Employment tribunal statistics: Contract Dispute Benchmark
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.
By measure
| Breakdown | Median | Range | Sources |
|---|---|---|---|
| measureemployment tribunal open caseload, annual change | 55% | 55 to 55% | 1 |
| measureearly conciliation cases that did not progress to the employment tribunal | 66% | 66 to 66% | 1 |
| measureearly conciliation notifications made by workers | 96% | 96 to 96% | 1 |
Every figure, with its source
One row per published figure: the figure as the source's own page publishes it, the page, and the day it was read. A figure that is not on a page we read is not on this one.
| Source | Figure | Breakdown | Read |
|---|---|---|---|
| Acas early conciliation data: July to September 2025 | 96% | early conciliation notifications made by workers | 2026-09-12 |
| Acas early conciliation data: July to September 2025 | 66% | early conciliation cases that did not progress to the employment tribunal | 2026-09-12 |
| Tribunal Statistics Quarterly: January to March 2026 | 55% | employment tribunal open caseload, annual change | 2026-09-12 |
The sentence each figure was read from (3)
- Acas early conciliation data: July to September 2025, read 2026-09-12:
Around 96% of all early conciliation notifications came from workers in July to September 2025.
- Acas early conciliation data: July to September 2025, read 2026-09-12:
66% of cases did not progress to the employment tribunal.
- Tribunal Statistics Quarterly: January to March 2026, read 2026-09-12:
Open caseload also increased by 55% over the same period as receipts have exceeded disposals for the last few years.
Read in full, publishes no figure
7 named sources were read in full on the dates shown and print no usable figure. They are counted, never filled in.
- MoJ tribunals statistics collection, read 2026-10-24: read in full and no accepted figure on the page
- Tribunal Statistics Quarterly: October to December 2025, read 2026-09-12: every candidate on the page was refused
- Guide to Tribunal Statistics Quarterly, read 2026-09-12: every candidate on the page was refused
- Acas service statistics, read 2026-09-12: read in full and no accepted figure on the page
- Acas early conciliation and employment tribunal data, read 2026-09-12: read in full and no accepted figure on the page
- GOV.UK employment tribunals: what you can claim for, read 2026-09-12: read in full and no accepted figure on the page
- GOV.UK employment tribunals, read 2026-09-12: read in full and no accepted figure on the page
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
43 candidate sentences on these pages were refused by a reviewer; each refusal and its reason is recorded in the review ledger.
Sources (9)
- MoJ tribunals statistics collection(the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- Tribunal Statistics Quarterly: January to March 2026(the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- Tribunal Statistics Quarterly: October to December 2025(the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- Guide to Tribunal Statistics Quarterly(the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- Acas service statistics(the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- Acas early conciliation and employment tribunal data(the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- Acas early conciliation data: July to September 2025(the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- GOV.UK employment tribunals: what you can claim for(the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- GOV.UK employment tribunals(the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
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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.
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