# UK Legal Research Muse connector

From musedirectory.ai, the independent directory of Meta Muse connectors. Not affiliated with Meta.

## UK Legal Research

Search UK case law, legislation, Hansard debates, bills, votes, committees, and tax guidance with citation support.

- Record: https://musedirectory.ai/connector/uk-legal-research
- Category: Legal
- Developer: Paul Iebister (https://bouch.dev/products/uk-legal-mcp)
- Muse status: Extra setup. Not in Muse's Connectors list yet. Muse can still use it: its page gives you a request to paste into Muse.
- Health: Working, 1202ms, checked 2026-09-28T09:01:32Z
- Endpoint: https://uk-legal-mcp.fly.dev/mcp
- Auth: No account needed; Pricing: unknown
- Screening: Screened, no issues found (2026-09-24T04:05:55Z)
- Source: Found in the official MCP Registry (io.github.paulieb89/uk-legal-mcp) https://registry.modelcontextprotocol.io/v0/servers?search=io.github.paulieb89%2Fuk-legal-mcp

Access UK court judgments from TNA, Acts and Statutory Instruments, parliamentary Hansard debates and divisions, bills and their status, select committee evidence, HMRC VAT guidance, and OSCOLA citation parsing and formatting for legal research and document drafting.

Example request: "Find recent Court of Appeal decisions on negligence and duty of care, then retrieve the full text of a specific judgment and check what cases it cites."

How to connect: Not in Muse's Connectors list yet, but Muse can still use it. Paste this into Muse: "Use UK Legal Research to help me. It is a free service with an MCP server at https://uk-legal-mcp.fly.dev/mcp. It does not need an API key. Ask me before you share anything with it." Muse asks before it shares anything with the app's site. Meta does not review apps used this way, so only use ones you trust. We tested this in the Muse app on September 24, 2026: Muse used an app's link directly this way and returned a live answer.

