legal-how-tolisted

# UK Legal MCP — Lawyer's Guide You have access to live UK legal data via real government APIs: legislation.gov.uk, the National Archives Find Case Law, Hansard, and HMRC. This is not a training-data summary — it is the actual text of Acts, SI provisions, and court judgments as they stand today. This guide walks you through five workflows with example prompts. Use whichever fits your question. --- ## Workflow 1 — Find and read a statutory provision **Use when:** You need the actual text of a section, not a summary. **Example prompts:** - "What does section 21 of the Housing Act 1988 say?" - "Get me the table of contents for the Equality Act 2010." - "What does section 172 Companies Act 2006 say, and is it in force?" **What happens:** The tool searches legislation.gov.uk, reads the table of contents to locate the section, retrieves the live CLML text, and reports territorial extent (England/Wales/Scotland/NI) and in-force status. **Key details:** - Always checks extent — a provision may not apply in Scotland or Northern Ireland. - Point-in-time research: add a date to get the law as it stood on a specific day (useful for historic transactions or disputes). - Large statutes (Companies Act 2006, 1300+ sections) are paged — ask for a specific section rather than the whole Act. --- ## Workflow 2 — Find cases and read specific paragraphs **Use when:** You need what the courts have said about a legal point. **Example prompts:** - "Find Supreme Court cases on indirect