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The numbers behind the story.

Reporting on workplace disputes? Get the figure, the trend and the context in minutes — from the full record of published UK employment tribunal decisions, with a methodology you can cite.

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Before you ask

What the data desk is — and isn't — for.

The data desk supports institutional accountability journalism — companies, sectors, judges, policy trends, the impact of representation, regional patterns. The questions we can answer fastest and most usefully are about how the system works and who's in it: corporate respondents, judicial decisions, sector-level trends.

It's not designed for investigating named individuals or surfacing personal details from cases. Where a story angle involves an individual, we may decline to provide information beyond what's in the published decision itself, depending on the public-interest balance. Read more in our principles statement.

What you can ask us

Four kinds of question we can answer today.

Whether you're writing about a settlement, a sector, a respondent or a policy change — here are the questions we can answer fast.

Context for an award

Is this settlement big or normal?

Drop a reported figure in — we'll tell you where it sits in the distribution for similar cases by sector, claim type and year.

£187k disability discrimination award in retail → 94th percentile for this claim type, 2025

Sector trend

Is this industry an outlier?

Claims volume, award distributions, time-to-hearing — by sector, with year-on-year movement and statistical significance.

Hospitality claims up 14% TTM · driven by unauthorised deductions and unfair dismissal

Respondent history

How often has this company been sued?

Tribunal history for any organisation that's appeared in a published decision — claim types, outcomes, awards, named judges, dates.

18 published decisions for [retailer], 24 months, 39% claimant-win rate, £187k total awards

Representation gap

How much does having a lawyer matter?

Outcomes compared by representation status — across claim types, sectors, and respondent size. The number that ought to be in every access-to-justice piece.

1 in 3 claimants at hearing had no representation · win rate differential 23 percentage points

The press kit

Everything you need to cite us properly.

Attribution, methodology, expert comment availability — the three things your editor wants documented.

Attribution

Figures from Yerty can be cited freely with attribution: Yerty Insights, published ET decisions. Hyperlink to yerty.co.uk/insights where possible.

Methodology one-pager

Coverage statement, extraction accuracy, known limitations — in a one-pager your editor can read in 90 seconds.

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Expert comment

Available for comment on tribunal trends, access-to-justice data, and the published-decisions pipeline.

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Quarterly statistics

Government tribunal data — with our analysis on top.

Every March, June, September and December, the Ministry of Justice publishes employment tribunal statistics. We publish an analysis the same day.

December 2025

Employment tribunal statistics Q3 2025

Our analysis of the Ministry of Justice quarterly release — claims volume, backlog, awards, and what moved this quarter.

Read the analysis →

On deadline?

Ask us the question.

Same-day response for journalist queries during business hours. Send your question, your figure, your respondent, your story angle — we'll get back with the data and the citation.

Past coverage

Where Yerty's data has appeared.

A small selection of where the data and analysis have been used.

Thomson Reuters InstituteScaling Justice: Easing the UK's employee rights crisis →

Elsewhere on yerty