Legal Research Brief

Quick start

1. Download the skill and drop it into your project
2. Connect the UK Legal MCP server (instructions included)
3. Ask any UK legal question and get a structured brief

The problem

Legal research means searching legislation.gov.uk for the right Act, finding the right section, then searching for case law that interprets it, then formatting citations correctly. A junior solicitor spends 2-3 hours on this. You spend longer.

What this skill does

• Searches UK legislation and retrieves specific section text with in-force status
• Finds relevant case law filtered by court level and date
• Extracts key principles from judgments in 1-2 sentences
• All citations formatted in OSCOLA style with resolved URLs
• Checks extent: flags if a provision only applies to England and Wales, not Scotland
• Plain English summary readable by a non-lawyer
• Optional: searches Hansard for legislative intent on ambiguous provisions
• Optional: HMRC guidance lookup for tax questions

Connect the data

This skill pulls live data from UK Legal. Pick your app and paste the config below.

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "uk-legal": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://uk-legal-mcp.fly.dev/mcp"
    }
  }
}

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

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

No API key needed. Free, hosted, ready to use.

What's included

• SKILL.md file for Claude Code, Cursor, or any AI agent
• Setup guide for connecting the UK Legal MCP server
• Example prompts for different legal research tasks
• Lifetime updates