Outcomes
How often claimants win in published tribunal judgments.
The visible record is mixed. Some claimants win outright, some win only part of the case, and many published decisions end without a simple claimant-versus-respondent result.
In the current indexed set, claimants win or partially win 31.7% of visible published employment tribunal decisions. That is 7,783 claimant-successful or partially-successful cases out of 24,588 published decisions measured here.
That headline number needs context. Published judgments are not the same as every claim filed. Many cases settle privately, withdraw, or end without a published merits judgment. This page is a view of documented outcomes, not a prediction tool for a live case.
The split also matters. Full claimant wins account for 22.6% of the visible set. Partial wins account for 9.0%. Respondent-successful outcomes account for 27.5%.
Outcome breakdown
The published data does not reduce neatly to one win rate.
Corpus stats are documented outcomes only and are illustrative rather than a forecast for any individual claim.
A single success-rate figure is useful only if it keeps the messy middle visible: partial wins, strike-outs, withdrawals, settlements, and unclear outcomes.
Non-merits exits are a major part of the picture. Strike-outs, withdrawals, and settlements together account for 31.5% of the visible dataset. Those cases are important, but they do not answer the same question as a final tribunal decision on who was right.
Partial wins are also worth keeping separate. Employment tribunal claims often contain several allegations. A claimant might win a wages claim and lose discrimination allegations, or win on liability but recover less compensation than expected.
How this is measured
Tribunal Intel calculates these figures from structured outcome labels attached to published UK employment tribunal judgments in the indexed corpus. The source material comes from published GOV.UK decisions.
This is not the official administrative success rate for all claims. The Ministry of Justice publishes separate tribunal statistics covering receipts, disposals, and outstanding caseloads.
For that administrative view, see the Tribunal Statistics Quarterly: January to March 2026.
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Common questions
What is the employment tribunal success rate?
In Tribunal Intel's current published-judgment dataset, 31.7% of visible employment tribunal decisions are tagged as claimant-successful or partially successful. That is 7,783 cases out of 24,588 visible published decisions.
Is this the success rate for every employment tribunal claim?
No. This page measures published judgments indexed by Tribunal Intel. It is not a census of every claim filed with the tribunal system, because many cases settle, withdraw, or resolve without a published merits judgment.
Do settlements and withdrawals count as claimant wins?
No. Settlements and withdrawals are shown separately because they do not usually tell you whether the claimant would have won at a final merits hearing.
Why are partial wins counted separately?
Employment tribunal claims often include several allegations. A claimant may win one issue and lose others, so partial-success cases are useful to separate from clean claimant wins and respondent wins.
Which types of employment tribunal claim win most often?
Some types of claim win more often than others.
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