Claim Success Checker
See how often similar employment claims succeed at tribunal.
CaseIntel provides benchmarking data — not legal advice.
CaseIntel is a benchmarking service based on publicly available Employment Tribunal decisions published on GOV.UK. We provide evidence and context — not advice. Always consult a qualified employment solicitor before making any decision about your case.
Do I have a strong Employment Tribunal claim?
A strong Employment Tribunal claim is more than a strong sense of injustice. Tribunals decide cases against specific statutory tests: was there a qualifying legal right, was it breached, and can the claimant prove it on the balance of probabilities? Two employees with similar-sounding grievances can end up with very different outcomes because the facts fit — or fail to fit — those tests.
The most reliable way to gauge whether you have a case is to compare your circumstances with genuinely comparable published tribunal decisions rather than relying on general success rates. Our unfair dismissal guide and constructive dismissal guide explain the statutory tests tribunals apply.
How do you know if you have a case?
Ask three practical questions before anything else:
- Is there a qualifying legal claim? Unfair dismissal, discrimination, whistleblowing, unlawful deductions, redundancy and equal pay each have distinct legal tests.
- Are you within the time limit? Most claims must be started within three months less one day, subject to ACAS Early Conciliation.
- Can you evidence it? Contemporaneous documents, policies and comparators carry far more weight than recollection alone.
If the answer to all three is yes, the next question is not whether you have "a case" — it is how strong that case is against comparable tribunal decisions.
What affects the strength of a claim?
Employment Tribunal outcomes are shaped by a consistent set of factors:
- Whether the employer followed a fair procedure — investigation, hearing, appeal.
- The quality and contemporaneity of documentary evidence.
- Length of service and disciplinary history.
- Consistency of treatment with comparators.
- Financial loss and mitigation efforts after dismissal.
- Whether protected characteristics or protected disclosures are engaged.
Small differences in any of these factors can move a claim from "likely to succeed" to "likely to fail". That is why headline success rates rarely predict an individual outcome — and why discrimination and whistleblowing claims in particular reward careful evidence work.
Why apparently similar claims produce different outcomes
Two employees dismissed in comparable circumstances can receive opposite tribunal decisions. Judges are bound by the facts of the case in front of them, and the difference usually lies in the paper trail: a well-documented investigation, a consistently applied policy, a credible comparator, a specific email at a specific time. Tribunal success is rarely random — but it is highly fact-sensitive.
Comparable published decisions — not national averages — are the most reliable evidence base for predicting how a tribunal is likely to view a specific set of facts.
Why comparable decisions beat headline success rates
Published Employment Tribunal success rates combine thousands of very different claim types, employers and evidence profiles. They describe the system as a whole — not any individual claim. CaseIntel's Claim Success Checker matches your circumstances against genuinely comparable published decisions so you can see how cases with similar facts have actually been decided.
Explore the underlying evidence base in our Employment Tribunal Statistics 2026 report, and see how outcomes unfold over time in the Employment Tribunal timeline guide.
Frequently asked questions
Common questions about assessing whether you have a strong Employment Tribunal claim.