BAILII MCP

Name: BAILII MCP
Author: paulieb89

paulieb89

Searches UK court judgments on BAILII and returns full text with section extraction; runs locally because BAILII blocks cloud IPs.

Setup

Choose your client, copy the config, then fill in any required environment variables.

claude mcp add bailii -- uvx bailii-mcp

~/.codex/config.toml

[mcp_servers.bailii]
command = "uvx"
args = ["bailii-mcp"]

# codex mcp add bailii -- uvx bailii-mcp

~/.cursor/mcp.json

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

.vscode/mcp.json

{
  "servers": {
    "bailii": {
      "type": "stdio",
      "command": "uvx",
      "args": [
        "bailii-mcp"
      ]
    }
  }
}

~/.gemini/settings.json

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

claude_desktop_config.json

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

.trae/mcp.json

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