UK Legal Research MCP Server

UK legal research sources for your AI assistant. uk-legal-mcp connects ChatGPT, Claude, VS Code, Cursor, and other MCP-aware clients to UK case law, legislation, Hansard, bills, votes, committees, OSCOLA citation parsing, and HMRC guidance. It returns primary source text and citation metadata so your agent can build evidence packs you can check and footnote.

People connecting this server to Claude, Cursor, VS Code, or another MCP client. The project is written in Python.

VERIFIED ACTIVE

LAST COMMIT 2026-07-16 · ★ 13 · #441 OF 848 MAINTAINED OTHER · VERIFIED 2026-08-25

MIT · Python servers · how we verify → /methodology

01 · Install UK Legal Research

before you install - you'll need

VIRTUAL_ENV

Environment variables documented in the project's README - it lists which are required and which have defaults.

Claude Code

claude mcp add paulieb89-uk-legal-mcp --transport http https://uk-legal-mcp.fly.dev/mcp

Claude Desktop / Cursor / VS Code - add to config

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "paulieb89-uk-legal-mcp": {
      "url": "https://uk-legal-mcp.fly.dev/mcp"
    }
  }
}

Same JSON for Cursor. For VS Code, rename the top-level key from `mcpServers` to `servers`.

Using another client? Same JSON, different key

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Full setup guides: every client.

02 · Evidence

https://uk-legal-mcp.fly.dev/mcp

transport: streamable-http

endpoint alive - responded to MCP initialize · probed 2026-08-25

Security posture

What to check before giving this server access to your agent - from the registry, GitHub, and our own probes. We don't score safety; we show what's verifiable.

runs as local process (stdio) - runs on your machine with your user's permissions · remote - your agent's requests go to uk-legal-mcp.fly.dev

endpoint auth accepted our unauthenticated MCP initialize - no credentials needed to connect

license MIT - declared in the repository

pypi package uk-legal-mcp - check the name against the project README before installing (PyPI has no namespace ownership)

registry namespace io.github.paulieb89 is GitHub-verified and matches the repo owner

03 · What UK Legal Research can do

Prose above is summarized from the project's README and registry record - no invented capabilities.

Latest releases

v0.6.0 · 2026-06-15

What's new · Added · citations_format_oscola tool - converts a resolved citation into a correctly-formatted OSCOLA 4th edition string (neutral, law report, legislation section, SI). Refuses on confidence 0.0 or…

v0.5.1 · 2026-05-30

First public release since v0.4.4. It bundles the 0.5.0 production-hardening pass (which shipped to the hosted server but was never tagged or published to PyPI) plus the 0.5.1 patch. If you install via uvx uk-legal-mcp…

v0.4.4 · 2026-05-16

What's new · Client tracking (#15) · Logs clientInfo (name, version, capabilities) on every MCP initialize handshake · Emits uk_legal_client_connections_total Prometheus counter with client_name, client_version…

04 · Who maintains UK Legal Research

UK Legal Research is maintained by paulieb89. We track 5 MCP servers from paulieb89 - 5 actively maintained, 45 combined GitHub stars, oldest repo from Mar 2026. Full record: all servers from paulieb89.

05 · Facts

repository: github.com/paulieb89/uk-legal-mcp
website: https://bouch.dev/products/legal-research
category: other - ranked #441 of 848 actively-maintained other servers as of 2026-08-25.
release cadence: 2 releases in the last 90 days (latest 2026-06-15)
registry: io.github.paulieb89/uk-legal-mcp (active, first published 2026-04-01 · 2 versions)
packages: pypi:uk-legal-mcp

06 · UK Legal Research FAQ

What is UK Legal Research?

Is UK Legal Research still maintained?

Yes - as of 2026-08-25, its last commit was 2026-07-16 and it shipped 2 releases in the last 90 days. We re-verify nightly.

How do I install UK Legal Research?

Run `uvx uk-legal-mcp`. The README documents one environment variable (VIRTUAL_ENV) to set first. You can also paste the ready-made client config above.

Does UK Legal Research require authentication?

No - the endpoint accepted our unauthenticated MCP initialize when probed on 2026-08-25; you can connect without credentials.

07 · Alternatives to UK Legal Research

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