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Whistleblowing employment tribunal cases — UK data 2017–present
Tribunal Watch has indexed 6,419 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.
Total cases
6,419
Median award
£4,492
Claims upheld
14%
Largest single award
£920,302
Distinct employers
6,112
England & Wales
5,841
Scotland
578
Compensation in whistleblowing cases
587 cases with a recorded award
Median
£4,492
Mean
£14,079
25th percentile
£1,262
75th percentile
£14,077
90th percentile
£29,098
Largest
£920,302
Figures are the total award recorded across cases that include a whistleblowing claim and a published remedy — 587 of 6,419 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
4,436 adjudicated claims
Outcome
Claims
Share
Dismissed
2,388
54%
Struck out
654
15%
Other
516
12%
Withdrawn
495
11%
Upheld
375
8%
Settled
8
0%
Counting only claims a tribunal decided on the merits (upheld or dismissed), 14% of whistleblowing claims were upheld — 375 of 2,763. Settled and withdrawn claims are excluded from that rate. Outcomes are recorded per claim, so a judgment can uphold one claim and dismiss another.
ETZ 4(WR) EMPLOYMENT TRIBUNALS (SCOTLAND) Case No: 4105229/2016 Preliminary Hearing at Edinburgh on March 2017 Employment Judge: M A Macleod Belinda Merrilees
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
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.
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