What openlaw-mcp can fetch.

Full-text search of UK case law

Search The National Archives' Find Case Law (E&W courts and tribunals, 2001+). Filter by court, year, page.

https://caselaw.nationalarchives.gov.uk/atom.xml?query={query}&court={court}&from_date={YYYY-MM-DD}

{
  "query": "Article 8 ECHR",
  "court": "uksc",
  "fromYear": 2024
}

Returns neutral citations, judgment titles, dates and Find Case Law URLs with provenance.

Fetch a judgment as structured Akoma Ntoso

Resolves a neutral citation or TNA URI to the full judgment XML, parsed into meta, header and paragraphs.

https://caselaw.nationalarchives.gov.uk/{court}/{year}/{number}/data.xml

{
  "citation": "[2019] UKSC 41"
}

Full structured judgment: meta block, header text, paragraph list keyed by Akoma Ntoso eId.

Regex inside a judgment

Fetches a judgment, runs a JavaScript regex across paragraph text, and returns matching paragraphs with eId references.

https://caselaw.nationalarchives.gov.uk/{court}/{year}/{number}/data.xml

{
  "citation": "[2021] UKSC 5",
  "pattern": "\\bcontrol\\b"
}

List of matching paragraphs with snippet, full text, eId and paragraph number.

Forward citation lookup

Find judgments on Find Case Law that cite a given neutral citation. No treatment classification.

https://caselaw.nationalarchives.gov.uk/atom.xml?query="{citation}"

{
  "citation": "[1992] UKHL 3"
}

List of citing judgments with neutral citations and Find Case Law URLs.

Point-in-time statute lookup

Fetches a statute section from legislation.gov.uk, including version metadata, extent and commencement flags. Supports as_of date.

https://www.legislation.gov.uk/{type}/{year}/{number}/section/{section}/data.xml (or /.../{YYYY-MM-DD}/data.xml for as_of)

{
  "type": "ukpga",
  "year": 2010,
  "number": 23,
  "section": "1"
}

Normalised section document — title, text, version metadata, prospective/in-force flags.

Walk a statute's table of contents

Returns parts, chapters and sections for an Act or SI from legislation.gov.uk's CLML contents XML.

https://www.legislation.gov.uk/{type}/{year}/{number}/contents/data.xml

{
  "type": "ukpga",
  "year": 2023,
  "number": 54
}

Flat TOC entries with section number, title and URL.

Resolve FCA Handbook references

Parses an FCA reference (e.g. SYSC 4.1.1R) and emits the official handbook.fca.org.uk deep link. Local computation — no scraping.

Local computation only — emits https://www.handbook.fca.org.uk/handbook/{module}/{chapter}/{section}.html#{anchor}

{
  "reference": "SYSC 4.1.1R"
}

Deep link under handbook.fca.org.uk with parsed module, section and rule.

Build FCA Final/Decision Notice deep links

Computes the fca.org.uk deep link for a known notice slug. Body and listing intentionally disabled — FCA materials are link-only.

Local computation only — emits https://www.fca.org.uk/publication/{category}/{slug}

{
  "category": "final-notices",
  "slug": "barclays-bank-plc-2022"
}

Notice metadata and deterministic FCA URL.

Search ICO guidance and enforcement

Searches ICO guidance, monetary penalty notices and enforcement actions via the official /api/search endpoint.

POST https://ico.org.uk/api/search (mirrors https://ico.org.uk/action-weve-taken/enforcement/)

{
  "sector": "telecoms",
  "fromYear": 2024
}

Paged enforcement items with date, title and ICO URL.

Fetch HMRC manual sections

Pulls HMRC internal manuals (e.g. Business Income Manual, Employment Status Manual) via GOV.UK Content API.

https://www.gov.uk/api/content/hmrc-internal-manuals/{manual}[/{section}]

{
  "manual": "business-income-manual",
  "section": "BIM20205"
}

Manual navigation tree or section bodyHtml + bodyText with gov.uk URL.

Fetch EU documents by CELEX

Fetches EU primary or secondary legislation from EUR-Lex's Cellar repository by CELEX number, with XHTML and HTML fallback.

https://publications.europa.eu/resource/celex/{CELEX}

{
  "celex": "32016R0679"
}

Raw EUR-Lex body content with detected media type and provenance envelope.

Fetch ECHR judgments from HUDOC

Queries HUDOC for ECHR judgments (English or French Court-authored only). Suppresses out-of-policy records.

Search: https://hudoc.echr.coe.int/app/query/results — Body: https://hudoc.echr.coe.int/app/conversion/docx/html/body?id={itemid}

{
  "itemid": "001-208904"
}

Judgment metadata and body, or a suppression note if the record is out of scope.

Format citations in OSCOLA or Bluebook

Parses a free-form citation and emits OSCOLA (UK/Ireland) or Bluebook formatting. Optionally appends a Find Case Law URL.

Local computation only — no network call

{
  "input": "Donoghue v Stevenson [1932] AC 562",
  "style": "OSCOLA"
}

Cleanly formatted citation, with optional derived Find Case Law URL.