Employment solicitor cost: Rights Enforcement Price Index
The Rights Enforcement Price Index carries 21 published figures read from 18 sources' own pages; the 15 published figures given without a breakdown run from 750 to 30,000 GBP, read 12 October 2026.
- 141 to 5,001
- 45,001 to 10,001
- 210,001 to 15,001
- 15,001 to 20,000
- 20,000 to 25,000
- 125,000 to 30,000
Bands
| Bucket | Value |
|---|---|
| 1 to 5,001 | 14 figures |
| 5,001 to 10,001 | 4 figures |
| 10,001 to 15,001 | 2 figures |
| 15,001 to 20,000 | 0 figures |
| 20,000 to 25,000 | 0 figures |
| 25,000 to 30,000 | 1 figure |
21 of the 44 named sources read in full publish a figure; 23 publish none, read 12 October 2026.
By route and stage and region
| Breakdown | Median | Range | Sources |
|---|---|---|---|
| routeno-win-no-fee | 25% | 15 to 35% | 5 |
| routeunion | 33.16GBP | 17.07 to 49.25GBP | 2 |
| stagehearing-day | 1,300GBP | 1,000 to 1,600GBP | 2 |
| stageinitial advice | 125GBP | 125 to 125GBP | 1 |
| regionNorthern Ireland | 1.22GBP | 1.22 to 1.22GBP | 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.
The sentence each figure was read from (26)
- Arnold & Porter employment tribunal fees, read 2026-10-12:
As an approximate guide to our fees for bringing and defending unfair and wrongful dismissal claims in the Employment Tribunal, please see below: Simple case: £30,000-45,000 plus VAT.
- Nelsons unfair dismissal claim costs breakdown, read 2026-10-12:
As a general guide, our estimated fees for running an unfair dismissal claim from start to finish are typically in the region of £12,500 to £26,500 plus VAT.
- Gorvins Solicitors employment tribunal pricing (claimant), read 2026-10-12:
Our total fees for a typical one day unfair dismissal hearing, proceeding as we have outlined above, are therefore likely to range from £12,435 -£21,525 plus VAT at 20%, with average costs falling within the middle of this range.
- Farleys employment tribunal representation cost, read 2026-10-12:
Unfair dismissal claim – average £11,400 (£9,500+ £1,900 VAT), plus disbursements
- Vanderpump & Sykes tribunal pricing for employees, read 2026-10-12:
Fees – typically between £ 7,000 to £ 13,000 plus VAT (£ 8,400 to £ 15,600 inclusive of VAT) depending on the complexity of the matter.
- mfg Solicitors tribunal pricing for employees, read 2026-10-12:
£7,000 - £10,000
- Landau Law costs, read 2026-10-12:
Those fees are on average between £1,250- £1,850 plus VAT to prepare and issue the proceedings at the tribunal, and between £6,000- £15,000 plus VAT to take it right up to the tribunal hearing.
- Bailey & Cogger employment tribunal pricing for employees, read 2026-10-12:
Our hourly rates range from £295 – £450 (+20% VAT) depending on your solicitor’s experience, the complexity of your case and the individual circumstances. Simple Case: £5,000 - £8,000
- Martin Searle tribunal legal costs for employees, read 2026-10-12:
Our Firm’s Fees £5,000-£8,000 (excluding VAT)
- Lime Solicitors funding your employment claim, read 2026-10-12:
Should you choose to instruct us based on our hourly rates, then the pricing for bringing claims for unfair or wrongful dismissal may cost in the following region: Simple case: £5,000-£10,000 (excluding VAT, charged at 20%)
- E1 Solicitors employment fees, read 2026-10-12:
Our pricing for bringing and defending claims for unfair or wrongful dismissal Simple case: £3,000.00 – £4,500.00 (excluding VAT)
- Slater + Gordon unfair dismissal fees, read 2026-10-12:
Start from £2,400 with average case costs of £3,600-£8,400
- Phillips Law unfair and wrongful dismissal fees (employee), read 2026-10-12:
We would expect our costs for a wrongful dismissal claim to be between £2,000 and £3,000 plus VAT (£2400 – £ 3,600 Inc.
