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The National Archives API: Search judgments

Searches UK court judgments and tribunal decisions on Find Case Law by keywords or party names. Results can be filtered by court and by judgment date.

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Inputs

Values from the run on Oct 23, 2026, shown under Output.

Page optionalpage

Page of results, for example 2. Defaults to 1.

1 (default)

Whole number 1 or more.

Sort optionalsort

Result order, for example newest. Defaults to relevance.

relevance (default)

One of relevance, newest, oldest.

Court optionalcourt

Court or tribunal name, for example Supreme Court, Court of Appeal or Employment Appeal Tribunal. Defaults to all.

all (default)

Query, requiredquery

Keywords or party names to search, for example Uber v Aslam.

Uber v Aslam

Max Results optionalmax_results

Maximum judgments to return (up to 50).

20 (default)

Whole number from 1 to 50.

Decided After optionaldecided_after

Include judgments on or after this date, YYYY-MM-DD.

Not set

Decided Before optionaldecided_before

Include judgments on or before this date, YYYY-MM-DD.

Not set

Output

From a run on Oct 23, 2026, shortened for this page.
{  "judgments": [    {      "court": "Court of Appeal (Civil Division)",      "snippet": "UBER B.V. (“UBV”...",      "pdf_link": "https://caselaw.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ewca/civ/2018/2748/data.pdf",      "case_name": "Uber B.V. (\"UBV\") & Ors v Aslam & Ors",      "judgment_date": "2018-12-19",      "judgment_link": "https://caselaw.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ewca/civ/2018/2748",      "neutral_citation": "[2018] EWCA Civ 2748"    },    {      "court": "United Kingdom Supreme Court",      "snippet": "Uber BV and others",      "pdf_link": "https://caselaw.nationalarchives.gov.uk/uksc/2021/5/data.pdf",      "case_name": "Uber BV and others v Aslam and others",      "judgment_date": "2021-02-19",      "judgment_link": "https://caselaw.nationalarchives.gov.uk/uksc/2021/5",      "neutral_citation": "[2021] UKSC 5"    },    {      "court": "United Kingdom Supreme Court",      "snippet": "Uber Britannia Limited",      "pdf_link": "https://caselaw.nationalarchives.gov.uk/uksc/2025/31/data.pdf",      "case_name": "D.E.L.T.A. Merseyside Limited and another v Uber Britannia Limited",      "judgment_date": "2025-07-29",      "judgment_link": "https://caselaw.nationalarchives.gov.uk/uksc/2025/31",      "neutral_citation": "[2025] UKSC 31"    }  ]}
Price
1 credit per completed run (1¢ with pay as you go); failed runs are free.
Method
caselaw.nationalarchives.gov.uk/search_judgments
Returns
case name, court, date, neutral citation, snippet, judgment link, PDF link

Use it from your agent

Give your agent this line. It reads SKILL.md, gets a Fous API key and connects the Fous MCP server. Its run then takes the method caselaw.nationalarchives.gov.uk/search_judgments with the inputs above.

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