Claim pillar
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.
| Outcome | Claims | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Dismissed | 2,355 | 54% |
| Struck out | 644 | 15% |
| Other | 504 | 12% |
| Withdrawn | 488 | 11% |
| Upheld | 368 | 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 | 771 | |
| 2026 | 334 |
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2201560/2021 | 4 November 2022 | In person For the First | Ipay Solutions Ltd (In Liquidation) and Mr S Kuganathan | England & Wales | — |
| 2201676/2022 | 3 November 2022 | In person For the | — | England & Wales | — |
| 1404056/2021 | 3 November 2022 | Ms Joanne Groom | The Rising Sun Limited | England & Wales | £20,010 |
| 3205893/2021 | 3 November 2022 | Mr C Htwe | Runwood Homes Ltd | England & Wales | — |
| 2303253/2021 | 2 November 2022 | Mr C Nimenko Parkes | Joy Wemms t/a Wemms Education Centre Heard by video | England & Wales | — |
| 2415940/2020 | 1 November 2022 | Mrs K Hunter | Tameside College | England & Wales | — |
| 1300623/2021 | 1 November 2022 | In person For the | Mayflower Law Ltd (in Creditors Voluntary Liquidation) and others | England & Wales | — |
| 2305774/2021 | 1 November 2022 |
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 | GXO Logistics UK Limited | 7 |
| 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 |
| Mr A Backer |
| Magdalene Limited Sharon Smith Wendi Cochrane Steve Harlowe |
| England & Wales |
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| 1601561/2021 | 1 November 2022 | Ms Ewelina Butkiewicz | CAD Services Ltd t/a Facilities by ADF | England & Wales | — |
| 2207643/2021 | 1 November 2022 | Mr B Kristensen | Portman Healthcare Limited | England & Wales | — |
| 1403821/2020 | 31 October 2022 | Miss C Ritcher | Bath Cricket Club | England & Wales | — |
| 3301186/2021 | 30 October 2022 | Mr K McDonald | Ministry of Defence | England & Wales | — |
| 3306456/2021 | 27 October 2022 | Mr G Price | Phyllis Court Members Club Limited By: CVP | England & Wales | — |
| 3311752/2021 | 27 October 2022 | Not present or represented For the | — | England & Wales | — |
| 4102606/2020 | 26 October 2022 | : I Ashraf and A Grant Mr K McDonagh | ’s wife Greater Glasgow Health Board | Scotland | £936 |
| 1404365/2021 | 26 October 2022 | Ms A F De Araujo | Dr A Edwards and Mrs L Edwards t/a Park Cottage Dental Practice | England & Wales | — |
| 1400025/2022 | 25 October 2022 | Mr F Silveira | Trak Employment Solutions Limited | England & Wales | — |
| 1804841/2020 | 24 October 2022 | Mr S Felce | Network Rail Infrastructure Ltd Heard in Leeds by CVP | England & Wales | — |
| 3300550/2022 | 24 October 2022 | Mr C Butler | CareTech Community Services Limited | England & Wales | — |
| 3201150/2020 | 24 October 2022 | Mr M Shovon | Sainsbury’s Supermarkets Limited | England & Wales | — |
| 2602886/2021 | 22 October 2022 | Miss D Emery | FedEx Express UK Transportation Limited | England & Wales | — |
| 3305075/2020 | 21 October 2022 | Mr S Thomson | Furniture Village Limited | England & Wales | — |
| 2305691/2020 | 21 October 2022 | Mr S Kinkela | Bouygues E&S Solutions Limited | England & Wales | — |
| 2204175/2021 | 21 October 2022 | Mr T Doyle | Goldman Sachs International & others | England & Wales | — |
| 2601832/2022 | 21 October 2022 | Mrs S Foxcroft | Hales Group Limited Niche Care Limited | England & Wales | — |
| 1305095/2021 | 20 October 2022 | Mr H Singh | Lionhart Security Services Limited | England & Wales | £1,539 |
| 3314145/2021 | 20 October 2022 | Kara Jackson | Sudbury House Hotel | England & Wales | — |
| 1805881/2021 | 19 October 2022 | Ms C Hoey | Riverside Surgery | England & Wales | — |
| 4113831/2021 | 18 October 2022 | Member I Ashraf Tribunal Member J McCaig Miss J Craig | Represented by Mr M Bertram - CAB Advisor Community Integrated Care | Scotland | £9,459 |
| 3300035/2022 | 18 October 2022 | Ms A Musa | Reckitt Benckiser Health Limited | England & Wales | — |
| 2401369/2021 | 17 October 2022 | In person | Healthcare Headhunters Limited trading as Lastminute Care & Nursing | England & Wales | — |
| 2401461/2021 | 17 October 2022 | In person | Healthcare Headhunters Limited trading as Lastminute Care & Nursing | England & Wales | — |
| 3335363/2018 | 17 October 2022 | in person (by CVP) For the | — | England & Wales | — |
| 3322639/2021 | 14 October 2022 | Ms B Chamay | Société Air France | England & Wales | — |
| 2400599/2021 | 14 October 2022 | Mr A Bailey First | Second Respondent: ARH UK Limited Mr I Coll | England & Wales | £26,106 |
| 2302017/2021 | 14 October 2022 | Miss O Ayinde | Lisa Lucas | England & Wales | — |
| 4110351/2019 | 13 October 2022 | P O’Hagan and S Singh Miss G Neill | Big Bird Nursery (Larkhall) Limited (in Liquidation) | Scotland | — |
| 3207485/2021 | 13 October 2022 | Mr M Miah | FIS Capital Markets UK Limited | England & Wales | £15,619 |
| 3303452/2019 | 13 October 2022 | Miss R Molana | RNR Properties Limited | England & Wales | — |
| 2204164/2021 | 13 October 2022 | Mr P. Mihaj | National Union of Rail, Maritime and Transport Workers | England & Wales | — |
| 4111342/2021 | 13 October 2022 | E.T. Z (WR) EMPLOYMENT TRIBUNALS (SCOTLAND) Case No: 4111342/20215 Held at Aberdeen on September 2022 (V) Employment Judge N M Hosie Mr P Jurgiel | Robertson Facilities Management Ltd | Scotland | — |
| 3302680/2020 | 13 October 2022 | Ms L Towu | Whitefield School | England & Wales | £3,150 |
| 3335124/2018 | 13 October 2022 | Miss R Molana | Ingenious Power Engineering Limited | England & Wales | — |
| 2300534/2022 | 12 October 2022 | Mr M Messai | B&Q Limited | England & Wales | — |
| 3313187/2020 | 12 October 2022 | Mr A Korn, Counsel For the | Ms A Mayhew, of His Majesty’s Counsel | England & Wales | — |
| 2300217/2020 | 12 October 2022 | Ms S Thompson | The Mayor and Burgesses of the London Borough of Merton RECORD OF A PRELIMINARY HEARING Heard by telephone (London South) | England & Wales | — |
| 1803518/2022 | 12 October 2022 | Mr C Foster | United Anodisers Ltd | England & Wales | — |
| 2202843/2022 | 12 October 2022 | In person For the | Oliver Lawrence Counsel | England & Wales | — |
| 2410434/2021 | 11 October 2022 | Mr M Hamlet | Crystal Architectural Aluminium Limited | England & Wales | — |