- mfg Solicitors tribunal pricing for employees, read 2026-10-12:
£1,600
- Atkins Hope employment tribunal pricing for employees, read 2026-10-12:
£1000 to £1500
- Atkins Hope employment tribunal pricing for employees, read 2026-10-12:
£900 to £3500
- Backhouse Solicitors fees for tribunal claims, read 2026-10-12:
Typical Fees: £750+VAT (£900) to £20,000+VAT (£24,000)
- Vanderpump & Sykes tribunal pricing for employees, read 2026-10-12:
£125.00
- BMA subscription costs, read 2026-10-12:
Standard membership £49.25 per month £37.00 per month n/a n/a
- Tribunal Claim Solicitors no win no fee, read 2026-10-12:
We send you a Damages-Based Agreement with clear terms: 35% fee if we win, nothing if we don’t.
- Atkins Hope employment tribunal pricing for employees, read 2026-10-12:
If we decide to offer you a No Win No Fee arrangement after meeting you and reading the papers in support of your case then we will charge the following if you win or settle your case and receive financial compensation from your former employer/employer. 25% to 35% of the compensation you receive plus vat.
- Landau Law costs, read 2026-10-12:
This means if we successfully negotiate a settlement for you, or win your case at tribunal, the fees will typically be 25% (plus VAT on that sum of 20%) of any sum we recover for you.
- Ellis Jones: funding a dispute with your employer, read 2026-10-12:
A DBA is like a ‘no win no fee’ agreement where you will not pay any legal costs if you lose (except for disbursements such as barrister’s costs) and if you win, we will take a percentage of your compensation. Before a claim is issued, this is 25% and this increases to 35% after a claim has been issued.
- Royal College of Nursing membership, read 2026-10-12:
£17.07
- Redmans no win no fee employment solicitors, read 2026-10-12:
As detailed above, if you’re successful with your claim, we would be paid an agreed percentage of any award or settlement, generally between 15% and 35%.
- UNISON membership fees, read 2026-10-12:
Northern Ireland membership rates do not have contributions towards political funds and start from £1.22 a month.
Read in full, publishes no figure
23 named sources were read in full on the dates shown and print no usable figure. They are counted, never filled in.
- McCabe and Co: paying for legal advice, read 2026-09-12: every candidate on the page was refused
- Trethowans employment tribunal pricing, read 2026-10-12: every candidate on the page was refused
- Blake Turner employment tribunal pricing, read 2026-09-12: every candidate on the page was refused
- Actons Solicitors employment tribunal prices, read 2026-10-12: every candidate on the page was refused
- Kleyman & Co employment tribunal costs, read 2026-09-12: every candidate on the page was refused
- Kuits Solicitors employment tribunal claims fees, read 2026-09-12: read in full and no accepted figure on the page
- Martin Searle SRA price transparency, read 2026-10-12: every candidate on the page was refused
- Slater + Gordon funding your employment legal fees, read 2026-10-12: every candidate on the page was refused
- Duncan Lewis no win no fee employment solicitors, read 2026-10-12: read in full and no accepted figure on the page
- Boys & Maughan employment tribunal claim costs, read 2026-10-12: every candidate on the page was refused
- Edward Connor transparent tribunal pricing, read 2026-09-12: every candidate on the page was refused
- LincsLaw settlement agreement fees, read 2026-10-12: every candidate on the page was refused
- QLAW settlement agreement solicitor fees, read 2026-10-12: every candidate on the page was refused
- Hibberts settlement agreement legal fees, read 2026-10-24: every candidate on the page was refused
- Just Employment settlement agreement advice cost, read 2026-09-26: every candidate on the page was refused
- Thompsons settlement agreement solicitor fees guide, read 2026-10-24: read in full and no accepted figure on the page
- SettlementAgreements.com settlement agreement costs, read 2026-09-12: read in full and no accepted figure on the page
- Menzies Law: employer contributions to settlement agreement costs, read 2026-09-12: every candidate on the page was refused
- Rayner Jones costs and fees, read 2026-09-12: every candidate on the page was refused
- Which? Legal employment service, read 2026-10-12: every candidate on the page was refused
- National Education Union subscription rates, read 2026-10-12: every candidate on the page was refused
- Markel legal expenses insurance, read 2026-10-12: every candidate on the page was refused
- Consilia Legal: legal expenses insurance and funding, read 2026-10-12: every candidate on the page was refused
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).
