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New Vento Bands Come Into Force For Injury to Feelings Claims

on Friday, 08 April 2022.

The Presidents of the Employment Tribunals in England and Wales and in Scotland have published new guidance on the award levels for compensation for injury to feelings.

Vento bands are named after the case in which the guidance was first set out (Vento v Chief Constable of West Yorkshire) and are used to assess compensation for injury to feelings and psychiatric injury in discrimination and whistleblowing claims.

For claims presented on or after 6 April 2022, the new Vento bands are as follows:

  • a lower band of £990 to £9,900 for less serious cases
  • a middle band of £9,900 to £29,600 for cases which do not merit an award in the upper band
  • an upper band of £29,600 to £49,300 for the most serious cases

In the most exceptional cases it will be possible for tribunals to award in excess of £49,300. It is for Tribunals to determine which band a case falls into, and where in the band it should sit. The guidance is not binding, but Tribunals must have regard to it and in practice it would be highly unusual if the Vento bands were not followed.


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