How much compensation do whistleblowing claims award at an employment tribunal?

Across 587 UK whistleblowing tribunal cases with a recorded remedy since 2017, the median total award was £4,492 and the largest was £920,302.

What percentage of whistleblowing claims succeed at an employment tribunal?

Of 2,763 whistleblowing claims decided on the merits by UK tribunals, 14% were upheld.

How many UK whistleblowing employment tribunal cases are there?

Tribunal Watch has indexed 6,420 whistleblowing employment tribunal judgments published on gov.uk since 2017.

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Whistleblowing compensation & tribunal success rate — UK data (page 99) | Tribunal Watch

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Whistleblowing employment tribunal cases — UK data 2017–present

Name: Whistleblowing UK employment tribunal statistics
Creator: Tribunal Watch
License: https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/

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.

Total cases: 6,420
Median award: £4,492
Claims upheld: 14%
Largest single award: £920,302
Distinct employers: 6,112
England & Wales: 5,842
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 6,420 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Withdrawn	495	11%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 Settled and withdrawn claims are excluded from that rate.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.

Whistleblowing cases per year

2017–2026

Year	Cases	Trend
2017	87
2018	186
2019	829
2020	1,116
2021	745
2022	736
2023	769
2024	716
2025	775
2026	461

Largest whistleblowing awards

Top 8 by total award

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

Top employers — whistleblowing cases

20 ranked by case count

#	Employer	Cases
01	Royal Mail Group Limited	28
02	Asda Stores Limited	22
03	The Secretary of State for Justice	22
04	Tesco Stores Ltd	19
05	Mitie Limited	17
06	Ministry of Defence	14
07	Birmingham City Council	12
08	Department for Work and Pensions	12
09	Network Rail Infrastructure Limited	12
10	The Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis	12
11	Amazon UK Services Limited	9
12	GXO Logistics UK Limited	9
13	DPD Group UK Limited	8
14	Lewisham & Greenwich NHS Trust	8

All whistleblowing cases

6,420 cases · page 99 of 129 · chronological

Case ref.	Decided	Claimant	Primary respondent	Jurisdiction	Total award
2501607/2019	24 March 2020	Miss K Swainston	Tesco Bank Personal Finance plc (First Respondent) B (Second Respondent)	England & Wales	—
2404289/2018	24 March 2020	Dr Saleem Althaf	General Medical Council	England & Wales	—
1401613/2019	24 March 2020	Miss KA Buckling	The Jatis Project CIC	England & Wales	—
1807311/2019	24 March 2020	Mrs M Weastell	City of York Council	England & Wales	—
2207054/2020	23 March 2020	Ms C D’Souza, counsel For the	—	England & Wales	—
1405257/2018	23 March 2020	Miss T Simmons	City Facilities Management (UK) Ltd	England & Wales	—
1801349/2020	23 March 2020	Mr M Cartwright	Boots UK Limited	England & Wales	—
1806625/2019	23 March 2020	Mr P Finney	Citu Manufacturing Limited

Methodology

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.