21 of the 44 named sources that could be read published a usable figure; 23 published none and are recorded as not published, never filled in; 2 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 GBP (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 21 figures, never sentences; 323 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 median, minimum and maximum published price to take one employment claim through each stage (initial advice, early conciliation, ET1, witness statements, hearing day) across every firm that publishes under the SRA transparency rules, beside the no-win-no-fee percentage each firm states and the annual cost of the two alternatives a worker actually has - a union subscription and a legal expenses policy - so the site can answer 'what will this cost me' in the same units the buyer thinks in (pounds per claim, percent of award, pounds per month)
323 candidate sentences on these pages were refused by a reviewer; each refusal and its reason is recorded in the review ledger.
Sources (46)
- Gorvins Solicitors employment tribunal pricing (claimant)(the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- McCabe and Co: paying for legal advice(the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- Trethowans employment tribunal pricing(the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- Atkins Hope employment tribunal pricing for employees(the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- mfg Solicitors tribunal pricing for employees(the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- Bailey & Cogger employment tribunal pricing for employees(the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- Vanderpump & Sykes tribunal pricing for employees(the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- Blake Turner employment tribunal pricing(the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- Actons Solicitors employment tribunal prices(the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- Backhouse Solicitors fees for tribunal claims(the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- Kleyman & Co employment tribunal costs(the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- E1 Solicitors employment fees(the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- Kuits Solicitors employment tribunal claims fees(the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- Martin Searle tribunal legal costs for employees(the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- Martin Searle SRA price transparency(the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- Redmans no win no fee employment solicitors(the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- Landau Law costs(the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- Slater + Gordon unfair dismissal fees(the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- Slater + Gordon funding your employment legal fees(the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- Phillips Law unfair and wrongful dismissal fees (employee)(the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- Nelsons unfair dismissal claim costs breakdown(the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- Farleys employment tribunal representation cost(the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- Tribunal Claim Solicitors no win no fee(the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- Duncan Lewis no win no fee employment solicitors(the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- Boys & Maughan employment tribunal claim costs(the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- Edward Connor transparent tribunal pricing(the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- LincsLaw settlement agreement fees(the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- QLAW settlement agreement solicitor fees(the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- Hibberts settlement agreement legal fees(the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- Just Employment settlement agreement advice cost(the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- Thompsons settlement agreement solicitor fees guide(the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- SettlementAgreements.com settlement agreement costs(the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- Menzies Law: employer contributions to settlement agreement costs(the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- Rayner Jones costs and fees(the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- Which? Legal employment service(the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- UNISON membership fees(the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- National Education Union subscription rates(the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- BMA subscription costs(the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- Royal College of Nursing membership(the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- Markel legal expenses insurance(the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- Arnold & Porter employment tribunal fees(the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- Lime Solicitors funding your employment claim(the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- Consilia Legal: legal expenses insurance and funding(the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- Ellis Jones: funding a dispute with your employer(the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- Unite the Union contribution rates(the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- tuc.org.uk(the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
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The Rights Enforcement Price Index carries 21 published figures read from 18 sources' own pages; the 15 published figures given without a breakdown run from 750 to 30,000 GBP, read 12 October 2026.
21 of the 44 named sources read in full publish a figure; 23 publish none, read 12 October 2026.
Rights Enforcement Price Index, route no-win-no-fee: median 25 percent across 5 sources, read 12 October 2026.
Rights Enforcement Price Index, route union: median 33.16 GBP across 2 sources, read 12 October 2026.
Rights Enforcement Price Index, stage hearing-day: median 1,300 GBP across 2 sources, read 12 October 2026.
Rights Enforcement Price Index, stage initial advice: median 125 GBP across 1 source, read 12 October 2026.
Rights Enforcement Price Index, region Northern Ireland: median 1.22 GBP across 1 source, read 12 October 2026.
Cite as: "employmentrightschecker.co.uk Rights Enforcement Price Index", updated 2026-11-01, https://employmentrightschecker.co.uk/datasets/rights-enforcement-price-index/.
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Questions this data answers
What does it cost to enforce an employment right - a solicitor stage by stage, a no-win-no-fee percentage, a union subscription or a legal expenses policy?
The Rights Enforcement Price Index carries 21 published figures read from 18 sources' own pages; the 15 published figures given without a breakdown run from 750 to 30,000 GBP, read 12 October 2026.
Where do the figures in the Rights Enforcement Price Index come from?
Every figure is quoted from its source's own page and dated (last read 12 Oct 2026). 44 named sources were read and 21 publish a figure; the 23 that publish none are recorded as not published, never estimated.