Employment tribunal success rates by claim type

In this analysis, Tribunal Intel is drawing on 38,402 claim-type tags from published employment tribunal judgments. To avoid drawing conclusions from tiny samples, this insight only ranks claim types with at least 10 tagged published cases. That leaves 38,402 tagged case appearances across 25 claim types.

On that filtered view, Protective Award has the highest claimant success rate at 91.8% across 182 tagged cases. That does not make it an “easy” claim; it means that, among published judgments currently indexed here, claimant-successful or partially-successful outcomes are more common in that tagged set.

The largest claim-type sample is Unfair Dismissal with 9,179 tagged cases. Its scale makes it useful for directional reading, but it also means the category mixes many factual situations, procedural histories, and remedies stages.

The practical takeaway is to read success rate, sample size, and compensation together. A small category with a high success rate may be less useful for planning than a larger category with a lower but more stable rate. A high average award can also be driven by a few exceptional cases rather than the ordinary value of that claim type. Median compensation is usually more stable, but it is still not reliable when only a handful of successful cases include recorded awards.