{ "name": "employmentcontractgenerator.co.uk Contract Dispute Benchmark", "title": "Contract Dispute Benchmark", "url": "https://employmentcontractgenerator.co.uk/datasets/contract-dispute-benchmark/", "csv": "https://employmentcontractgenerator.co.uk/datasets/contract-dispute-benchmark.csv", "markdown": "https://employmentcontractgenerator.co.uk/datasets/contract-dispute-benchmark/index.md", "computed_at": "2026-10-25", "license": "https://employmentcontractgenerator.co.uk/terms", "headline": "The Contract Dispute Benchmark carries 3 published figures read from 2 sources' own pages, from 55 to 96 percent, read 12 September 2026.", "quotes": [ "The Contract Dispute Benchmark carries 3 published figures read from 2 sources' own pages, from 55 to 96 percent, read 12 September 2026.", "2 of the 9 named sources read in full publish a figure; 7 publish none, read 12 September 2026.", "Contract Dispute Benchmark, measure employment tribunal open caseload, annual change: median 55 percent across 1 source, read 12 September 2026.", "Contract Dispute Benchmark, measure early conciliation cases that did not progress to the employment tribunal: median 66 percent across 1 source, read 12 September 2026.", "Contract Dispute Benchmark, measure early conciliation notifications made by workers: median 96 percent across 1 source, read 12 September 2026." ], "citation": "\"employmentcontractgenerator.co.uk Contract Dispute Benchmark\", updated 2026-10-25, https://employmentcontractgenerator.co.uk/datasets/contract-dispute-benchmark/.", "changed_since": null, "national": { "unit": "%", "n": 3, "median": 66, "min": 55, "max": 96, "p25": 55, "p75": 96, "mean": 72.3333, "units": { "%": 3 }, "published_sources": 2, "named_sources": 9, "read_sources": 9, "not_published": 7, "published_share": 0.222 }, "by_axis": { "measure": { "employment tribunal open caseload, annual change": { "%": { "n": 1, "median": 55, "min": 55, "max": 55, "p25": 55, "p75": 55, "mean": 55 } }, "early conciliation 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September 2025", "url": "https://www.acas.org.uk/about-us/service-statistics/early-conciliation/early-conciliation-and-employment-tribunal-cases-data-2025-to-2026/july-september-2025", "figure": "66%", "value": 66, "unit": "%", "vat": null, "axis": { "measure": "early conciliation cases that did not progress to the employment tribunal" }, "retrieved_at": "2026-09-12", "quote": "66% of cases did not progress to the employment tribunal.", "source_class": "primary-government", "text_sha256": "6eecf41bd40cab8f436c82149ae2ffc853edff96921333a986e53abee5adb930" }, { "source": "Acas early conciliation data: July to September 2025", "url": "https://www.acas.org.uk/about-us/service-statistics/early-conciliation/early-conciliation-and-employment-tribunal-cases-data-2025-to-2026/july-september-2025", "figure": "96%", "value": 96, "unit": "%", "vat": null, "axis": { "measure": "early conciliation notifications made by workers" }, "retrieved_at": "2026-09-12", "quote": "Around 96% of all early conciliation notifications came from workers in July to September 2025.", "source_class": "primary-government", "text_sha256": "6eecf41bd40cab8f436c82149ae2ffc853edff96921333a986e53abee5adb930" } ], "not_published": [ { "source": "MoJ tribunals statistics collection", "url": "https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/tribunals-statistics", "retrieved_at": "2026-10-24", "reason": "read in full and no accepted figure on the page" }, { "source": "Tribunal Statistics Quarterly: October to December 2025", "url": "https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/tribunals-statistics-quarterly-october-to-december-2025/tribunal-statistics-quarterly-october-to-december-2025--2", "retrieved_at": "2026-09-12", "reason": "every candidate on the page was refused" }, { "source": "Guide to Tribunal Statistics Quarterly", "url": "https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/tribunals-statistics-quarterly-october-to-december-2025/guide-to-tribunal-statistics-quarterly", "retrieved_at": "2026-09-12", "reason": "every candidate on the page was refused" }, { "source": "Acas service statistics", "url": "https://www.acas.org.uk/about-us/service-statistics", "retrieved_at": "2026-09-12", "reason": "read in full and no accepted figure on the page" }, { "source": "Acas early conciliation and employment tribunal