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How often are employment tribunal decisions reconsidered?
A reconsideration is recorded in 5,462 of 131,146 published employment tribunal cases — about 4.2%, or roughly 1 in 24. Most tribunal decisions are final. Reconsideration is the main route by which they are revisited, ahead of corrections and remittals after appeal.
| Route | Count |
|---|---|
| Reconsideration | 5,462 |
| Slip-rule correction | 1,327 |
| Remitted by the EAT | 518 |
Reconsideration is rare — about 1 in 24 cases
Across 131,146 published cases, 5,462 carry a reconsideration outcome (4.2%). As documents, that is 5,962 reconsideration judgments, plus 273 amended judgments issued afterwards. The overwhelming majority of decisions are never reconsidered.
How it compares to other ways a decision changes
Reconsideration is often confused with two distinct routes. A slip-rule correction (1,327 documents) fixes clerical slips. A remittal (518 documents) returns a case to the tribunal after an Employment Appeal Tribunal ruling. Reconsideration is the most common of the three, but all are uncommon against the size of the record.
What it means
Finality is the norm. Reconsideration exists for specific grounds, where it is in the interests of justice, not as a second attempt at the same arguments. A request being made is not the same as the outcome changing.
Methodology & coverage
Drawn corpus-wide from Yerty's document-identity layer across 131,146 cases (161,068 published documents), not from a sample. A case is counted where a reconsideration outcome is recorded. Reconsideration, correction and remittal rates are not published in the official Ministry of Justice tribunal statistics.
Frequently asked questions
How often are employment tribunal decisions reconsidered?
A reconsideration is recorded in about 4.2% of cases — 5,462 of 131,146 published cases, or roughly 1 in 24. Most tribunal decisions are never reconsidered.
What is a reconsideration?
A request for the tribunal to look again at its own judgment on specific grounds, where it is in the interests of justice. It is not a re-hearing and is distinct from an appeal to the Employment Appeal Tribunal.
How is reconsideration different from a correction or an appeal?
A slip-rule correction (1,327 documents) fixes clerical errors. A remittal (518 documents) sends a case back after an EAT appeal. Reconsideration is the tribunal revisiting its own decision and is the most common of the three.
Does a reconsideration change the outcome?
Sometimes. Following reconsiderations, 273 amended judgments were issued in the corpus. Many reconsideration applications are refused, so a request does not mean the result will change.
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Figures derived from Employment Tribunal decisions published by HM Courts & Tribunals Service on GOV.UK, licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Analysis © Yerty. Re-use is subject to our Data Use & Citation policy.
Yerty provides information, not legal advice. These figures describe the published tribunal record and are not a prediction for any individual case. For advice on your circumstances, consider speaking to a qualified employment solicitor.