The 10 Highest Employment Tribunal Compensation Awards on TribDB
Published April 2026 | Data from 130,000+ UK tribunal decisions
Employment Tribunal awards can reach enormous sums, particularly where whistleblowing or disability discrimination is involved. Both are uncapped, and that matters a great deal when you look at what ends up in the database. We pulled the ten largest compensation awards from our 130,000+ decision dataset, filtering for cases with full decision text available.
Together, these ten cases account for over £44.8 million in tribunal awards.
1. Mboungueng v Utilities Design and Planning Ltd — £23,790,000
Case ref: 2400949/2022 Date: 25 October 2024 | Region: England and Wales Claims: Race discrimination, public interest disclosure, unfair dismissal, breach of contract, unlawful deduction from wages
The largest award in our database by a considerable margin. Race discrimination and whistleblowing together, heard at Manchester before Employment Judge Mellor with a lay panel over four days in September-October 2024. The combination of uncapped heads of claim is what produces numbers like this.
2. Herve v Goldstein and Sareen — £9,429,151
Case ref: 2201510/2021 and others Date: 12 November 2022 | Region: England and Wales Claims: Whistleblowing, unfair dismissal, breach of contract, health and safety, unlawful deduction from wages, working time regulations
A multi-respondent claim heard at London Central over five days. The claimant was represented by counsel against two individual respondents. Six separate claim types, which is fairly typical at this end of the scale.
3. Wright-Turner v London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham — £3,780,587
Case ref: 2206237/2018 Date: 5 November 2021 | Region: England and Wales Claims: Disability discrimination, public interest disclosure, unfair dismissal, breach of contract
A local authority case heard over an extended listing at London Central via video. The claimant was represented by Mr B Collins QC. Claims ran against both the council and an individual respondent. Public sector employers tend to feature heavily in the higher-value disability discrimination cases.
4. Marley v Premier EA and FS Ltd — £1,531,638
Case ref: 3206724/2021 and 3200767/2022 Date: 12 October 2023 | Region: England and Wales Claims: Pregnancy and maternity discrimination, public interest disclosure, unfair dismissal, unlawful deduction from wages
Claims against the company and two individual respondents. Five days at East London. One of the largest pregnancy discrimination awards on record. Again, the public interest disclosure claim is what removes the cap.
5. Goodall v Big Issue Sharebike Ltd (In Liquidation) — £1,223,250
Case ref: 4104611/2024 Date: 25 October 2024 | Region: Scotland Claims: Unfair dismissal, breach of contract, unlawful deduction from wages, working time regulations
Heard at Aberdeen. The respondent was in liquidation and did not attend. The claimant represented himself. Default judgments in insolvency cases tend to produce large awards for an obvious reason: nobody turns up to contest the calculation.
6. Waring v Fastrax Conveyors Rollers Ltd — £1,123,076
Case ref: 6007531/2024 Date: 29 July 2025 | Region: England and Wales Claims: Unfair dismissal, breach of contract, unlawful deduction from wages
A remote hearing before Employment Judge R Wood. The respondent's managing director appeared in person. A relatively straightforward set of claims that nonetheless produced a seven-figure award.
7. Maslouh v MBA Michael Bailey Associates Ltd — £1,110,690
Case ref: 2213425/2023 Date: 28 January 2025 | Region: England and Wales Claims: Disability discrimination, public interest disclosure, unfair dismissal, unlawful deduction from wages
Heard at London Central. The claimant initially applied for interim relief, which signals whistleblowing was central to the case. The interim relief application was refused, but the claimant succeeded at full hearing. Seven figures despite losing the interim application.
8. Rayner v East of England Ambulance Service — £1,029,450
Case ref: 3302176/2020 and 3303126/2021 Date: 19 April 2022 | Region: England and Wales Claims: Disability discrimination, unlawful deduction from wages
Eight days at Cambridge. Both parties had counsel. The NHS ambulance service context is worth being aware of: disability discrimination claims in emergency services tend to be high-value because of the earnings trajectory and the severity of the employment impact when things go wrong.
9. Sheikholeslami v The University of Edinburgh — £1,000,000
Case ref: 4102702/2012 and 4107069/2012 Date: 31 January 2025 | Region: Scotland Claims: Sex discrimination, disability discrimination, unfair dismissal, unlawful deduction from wages
Originally filed in 2012, heard across numerous dates in 2015-2016 at Edinburgh, and not resolved until 2025. Thirteen years from filing to outcome. The protracted timeline reflects how complex multi-ground discrimination claims against large institutions play out when contested at every stage.
10. Yates v Richard Newton Consulting Ltd — £850,000
Case ref: 1601627/2022 Date: 13 January 2025 | Region: England and Wales (Cardiff) Claims: Disability discrimination, unfair dismissal, breach of contract, unlawful deduction from wages
Heard at Cardiff by video. Disability discrimination combined with contractual claims. The Welsh jurisdiction cases in this dataset are underrepresented relative to England, which makes this one stand out.
What the data actually shows
Six of the top 10 involve whistleblowing (public interest disclosure). Six involve disability discrimination. Both claims are uncapped on compensation. If you are assessing quantum risk in a case that involves either, treat the ceiling as theoretical rather than real.
A few other things worth drawing out from this list:
- Multiple claim types are standard at the top end. Claimants rarely succeed on a single head alone. The large awards come from stacking claims where one or more removes the cap.
- Legal representation correlates with the larger awards, but not universally. The Goodall case (no. 5) was a £1.2m default judgment by an unrepresented claimant against a company that did not show up.
- NHS and public sector employers appear repeatedly. That is partly a function of case complexity and career length, and partly because public sector dismissals in professional roles carry more obvious earning trajectory evidence.
- Scotland features twice in the top 10, both times in claims involving discrimination. The jurisdiction difference is worth being aware of when researching comparable cases.
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Data sourced from GOV.UK and the National Archives. Compensation amounts extracted from decision text. All decisions are public records. Last updated April 2026.