Increase in compensation limits

The "Vento" guidelines provide the bands within which compensation for injury to feelings and psychiatric injury should be awarded in discrimination claims, depending on severity. These have now been updated, for tribunal claims presented on or after 6 April 2024. They now are:

• a lower band of £1,200 to £11,700 (less serious cases);

• a middle band of £11,700 to £35,200 (cases that do not merit an award in the upper band); and

• an upper band of £35,200 to £58,700 (the most serious cases), with the most exceptional cases capable of exceeding £58,700.