This year's 185 winners, picked from nearly 3,300 applicants, will receive an average award of just over $37,000.

"The average award per case might be $200,000," he said.

The company said the average individual award, including back pay and interest, would be about $23,000.

The average award will be $75,000, the lawyers and the archdiocese said.

The average award for each organization is approximately $300,000 per year.

The average award rose to $2.9 million from $2 million.

Most of these are of three years duration, the average award being $300,00.

The average award for unfair dismissal last year was £9,120.

The soldiers have won most of the 1,100 cases processed in the last few years, though, with an average award of about $30,000.

Of 120 cases that went to trial between 1980 and 1986, the average final award was about $208,000.