UK Employment Tribunal Decisions

Search and download employment tribunal decisions from the official GOV.UK database: case reference, parties, decision date and a link to the decision itself. Over 128,000 decisions from February 2017 onwards.

🔍 What does UK Employment Tribunal Decisions do?

It runs a search against the GOV.UK employment tribunal decisions database and returns every matching decision as a clean row of data, ready for a spreadsheet, a database or your own product.

• Over 128,000 decisions from England, Wales and Scotland
• Search by keyword, which covers company names, issues and outcomes
• Filter by jurisdiction, for example unfair dismissal or discrimination
• Filter by country and by date range
• Updated daily as new decisions are published

📊 What data can I extract from the tribunal database?

One row per decision:

Field	Description
01_caseReference	Official case reference, for example 3200399/2023
02_parties	Claimant and respondent as published
03_decidedDate	Date the decision was made (YYYY-MM-DD)
04_url	Link to the full decision on GOV.UK
05_title	Full listing title, which combines the parties and the case reference

Column names carry numeric prefixes so exports and previews keep the right order.

💡 Why scrape employment tribunal decisions?

Precedent research. Find comparable unfair dismissal and discrimination cases to support an argument, without paging through GOV.UK by hand.

HR risk and benchmarking. See which claim types are being brought against employers in your sector, and how often.

Union and advocacy casework. Track patterns by employer or by claim type to build evidence.

Due diligence and insurance. Profile an employer's tribunal history before a hire, a deal or a policy renewal.

🚀 How do I use UK Employment Tribunal Decisions?

1. Click Try for free.
2. Put a company name, issue or phrase into keywords, for example NHS.
3. Narrow it with jurisdiction, country and a dateFrom and dateTo range.
4. Set maxResults to cap the run, up to 1000.
5. Click Start, then download the results as JSON, CSV or Excel, or pull them from the API.

⬇️ Input

{
  "keywords": "NHS",
  "jurisdiction": "unfair-dismissal",
  "dateFrom": "2024",
  "maxResults": 100
}

Field	Type	Default	What it does
keywords	string		Search for keywords in the case title or description
jurisdiction	string	all	Restrict to one claim type, such as unfair-dismissal or race-discrimination
country	string	all	england-wales or scotland, leave blank to cover both
dateFrom	string		Earliest decision date, a year like 2024 or a full date like 21/11/2024
dateTo	string		Latest decision date, same formats as dateFrom
maxResults	integer	100	Maximum number of decisions to return, up to 1000

⬆️ Output

Table view

Results arrive as a Decisions table you can sort and filter in the Console, with the case reference, parties and decision date lined up for scanning.

JSON

A typical row:

{
  "02_parties": "Jane Smith",
  "01_caseReference": "6034098/2025",
  "03_decidedDate": "2026-03-23",
  "05_title": "Mr J Owen v Alstom Transport (UK) Ltd: 6034098/2025",
  "04_url": "https://www.gov.uk/employment-tribunal-decisions/mr-j-owen-v-alstom-transport-uk-ltd-6034098-slash-2025"
}

Download it from the run as JSON, CSV or Excel, or read it straight from the API.

Common jurisdictions

• Unfair Dismissal
• Disability Discrimination
• Race Discrimination
• Sex Discrimination
• Age Discrimination
• Harassment
• Equal Pay Act
• Breach of Contract
• Redundancy
• Unlawful Deduction from Wages
• Working Time Regulations
• Victimisation

Example searches

• NHS unfair dismissal with a date range covering the last 12 months
• Jurisdiction: Sex Discrimination, Country: Scotland
• constructive dismissal with dateFrom set to 2024
• Jurisdiction: Equal Pay Act, Keywords: gender pay gap

Data source

The official GOV.UK Employment Tribunal Decisions database, updated daily. It covers England, Wales and Scotland from February 2017 onwards. Data is Crown Copyright, licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.

💰 How much does it cost?

Right now this Actor rents at $25 a month, which covers as many runs and as many decisions as you need.

From 21 August 2026 it moves to pay per result at $0.015 per decision. Most people run this occasionally rather than continuously, so the change makes it markedly cheaper for them, and you only pay for what a run actually returns. Set maxResults to cap what a run can cost, up to 1000 per run.

Runs that return nothing cost nothing under the new pricing.

🔌 Integrations

Send results straight to Google Sheets, Slack, Airtable, Zapier, Make or your own webhook using Apify integrations. You can also trigger a run whenever something happens in another tool.

🔗 Using UK Employment Tribunal Decisions with the Apify API

curl -X POST "https://api.apify.com/v2/acts/spookyweb~uk-employment-tribunal-decisions/run-sync-get-dataset-items?token=YOUR_TOKEN" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"keywords": "NHS", "jurisdiction": "unfair-dismissal", "dateFrom": "2024", "maxResults": 100}'

Or with the Apify client:

import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client';

const client = new ApifyClient({ token: 'YOUR_TOKEN' });
const run = await client.actor('spookyweb/uk-employment-tribunal-decisions').call({
  keywords: 'NHS',
  jurisdiction: 'unfair-dismissal',
  dateFrom: '2024',
  maxResults: 100,
});
const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems();

Full detail is in the Apify API reference, and every run is also callable from the Python and JavaScript clients.

❓ FAQ

Does it cover Scotland as well as England and Wales?

Yes. The GOV.UK database covers England, Wales and Scotland, and so does this Actor. Leave country blank to search all three, or set it to england-wales or scotland to split them.

How current is the data?

GOV.UK publishes new decisions daily, and this Actor reads the live database, so a run returns what is published at that moment. There is a lag between a hearing and publication, which is set by the tribunal service rather than by this Actor.

Can I search by employer name?

Yes, put the employer into keywords. The search matches the case title, and the respondent's name is part of that title, so a search for Alstom returns cases where Alstom is the respondent. Combine it with jurisdiction to narrow to one claim type.

Why do some decisions have no full text?

This Actor returns the index record plus 04_url, which is the link to the decision on GOV.UK. What sits at that URL varies by case: some decisions are published with full written reasons, others as the judgment alone. That is a decision the tribunal makes at publication, not something the Actor filters out.

Can I monitor for new decisions?

Yes. Set a narrow keywords and jurisdiction, set dateFrom to cover only the recent window you care about, keep maxResults low, and schedule the run daily or weekly with Apify's scheduler.

How far back does it go?

February 2017, which is when the tribunal service started publishing decisions in this database. Anything before that was never published online in this form.

⚖️ Is it legal to scrape employment tribunal decisions?

Decisions are published by HM Courts and Tribunals Service on GOV.UK as a public record. The tribunal itself publishes the parties' names as part of open justice. This Actor reads only those public pages, and it never logs in.

Onward use of named individuals is your responsibility under GDPR. Data is Crown Copyright under the Open Government Licence v3.0, so commercial use is permitted with attribution. Apify's ethical scraping guide covers the wider picture.

👍 Your feedback

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