How often claimants actually win in published tribunal judgments
A data-backed look at claimant win rates in the published employment tribunal judgments currently indexed, including merits wins, partial wins, strike-outs, and withdrawals.
Claimant wins
28.3%
5,493 claimant or partial wins out of 19,407 visible cases
Respondent wins
30.6%
5,932 published judgments are tagged as respondent-successful
Non-merits exits
33.5%
6,497 cases end as strike-outs, withdrawals, or settlements
Unclear / other
7.7%
1,485 visible cases are outside the main outcome buckets shown below
What the current published data says
Tribunal Intel currently indexes 19,407 visible employment tribunal decisions in this dataset view. Of those, 5,493 are tagged as either fully claimant-successful or partially successful.
That works out to roughly 28.3%. In other words, published judgments in this dataset are not dominated by claimant wins. Respondent-successful outcomes on their own currently account for 5,932 cases, which is about 30.6% of the visible set.
A large block of cases also never reach a clean claimant-versus-respondent merits win at all. Strike-outs, withdrawals, and published settlements together account for 6,497 cases, or 33.5%.
That matters because users often ask “how often do claimants win?” as if every published case ends in a straight merits judgment. The published record is messier than that: many cases exit on procedural grounds, are withdrawn, or are recorded in forms that do not map neatly onto a simple claimant win rate.
Outcome mix in the current visible dataset
How to interpret the headline number
Published cases are selective
The published judgments skew toward cases that reached a tribunal decision point. That is not the same thing as all claims issued, negotiated, or resolved.
Procedure matters
Strike-outs and withdrawals are a large enough share of the visible record that a simple claimant-vs-respondent framing leaves out a meaningful part of the dataset.
Partial success still counts
A claimant can win something important without winning every issue. That is why partial-success cases are worth separating out rather than folding them into a crude pass/fail headline.