Tools:
- judgment_get_header: USE THIS TOOL WHEN you have a judgment slug and need metadata (parties, judges, neutral citation, court, dates). Call case_law_search FIRST to get the slug. AFTER calling, use judgment_get_index to discover paragraphs, then judgment_get_paragraph to read specific ones. Authoritat
- judgment_get_index: USE THIS TOOL WHEN you have a judgment slug and want the paragraph navigation index (eId + preview line for every paragraph). Call case_law_search FIRST to get the slug. AFTER calling, pass an eId from the returned list into judgment_get_paragraph to read that paragraph's full te
- judgment_get_paragraph: USE THIS TOOL WHEN you have a judgment slug + LegalDocML eId and want that paragraph's full text. Call judgment_get_index FIRST to discover available eIds (or use case_law_grep_judgment to locate paragraphs by content). Returns the paragraph XML content (400–1,700 tokens typical)
- case_law_search: USE THIS TOOL WHEN searching UK case law by party names, court, judge, date, or free-text query. Returns paginated judgment summaries: neutral citation, court, dates, slug, stable TNA URI. AFTER calling: pass slug into judgment_get_header / judgment_get_index / judgment_get_parag
- case_law_grep_judgment: USE THIS TOOL WHEN you have a judgment slug and want to find paragraphs whose text matches a pattern. Returns a list of `{eId, snippet, match}` hits — small per-paragraph snippets centred on the match. AFTER calling, read full paragraphs via judgment_get_paragraph(slug, eId) or t
- legislation_search: USE THIS TOOL WHEN searching UK Acts and Statutory Instruments by title, phrase, or full-text. Returns ranked results: title, type, year, number, legislation.gov.uk URL, and next_steps hints (toc URI, section template). AFTER calling, chain to legislation_get_toc then legislation
- legislation_get_section: USE THIS TOOL WHEN you have a known Act / SI and want the parsed text of a specific section, regulation, or article, with extent and in-force metadata. Returns the provision's own text and its own heading — never a neighbouring or enclosing Part/Chapter's content. Also returns te
- legislation_get_toc: USE THIS TOOL WHEN you have a known Act / SI and want the structural table of contents (parts, chapters, individual sections/regulations/articles). Returns structural elements with XML id and title, in document order, e.g. 'section-47: Definitions' for an Act or 'regulation-4: Ma
- parliament_search_hansard: USE THIS TOOL WHEN searching Hansard by topic, bill title, or text phrase. Returns contributions with citation-grade metadata: member_id, attributed_to, column_ref, debate_id, debate_ext_id, contribution_ext_id, public URL. AFTER calling, drill into full content via read_resource
- parliament_policy_position_summary: USE THIS TOOL WHEN you want debate-level corpus signals on a topic — by_house, by_year, by_section breakdowns — without reading every contribution. Aggregates Hansard debate-level signals on a topic. Pure counts — no LLM, no editorial labels. Sweeps /search/Debates.json with pagi
- parliament_find_member: USE THIS TOOL WHEN you have a member's name and need their integer member_id. Returns all members matching the name query, each with the integer `id`, party, constituency, house, and current-sitting status. Disambiguates common-name matches (e.g. "Lord Smith" returns multiple pee
- parliament_member_debates: USE THIS TOOL WHEN you have a member_id and want contributions where THAT member used a specific topic phrase verbatim (text-body search). CALL parliament_find_member(name) FIRST to obtain the integer member_id. This is a name-based text-body search — it matches contributions who
- parliament_member_interests: USE THIS TOOL WHEN you have a member_id and need their registered financial interests (donations, directorships, land, gifts). CALL parliament_find_member(name) FIRST to obtain the integer member_id. Returns ONE PAGE of interests (default 20, caller controls via limit). For proli
- parliament_search_petitions: USE THIS TOOL WHEN searching UK Parliament petitions by keyword or topic. Returns petition title, state, signature count, and dates for government response or parliamentary debate if applicable. Filter by state (open, closed, debated, etc.) to narrow to live or historical petitio
- parliament_get_debate_divisions: USE THIS TOOL WHEN you have a debate_ext_id and want the divisions (formal votes) held within it. Most debates contain no divisions — Business of the House sittings, statements, urgent questions, debates without a vote. A populated list typically appears around bill stages, motio
- parliament_get_debate_contributions: USE THIS TOOL WHEN you have a debate_ext_id and want verbatim contributions, optionally filtered to one member. Canonical path for "everything a member said in this debate" regardless of vocabulary — text-search tools (parliament_member_debates, parliament_search_hansard) filter 
- parliament_lookup_by_column: USE THIS TOOL WHEN you have an OSCOLA-style Hansard citation (column + volume + house) and need the debate. Example input: 'HL Deb 14 Oct 2025, vol 849, col 200'. AFTER calling, read the contribution at the cited column via read_resource(uri="hansard://debate/{debate_ext_id}/head
- bills_search_bills: USE THIS TOOL WHEN searching UK parliamentary bills by keyword, session, house, or legislative stage. Returns a paginated page of bill summaries (title, originating and current house, current stage, whether it became an Act). AFTER calling, pass a bill_id into bills_get_bill for 
