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BAILII UK Case Law

السجل الرسمي الحكومة والقانون

Search UK case law on BAILII — court judgments with section extraction. Runs locally.

الشيفرة المصدرية الموقع التوثيق

ماذا يمكنك أن تفعل مع BAILII UK Case Law؟

  • "Search BAILII for cases about HMO licensing"
  • "Find recent whistleblowing employment tribunal cases"
  • "Get the summary of Chinn v Hoilund-Carlsen"
  • "What did the court hold in that case?"
  • "Show me the discussion section"

التثبيت

أضف هذا إلى إعدادات MCP في عميلك (Claude Desktop: claude_desktop_config.json، وCursor: ‏.cursor/mcp.json، ويستخدم VS Code وغيره الصيغة نفسها «mcpServers»).

PYPI package bailii-mcp
Claude Code 
claude mcp add bailii-uk-case-law -- uvx bailii-mcp==1.0.1
إعداد JSON (Claude Desktop وCursor وVS Code) 
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "bailii-uk-case-law": {
            "command": "uvx",
            "args": [
                "bailii-mcp==1.0.1"
            ]
        }
    }
}

التوثيق

مأخوذ من ملف README للمشروع على GitHub ويُحدَّث أسبوعيًا. تفتح الروابط على GitHub.

المحتويات
  1. BAILII MCP Server
  2. Install
  3. Configuration
  4. What You Can Ask
  5. Tools
  6. Why Local?
  7. Notes
  8. Licence
  9. Author

BAILII MCP Server

Search UK case law on BAILII. Retrieve judgments with automatic section extraction (summary, conclusions, discussion, background). Runs locally — BAILII blocks cloud IPs.

Install

No install needed — uvx runs it directly from PyPI:

uvx bailii-mcp
Using pip
pip install bailii-mcp
bailii-mcp

Requires Python 3.10+.

Configuration

Claude Desktop

Add to your claude_desktop_config.json:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "bailii": {
      "command": "uvx",
      "args": ["bailii-mcp"]
    }
  }
}
Claude Code
claude mcp add bailii -- uvx bailii-mcp
VS Code

Add to .vscode/settings.json or use the MCP panel:

{
  "mcp": {
    "servers": {
      "bailii": {
        "command": "uvx",
        "args": ["bailii-mcp"]
      }
    }
  }
}
Using pip instead of uvx

If you installed via pip install bailii-mcp, use "command": "bailii-mcp" and "args": [] instead.

From source
git clone https://github.com/paulieb89/bailii-mcp.git
cd bailii-mcp
pip install -e .

What You Can Ask

Once connected, just ask Claude naturally:

  • "Search BAILII for cases about HMO licensing"
  • "Find recent whistleblowing employment tribunal cases"
  • "Get the summary of Chinn v Hoilund-Carlsen"
  • "What did the court hold in that case?"
  • "Show me the discussion section"

Tools

ToolWhat it does
bailii_searchFull-text search across all BAILII courts. Returns titles, citations, and links.
bailii_get_judgmentRetrieve judgment text. Defaults to summary + conclusions (~5000 chars).
bailii_list_courtsList available UK courts (UKSC, EWCA, EWHC, UKUT, EAT, etc).
Section Extraction

Judgments are large (30-100KB). By default, only the summary and conclusions are returned. Ask for more if you need it:

  • Default: summary + conclusions (5000 chars)
  • Specific section: "show me the discussion" → pulls just that section
  • Full text: "get the complete judgment" → returns everything

Sections detected: summary, conclusions, held, discussion, background

Why Local?

BAILII blocks requests from cloud servers and datacenters. This server runs on your machine, so requests go through your residential IP.

For case law that doesn't need BAILII specifically, uk-legal-mcp provides case law via the National Archives API — hosted on Fly.io, no local setup needed.

This BAILII server is useful when you need:

  • Employment tribunal decisions (EAT coverage is stronger on BAILII)
  • Older cases not yet in the TNA database
  • Specific tribunals with better BAILII indexing

Notes

  • BAILII terms prohibit bulk downloading — use for targeted research only
  • Be reasonable with request rate
  • Section extraction depends on judgment formatting — not all judgments have clear section headers

Licence

Apache 2.0

Author

Paul Boucherat — building MCP servers for UK property, legal, and project controls.

الأسئلة الشائعة

ما هو BAILII UK Case Law؟

Search UK case law on BAILII — court judgments with section extraction. Runs locally.

كيف أثبّت BAILII UK Case Law؟

يعمل على جهازك. في Claude Code: claude mcp add bailii-uk-case-law -- uvx bailii-mcp==1.0.1. وفي العملاء الآخرين، الصق إعداد JSON من هذه الصفحة في إعدادات MCP الخاصة بهم.

هل يحتاج BAILII UK Case Law إلى مفتاح API؟

لا يذكر إدراجه في السجل أي مفتاح أو سر إلزامي. قد تتطلب بعض الميزات حسابًا لدى الخدمة التي يتصل بها.

هل BAILII UK Case Law مفتوح المصدر؟

شيفرته علنية على GitHub، لكن المستودع لا يعلن ترخيصًا قياسيًا.

من يصون BAILII UK Case Law؟

ينشره paulieb89. يدرجه AI.tn لكنه لا يصونه ولا يوصي به.

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