Two capabilities are hard to get any other way. Point-in-time lookup answers what a section said on a specific date rather than what it says now, which is the question that matters when the conduct predates an amendment. And the paragraph-level regex over a judgment turns 'find where they discussed control' into one call over one judgment instead of reading it end to end. Everything returns with the publisher's URL and licence attached, which is what makes the output quotable.
A reader for UK and EU open law. It fetches from The National Archives' Find Case Law, legislation.gov.uk, EUR-Lex, HUDOC, the FCA, the ICO and HMRC, and returns the real text with its source URL and licence attached, so every answer can be checked back to the publisher.
- Full-text search across England and Wales courts and tribunals from 2001, scoped by court and date, and any judgment fetched whole by neutral citation or document URI
- A regular expression applied paragraph by paragraph to one judgment, which is how you find the paragraph that discusses a concept without rereading the judgment
- Judgments that cite a given neutral citation, listed with their own citations and titles
- A single section of UK primary or secondary legislation, with an as-of date that returns the text in force on that day rather than the current version
- The table of contents of an Act or Statutory Instrument as a flat list of parts, chapters and sections
- EU documents from the Publications Office by CELEX number — treaties, regulations, directives, decisions, CJEU judgments and AG opinions
- HUDOC searched by text and date range, or one record fetched by its item id
- Any FCA Handbook reference resolved into its official deep link, with an as-of date, and metadata plus a link for a named Final or Decision Notice
- ICO enforcement actions listed by type — monetary penalty, enforcement notice, reprimand, undertaking, prosecution, audit, decision notice — filtered by sector and date
- A section of an HMRC internal manual, or a manual's root navigation, through the GOV.UK Content API
- A citation formatted in OSCOLA (4th edition, UK or Ireland) or Bluebook (22nd edition), parsed from the text you supply
No key and no signup on any of the three paths: a community Streamable HTTP endpoint at https://openlawmcp.legalaispace.com/v1/mcp with a per-IP throttle and best-effort uptime, local stdio as npx -y @legalaispace/openlaw-mcp, or the HTTP transport self-hosted with node dist/http.js on PORT, default 3000. Responses are cached to SQLite under ~/.cache/openlaw-mcp, tunable with OPENLAW_CACHE_DIR; behind a proxy, TRUST_PROXY has to match the hop count for per-IP limits to key correctly, and OPENLAW_RPM_PER_IP defaults to 600. If you serve more than one end-user from one process, the Find Case Law licence means the shared cache has to be turned off or made per-tenant. Source is Apache-2.0; what it returns is information and research material, not legal advice.
One command — claude mcp add --transport http openlaw https://openlawmcp.legalaispace.com/v1/mcp