Legal Skill · Free
Legal Research Brief
Ask a legal question. Get statute, case law, and citations.
Requires the UK Legal MCP server
A Claude skill that researches UK legal questions and produces structured briefs. Finds the relevant legislation, pulls the actual section text, searches case law, formats all citations in OSCOLA style, and gives you a plain English summary.
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 it does
Features
- 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
Getting started
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
Data sources
MCP server
UK Legal
https://uk-legal-mcp.fly.dev/mcp
Free download
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
Who it's for: Solicitors, paralegals, business owners checking compliance, property investors, researchers