 28 February 2017 | Members: Mr K Thomson Mr V P Alexander Mrs Mary McLaughlin | Represented by: Mrs A Forsyth – Solicitor Nurseplus Limited | Scotland | — |
| 4100594/2016 | 24 February 2017 | EMPLOYMENT TRIBUNALS (SCOTLAND) Case No: 4100594/2016 Mr P McDade | Serco Limited | Scotland | — |
| 4103235/2015 | 23 February 2017 | : Mr WS Gray Mr J Priestley Mr DI Nutt | Represented by: In person Scottish & Southern Energy plc | Scotland | — |
| 4100932/2016 | 21 February 2017 | C Lucas (Sitting Alone) Mrs Tracey Taylor | — | Scotland | — |
| 2302126/2016 | 16 February 2017 | — | (1) South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust (2) Sally Dibben | England & Wales | — |
| 3202272/2015 | 9 February 2017 | Mr A Smith | Mid Essex Hospital Services NHS Trust | England & Wales | — |