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| Withdrawn | 495 | 11% |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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2207352/2017 | 23 July 2020 | Mr B Vadgama | BT Group plc | England & Wales | — |
| 2206127/2018 | 23 July 2020 | — | UK CAT and others | England & Wales | — |
| 2601989/2020 | 22 July 2020 | Ms K Garcha | Coping With Cancer In Leicestershire & Rutland | England & Wales | — |
| 2201531/2020 | 21 July 2020 | Ms M Hancock | Securitas Security Services (UK) Limited | England & Wales | — |
| 2500984/2020 | 21 July 2020 | Mr DJ Stockdale | Cleveland Bridge UK Limited (in administration) | England & Wales | — |
| 3303401/2019 | 21 July 2020 | Mr C Dos Santos | Morrisons | England & Wales | — |
| 1802302/2020 | 21 July 2020 | Luke Harrowsmith | Hmi Elements Ltd | England & Wales | — |
| 2500230/2020 | 21 July 2020 | Ms D Thompson | Prestwick Care Ltd PUBLIC PRELIMINARY HEARING Heard |
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 |
| England & Wales |
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| 2408104/2020 | 21 July 2020 | Mr C Watson | Wallwork Nelson & Johnson | England & Wales | — |
| 1800391/2020 | 20 July 2020 | Miss S McConnell | Superfood Market Online Ltd Mr Mark Andrews Mrs Gemma Andrews | England & Wales | — |
| 1806853/2019 | 20 July 2020 | Mr JE Holden | Irwin Mitchell LLP | England & Wales | — |
| 3200733/2020 | 20 July 2020 | Mr D Kalirai | Hamton Environmental Services Limited & Aston Martin Lagonda Global Holdings plc | England & Wales | — |
| 2402520/2020 | 20 July 2020 | Mr A Nattrass | James Fisher plc | England & Wales | — |
| 3321591/2019 | 18 July 2020 | Mr RP Lorenz | Bio-Techne Ltd | England & Wales | — |
| 3321394/2019 | 18 July 2020 | — | Reid-Baptiste v London Borough of Harrow Council and others | England & Wales | — |
| 3310871/2019 | 18 July 2020 | Mr T Daniels | Burckhardt Compression (UK) Ltd | England & Wales | — |
| 3320675/2019 | 18 July 2020 | Mr J Taylor | Sainsburys Supermarkets Ltd | England & Wales | — |
| 3314700/2020 | 17 July 2020 | Miss Darcey Foulser | Anthony Katrina Associates Limited trading as AKA Communications | England & Wales | — |
| 2301872/2019 | 17 July 2020 | Mrs G Harding-Jones | South Thames College Group | England & Wales | — |
| 2300807/2020 | 17 July 2020 | (1) Mr A Tayson (2) Mrs N Tayson | Wentworth International College | England & Wales | — |
| 1802221/2020 | 16 July 2020 | Mr Imran Khan | Lowell Financial Ltd | England & Wales | — |
| 2416665/2019 | 16 July 2020 | Ms L Benyon | Gorgemead Limited | England & Wales | — |
| 1804957/2019 | 16 July 2020 | Mr S Wakeham | Amalgamated Construction Limited | England & Wales | — |
| 3332626/2018 | 16 July 2020 | Mr S George | Lloyds pharmacy | England & Wales | — |
| 2303263/2018 | 16 July 2020 | — | St Edward Homes Ltd (‘SEH’) and Others | England & Wales | — |
| 2500118/2020 | 16 July 2020 | Ms K Mottram | Washington Inventory Services | England & Wales | — |
| 1402551/2018 | 15 July 2020 | Mrs Tiffany Simmonds | Mrs Sarah Bell | England & Wales | £9,717 |
| 1801700/2020 | 15 July 2020 | Mr D Endicott | Thrillermill CNC Precision Machining Ltd | England & Wales | — |
| 4114389/2019 | 15 July 2020 | Mr Alex Forootan | Alliance Trust Savings Limited | Scotland | — |
| 1805118/2019 | 15 July 2020 | Mrs K Keighley | Five Rivers Childcare Limited | England & Wales | — |
| 1400332/2020 | 14 July 2020 | — | McLellan v Mendip Golf Club Ltd | England & Wales | — |
| 2300475/2019 | 14 July 2020 | — | Citizens Advice Merton & Lambeth | England & Wales | — |
| 2304845/2019 | 14 July 2020 | Miss K Gilruth | The Good Care Group Limited | England & Wales | — |
| 1300384/2020 | 14 July 2020 | Mrs J Sutherland | Pat Black’s Caribbean Kitchen (Martineau Place) Limited | England & Wales | — |
| 3313246/2020 | 13 July 2020 | Mr L Bronze, Counsel For the | — | England & Wales | — |
| 1400597/2019 | 13 July 2020 | Mrs N M K Brake (1) and Mr A Y Brake (2) | Axnoller Events Ltd | England & Wales | — |
| 4108797/2019 | 13 July 2020 | EMPLOYMENT TRIBUNALS (SCOTLAND) Case No: 4108797/2019 Ms E Stewart | Represented by: Mr J E MacMillan Solicitor British Transport Police st | Scotland | — |
| 2401592/2019 | 13 July 2020 | Mr D Seale | Virgin Media Limited | England & Wales | — |
| 3302213/2020 | 13 July 2020 | Mr IN Regos | Care Concern Group Limited | Scotland | — |
| 2302825/2019 | 10 July 2020 | Mr N Green | Ontrak UK Limited | England & Wales | — |
| 2414743/2019 | 10 July 2020 | Mr G Graham | Liverpool John Moores University | England & Wales | — |
| 3202470/2018 | 10 July 2020 | Mr A Walters | London Southend Airport Company Ltd. | England & Wales | — |
| 4102930/2019 | 10 July 2020 | Mr C Stewart | Asda Stores Limited | Scotland | — |
| 2201513/2020 | 10 July 2020 | Ms R Titmarsh | Ngosa Ltd | England & Wales | — |
| 2301394/2019 | 10 July 2020 | Mr R Vizi | The Secretary of State for Justice | England & Wales | — |
| 1801483/2020 | 10 July 2020 | Mr P Seaton | Northern Health Ltd | England & Wales | — |
| 2407430/2023 | 9 July 2020 | Miss D Burns | The Chief Constable of Greater Manchester Police | England & Wales | — |
| 1400148/2020 | 9 July 2020 | Mr A Tadros | BMI Healthcare | England & Wales | — |
| 2200277/2020 | 9 July 2020 | Mr A Sheikh | G4S Secure Solutions (UK) Limited | England & Wales | — |
| 3321542/2019 | 9 July 2020 | Mr S Crisp | Atlas Care Services Ltd | England & Wales | — |