UK Case Law MCP Server

UK Case Law (National Archives)

Find Case Law service by the National Archives. No authentication required.

Data Model

• Judgment — A court judgment or tribunal decision published via Find Case Law.
• Neutral Citation — Standard citation format, e.g. [2026] EWCA Crim 385.
• Document URI — Machine-readable identifier (e.g. ewca/crim/2026/385 or d-<uuid>).
• Court codes — uksc (Supreme Court), ewca/civ (Court of Appeal Civil), ewca/crim (Criminal), ewhc (High Court), ukut (Upper Tribunal), ukftt (First-tier Tribunal).

Key Fields (Atom Feed)

• entry/title — Case name
• entry/link[@rel='alternate']/@href — URL to the judgment
• entry/published — Date published by the court
• entry/updated — Last updated in Find Case Law
• entry/author/name — Court name
• tna:identifier[@type='ukncn']/@value — Neutral Citation Number
• tna:uri — Document URI

Key Fields (Judgment XML / LegalDocML)

• FRBRname/@value — Case name
• FRBRdate/@date — Judgment date
• uk:court — Court code
• uk:cite — Neutral citation
• uk:year — Year
• uk:number — Sequence number

Gotchas

• No JSON API: Search uses Atom XML feed; individual documents use LegalDocML XML.
• Rate limit: 1,000 requests per rolling 5-minute period per IP.
• Order values: -date (newest first), date (oldest first), -updated, -transformation.
• Court filtering: Use court parameter with codes like uksc, ewca/civ, ewhc/ch.
• Open Justice Licence: Redistribution and reuse are permitted with attribution; computational reuse needs a separate National Archives application.