data", "url": "https://www.acas.org.uk/about-us/service-statistics/early-conciliation", "retrieved_at": "2026-09-12", "reason": "read in full and no accepted figure on the page" }, { "source": "GOV.UK employment tribunals: what you can claim for", "url": "https://www.gov.uk/employment-tribunals/what-you-can-claim-for", "retrieved_at": "2026-09-12", "reason": "read in full and no accepted figure on the page" }, { "source": "GOV.UK employment tribunals", "url": "https://www.gov.uk/employment-tribunals", "retrieved_at": "2026-09-12", "reason": "read in full and no accepted figure on the page" } ], "sources": [ { "url": "https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/tribunals-statistics", "label": "MoJ tribunals statistics collection", "license": "the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment" }, { "url": "https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/tribunals-statistics-quarterly-january-to-march-2026/tribunal-statistics-quarterly-january-to-march-2026", "label": "Tribunal Statistics Quarterly: January to March 2026", "license": "the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment" }, { "url": "https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/tribunals-statistics-quarterly-october-to-december-2025/tribunal-statistics-quarterly-october-to-december-2025--2", "label": "Tribunal Statistics Quarterly: October to December 2025", "license": "the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment" }, { "url": "https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/tribunals-statistics-quarterly-october-to-december-2025/guide-to-tribunal-statistics-quarterly", "label": "Guide to Tribunal Statistics Quarterly", "license": "the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment" }, { "url": "https://www.acas.org.uk/about-us/service-statistics", "label": "Acas service statistics", "license": "the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment" }, { "url": "https://www.acas.org.uk/about-us/service-statistics/early-conciliation", "label": "Acas early conciliation and employment tribunal data", "license": "the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment" }, { "url": "https://www.acas.org.uk/about-us/service-statistics/early-conciliation/early-conciliation-and-employment-tribunal-cases-data-2025-to-2026/july-september-2025", "label": "Acas early conciliation data: July to September 2025", "license": "the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment" }, { "url": "https://www.gov.uk/employment-tribunals/what-you-can-claim-for", "label": "GOV.UK employment tribunals: what you can claim for", "license": "the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment" }, { "url": "https://www.gov.uk/employment-tribunals", "label": "GOV.UK employment tribunals", "license": "the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment" } ], "methodology": "Every row is a verbatim sentence read from the named source's own page through our fetch service on the date shown, hash-pinned to the stored read (the sha of the page's visible text; the raw page is mirrored to R2). 2 of the 9 named sources that could be read published a usable figure; 7 published none and are recorded as not published, never filled in; 0 could not be read (blocked, dead or unreachable) and count nowhere. The headline figures (median, minimum, maximum, quartiles) are over ONE figure per source for each breakdown it prices, in % (a source's median where its page yielded several accepted sentences for one breakdown), so a page that gives figures for several breakdowns gives one for each and N counts 3 figures, never sentences; 43 candidate sentence(s) were refused by a reviewer with the reason recorded. The fuller derivation this dataset is chartered to grow into (not yet what the figures above are; they are each source's own published figure as read): the quarterly series of employment tribunal receipts and Acas early-conciliation notifications joined to the award figures per jurisdiction, expressed as the derivation nobody publishes: the cost of a claim against the cost of the contract that would have prevented it, per claim type, using the price index's median as the denominator", "embed": "

55 to 96 percent

3 published figures, Contract Dispute Benchmark, across 2 sources, read 12 September 2026

Source: employmentcontractgenerator.co.uk Contract Dispute Benchmark
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