MCP Server

BAILII Case Law.

Search UK court judgments on BAILII. Full text with section extraction. Runs locally because BAILII blocks cloud IPs.

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Run this in your terminal:

uvx bailii-mcp

Runs locally — required because BAILII Case Law blocks cloud IPs.

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Add to your config file:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "bailii": {
      "command": "uvx",
      "args": ["bailii-mcp"]
    }
  }
}

No API key. Open source. Free to use.

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Search UK case law. Read the actual judgments.

The server covers public registers. If you need it wired into your own data, internal tools, or a workflow built around your team, that's what we do.

Free to use, fork, and build on. Pull requests welcome.