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| Withdrawn | 495 | 11% |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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2402554/2019 | 30 April 2020 | Mr R Earl | 1) Maj Law Limited 2) Marcus Ashley Johnstone | England & Wales | — |
| 2303698/2019 | 29 April 2020 | Mr Echenegi Jude Ajabor | Asda Stores Limited | England & Wales | — |
| 1405749/2019 | 29 April 2020 | Mrs R Saro | NHS Bristol, North Somerset and South Gloucestershire Clinical Commissioning Group | England & Wales | — |
| 1805453/2019 | 29 April 2020 | — | Harlow Pizza Ltd and Ali Hazra | England & Wales | £5,124 |
| 2410754/2019 | 29 April 2020 | — | Sykamiotis v Hydes Brewery Ltd | England & Wales | — |
| 2416607/2019 | 29 April 2020 | B Whittaker | Lancashire County Council | England & Wales | — |
| 1400145/2020 | 29 April 2020 | Mr L Owens | John Lewis and Partners | England & Wales | — |
| 2401264/2020 |
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 |
| 28 April 2020 |
| Mr I Dupere |
| University of Manchester |
| England & Wales |
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| 3319457/2019 | 28 April 2020 | Mr T Smith | And R1 – Joan Smith R2 – Clive Smith Oxford Limited Private Preliminary Hearing (Case Management) | England & Wales | — |
| 1800161/2020 | 27 April 2020 | Ms M Pirrone | Grimes Shellfish Ltd | England & Wales | £1,399 |
| 2601798/2018 | 27 April 2020 | Mr D Glavey | E.ON Energy Solutions Limited | England & Wales | — |
| 1801305/2020 | 27 April 2020 | Ms T Nelson | North Yorkshire County Council | England & Wales | — |
| 3320841/2019 | 27 April 2020 | — | Fallaize v Appliance Repair Specialist Ltd | England & Wales | — |
| 1801196/2020 | 27 April 2020 | Mr M Wakefield | Adomast Manufacturing Limited | England & Wales | — |
| 1805100/2019 | 27 April 2020 | Ms J Tarren | NGP Utilities Limited Kieran Dixon Louis Bailey Graeme Peat Fokhrul Islam Leah Barrett | England & Wales | — |
| 1402921/2019 | 24 April 2020 | Miss C Foster | Barbara Rose Pre-School | England & Wales | — |
| 4101977/2020 | 24 April 2020 | EMPLOYMENT TRIBUNALS (SCOTLAND) Case No: 4101977/2020 Mr M Turner | — | Scotland | — |
| 2304616/2019 | 24 April 2020 | Mrs F Simmonds | Sutton Community Transport Charity Co | England & Wales | — |
| 3300046/2019 | 24 April 2020 | Mr T Tabi | Royal Mail Group Limited | England & Wales | — |
| 1801370/2020 | 23 April 2020 | Mr Sellek (solicitor) For the | Mr Crebbin (solicitor) | England & Wales | — |
| 1807400/2019 | 23 April 2020 | Mr A | Persimmon Group plc | England & Wales | — |
| 2600032/2020 | 23 April 2020 | Mr. N. Ithia | Key Electrical Solutions Ltd (t/a Key Electrical) | England & Wales | — |
| 2204614/2019 | 23 April 2020 | — | Creative Production Service Ltd | England & Wales | £2,598 |
| 2204140/2019 | 23 April 2020 | Mr J Mikula | Future Finance Loan Corporation Limited | England & Wales | — |
| 1405986/2019 | 22 April 2020 | Mr S McGrath | SWL Security Services | England & Wales | — |
| 2410630/2019 | 22 April 2020 | Mr M Dacks | Consilium Academies | England & Wales | — |
| 2500372/2020 | 22 April 2020 | Mrs P Slater | Learning Curve Group | England & Wales | — |
| 3310911/2020 | 22 April 2020 | Mr C Fernandes | St James Court Hotel Ltd | England & Wales | — |
| 2410204/2019 | 21 April 2020 | Mr Josh Collins | Jenny Formby (sued as a representative of all members of The Labour Party except the claimant) | England & Wales | — |
| 1800907/2020 | 21 April 2020 | Mr J Standing | Facultatieve Technologies Limited | England & Wales | — |
| 1801190/2020 | 20 April 2020 | In person | — | England & Wales | — |
| 3324958/2019 | 20 April 2020 | Mr N Harris | Hovis Ltd | England & Wales | — |
| 3314052/2019 | 20 April 2020 | Mr M Dine | Kingdom Services Group Limited | England & Wales | — |
| 3325658/2019 | 19 April 2020 | In person For the | Mr D.E. - Director of the First Respondent and husband of the Second Respondent | England & Wales | — |
| 2304310/2019 | 17 April 2020 | Mr J Neckles (Union representative) For the | Ms M Guilding (Solicitor) | England & Wales | — |
| 3326162/2019 | 17 April 2020 | Mr Brayshaw, Claimant’s partner and lay representative | — | England & Wales | — |
| 2200776/2019 | 16 April 2020 | Mr H Elmadbouch | Ramsay Health Care UK | England & Wales | — |
| 2206838/2018 | 16 April 2020 | Mrs A Grigorian | Equiti Capital UK Limited (the Second Respondent / R2) | England & Wales | — |
| 1401001/2020 | 16 April 2020 | Mr M Habani | Hovis Ltd | England & Wales | — |
| 2200779/2019 | 16 April 2020 | Mr C Griffin | Hume Brophy Communications | England & Wales | — |
| 2303697/2019 | 16 April 2020 | Ms Maxwell | Kent and Meadway NHS & Social Care Partnership Trust | England & Wales | — |
| 2206984/2018 | 16 April 2020 | Mr P Jiang | Nomura International plc | England & Wales | — |
| 1807535/2019 | 16 April 2020 | — | Capita Retail Finance Services Ltd and Clydesdale Bank plc | England & Wales | — |
| 2205173/2019 | 16 April 2020 | Mr T Poynter | DTZ Management Services Limited | England & Wales | — |
| 1801331/2020 | 15 April 2020 | Miss S Maynard | Leeds Beckett University | England & Wales | — |
| 3201818/2017 | 15 April 2020 | — | On Air Dining Ltd | England & Wales | £82,608 |
| 2303776/2019 | 15 April 2020 | Mrs G Smith | Abdo College of Education | England & Wales | — |
| 3304065/2018 | 15 April 2020 | Mr A J Linney | Elite Business Systems UK Limited | England & Wales | — |
| 2202447/2019 | 15 April 2020 | Miss K Doxey | 1) Cushman & Wakefield 2) Cushman & Wakefield Debenham Tie Leung Ltd | England & Wales | — |
| 1801246/2020 | 15 April 2020 | Mr A Lawson | Indigo Care Services Ltd. T/A Orchard Care Homes TELEPHONE PRIVATE PRELIMINARY HEARING | England & Wales | — |