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Tuesday, July 08, 2025
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Injury to feelings awards in the employment tribunal
Discover answers to your most pressing questions about injury to feelings awards so you can navigate your employment claim effectively!
What is injury to feelings compensation?
Injury to feelings compensation is money awarded for the emotional impact of unlawful treatment, such as discrimination or harassment. It’s separate from financial loss.
How much compensation can I get for injury to feelings?
The amount depends on how serious the impact was. Most awards fall within set “Vento bands” ranging from low to high.
What are the Vento bands for injury to feelings in 2025?
Vento bands are updated yearly. For 2025, they range from £1,200 (lower band) to over £56,000 (upper band) for the most serious cases.
How are injury to feelings awards calculated by tribunals?
Tribunals consider how serious the treatment was, how it affected you, and any patterns of behaviour. Evidence helps.
Can I claim injury to feelings for unfair dismissal?
Not usually. Injury to feelings is awarded for unlawful discrimination, not for being unfairly dismissed on its own.
What evidence do I need to claim injury to feelings?
You don’t need a doctor’s note, but diary entries, messages, or witness statements help prove how you felt.
What’s the average injury to feelings compensation for harassment at work?
Every case is different, often lawyers fall into a trap of thinking that as it's a one off at, therefore its lower band of Vento...this is wrong.
Do I need a lawyer to claim injury to feelings compensation?
No — many people claim successfully without legal help. But you must be clear, organised, and back up your claim.
Can I use an injury to feelings calculator to estimate my award?
Online tools can give a rough idea, but tribunals decide based on facts, not averages or formulas.
How do I include injury to feelings in my tribunal claim?
You explain it in your claim form and schedule of loss. Keep it simple and focus on the emotional impact.
RELATED RESOURCES
Blog Posts on Injury to Feelings
Other resources on Injury to feelings
Here is a link to the decision in Vento v Chief Constable of West Yorkshire [2002] EWCA Civ .
Here is a link to the Presidential Guidance on injury to feelings awards which applies to all claims issues after 6th April 2025 .
Chronology of a claim
Disclaimer: Please note, none of the answers on this page or connected pages are legal advice, and whilst reasonable steps are taken to ensure its accuracy at the time of publication, the law changes regularly
🧭 Navigating your Claim
⏳ Chronology of a Claim
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Try to settle the dispute without starting a claim.
Not able to resolve your issue? Then set out your complaint by completing the ET1 and respond with an ET3
Once the claim has started get the roadmap for your case at a Case Management Hearing ("CMH").
The CMH may identify specific issues to resolve before a Final Hearing, like strike-out or employment status.
You will be ordered to exchange all relevant documents with the other side.
You will need to write a detailed account of your evidence before the Final Hearing and possibly any Preliminary Hearing, and send it to the other side.
This is when your case is decided by the tribunal.
If you win, this stage decides compensation or reinstatement
You may be able to challenge the outcome — but only on limited grounds.
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