- bills_get_bill: USE THIS TOOL WHEN you have a bill_id (from bills_search_bills) and want the full detail. Returns sponsors, current stage, long title, summary, and Royal Assent date if enacted. Summary text is capped per max_summary_chars — check summary_truncated in the response. AFTER calling,
- votes_search_divisions: USE THIS TOOL WHEN searching Commons or Lords formal votes by topic, date, or member. Returns one page of division summaries (title, date, vote counts, pass/fail) plus `total`, the source's count of all matching divisions. While `has_more` is true, re-call with offset=offset+retu
- votes_get_division: USE THIS TOOL WHEN you have a division_id + house and want the full member-by-member voting record. Voter lists are truncated to 100 per side to fit response limits; total voter counts are always accurate regardless of truncation. Chain from votes_search_divisions or parliament_g
- committees_search_committees: USE THIS TOOL WHEN searching or listing UK parliamentary select committees by name, house, or active status. Returns committee summaries (name, house, active status, ID). AFTER calling, pass committee_id into committees_get_committee for current membership, or into committees_sea
- committees_get_committee: USE THIS TOOL WHEN you have a committee_id and want the metadata + current membership. Fetches committee detail and member list in parallel. AFTER calling, pass committee_id into committees_search_evidence to see what evidence has been submitted to this committee on what topics.
- committees_search_evidence: USE THIS TOOL WHEN you have a committee_id and want the oral and written evidence submitted to it. Returns ONE PAGE of evidence (default 20) plus `total`, the source's count of matching items. evidence_type='both' lists all oral evidence first, then all written evidence, each new
- citations_parse: USE THIS TOOL WHEN you have free text (a memo, an email, a clause) and want every OSCOLA-style citation it contains extracted and classified. Identifies: neutral citations ([2024] UKSC 12), law reports ([2024] 1 WLR 100), legislation sections (s.47 Companies Act 2006), SIs (SI 20
- citations_resolve: USE THIS TOOL BEFORE constructing an OSCOLA citation string from known fields, OR to confirm a citation points at a real document. Parses + resolves a single citation (neutral citation, SI, legislation section, retained EU law) and returns parsed fields plus resolved_url. For neu
- citations_network: USE THIS TOOL WHEN you have a judgment slug and want to map every citation it makes — cases cited, legislation referenced, SIs, retained EU law. Fetches the judgment XML from TNA and parses all OSCOLA citations within. Returns citations grouped by type, deduplicated and sorted. A
- citations_format_oscola: USE THIS TOOL AFTER citations_resolve to produce the correctly formatted OSCOLA citation string. Pass the parsed fields returned by citations_resolve directly into this tool. Formats per OSCOLA 4th edition rules for each citation type. Refuses (status: upstream_validation) if con
- hmrc_get_vat_rate: USE THIS TOOL WHEN you know the UK VAT category name for a good or service and want its VAT treatment. Exact named-category lookup, not a free-text VAT classifier or tax advice. The query must equal a category name, ignoring only case, spacing, hyphens and apostrophe style. Extra
- hmrc_check_mtd_status: USE THIS TOOL WHEN you have a 9-digit VAT Registration Number and need that business's Making Tax Digital VAT mandate status. Returns whether the business is mandated for MTD, effective date, and trading name. Connects to the HMRC sandbox by default. Set HMRC_API_BASE to 'https:/
- hmrc_search_guidance: USE THIS TOOL WHEN searching GOV.UK for HMRC tax guidance on a topic (VAT, income tax, corporation tax, etc.). Returns matching guidance titles, URLs, summaries, and last-updated dates. Searches the official GOV.UK content API filtered to HMRC publications. Authoritative source f
- list_prompts: List all available prompts. Returns JSON with prompt metadata including name, description, and optional arguments.
- get_prompt: Get a prompt by name with optional arguments. Returns the rendered prompt as JSON with a messages array. Arguments should be provided as a dict mapping argument names to values.
- list_resources: List all available resources and resource templates. Returns JSON with resource metadata. Static resources have a 'uri' field, while templates have a 'uri_template' field with placeholders like {name}.
- read_resource: Read a resource by its URI. For static resources, provide the exact URI. For templated resources, provide the URI with template parameters filled in. Returns the resource content as a string. Binary content is base64-encoded.

Screening checks:
- MCP handshake: pass (Answered in 182ms)
- Domain against threat feeds (Cloudflare security DNS): pass (uk-legal-mcp.fly.dev, bouch.dev not flagged)
- Published packages against the OSV malicious-package database: pass (No malicious-package advisories)
- Hidden instructions or invisible characters in tool text: pass (35 tools read, nothing found)
- Inputs asking for passwords, card numbers or seed phrases: pass (None found)
- Domain and redirects: pass (No redirects off the domain)
- AI review of purpose and tool behavior: pass (No concerns)