@pipeworx/law-commission

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Tools: 3

Consultation papers, reports, summaries and law-reform projects published by the Law Commission of England & Wales (lawcom.gov.uk) — the independent statutory body that reviews the law and recommends reform to Parliament.

Tools

• search_law_commission_publications(query?, limit?) — search publication titles and body text; returns title, link, date and excerpt.
• get_law_commission_publication(id?, link?) — fetch one publication’s full text, the law-reform project it belongs to, and any attached PDF reports.
• list_law_commission_projects(status?, limit?) — list law-reform workstreams, optionally filtered to current, completed, upcoming or other.

Auth

Keyless. No signup, no key.

Data sources

• https://lawcom.gov.uk/wp-json/wp/v2/publication — publications (275 live, probed 2026-09-18), custom WordPress post type.
• https://lawcom.gov.uk/wp-json/wp/v2/project — law-reform projects (118 live).
• <https://lawcom.gov.uk/wp-json/wp/v2/media?parent=> — attached PDFs.
• https://lawcom.gov.uk/wp-json/wp/v2/project_status — the four status terms (current, completed, upcoming-projects-current, other) used to resolve the status filter on list_law_commission_projects.

Welsh-language duplicates

Every publication and project the Commission issues in Welsh is a separate WordPress post — same report, same date, its own numeric id — carrying a language taxonomy term (Cymraeg, the only term the language taxonomy has; English posts carry no term at all, since English is the unmarked default). A plain title search for “leasehold” returns both “Commercial leasehold: overcoming barriers to transactions” (English) and “Lesddaliad masnachol: goresgyn rhwystrau rhag trafodion” (the same report, in Welsh) as two hits.

search_law_commission_publications and list_law_commission_projects both filter out any row carrying a language term before applying limit, so a caller gets one English row per report rather than two. The filter fetches limit * 3 rows upstream (capped at 100) to leave headroom for the ones it drops — in practice Welsh duplicates run well under half of any result set. The Welsh original is still directly reachable via get_law_commission_publication by id or link; the filter only applies to search/listing, and the returned language field on that tool tells you which you got (en / cy).

X-WP-Total from the upstream API counts both languages, so it is surfaced as total_matching_all_languages rather than total — using it as the count of English rows would overstate coverage by roughly the Welsh-duplicate share.

Caveats worth passing to a user

• This is not case law or legislation. The Commission’s own reports recommend reform; they are not binding law. legislation-uk covers legislation.gov.uk, uk-caselaw covers judgments — this pack is the third leg (Law Commission reports) named in Bruce’s “Parliamentary materials, explanatory notes and Law Commission reports” ask (docs/uk-primary-law-scope.md).
• Full report text is PDF, not HTML. The publication post body typically carries only a link to its project — no summary text and no excerpt field content — so search_law_commission_publications’ excerpt is usually empty and get_law_commission_publication’s text is one line. The actual report is the PDF in attachments. This pack does not extract PDF text.
• Search is title/body text, not the PDFs. Given the above, that means search is effectively title-only for most publications; a phrase that only appears inside the attached PDF will not match.

Tools

• search_law_commission_publications — Search consultation papers, reports, summaries and terms-of-reference published by the Law Commission of England & Wales (lawcom.gov.uk) — the independent statutory body that reviews the law and recom
• get_law_commission_publication — Fetch one Law Commission of England & Wales publication (a consultation paper, report, summary or terms-of-reference) by its id (from search_law_commission_publications) or its lawcom.gov.uk link. Ret
• list_law_commission_projects — List law-reform projects run by the Law Commission of England & Wales (lawcom.gov.uk/project) — the workstreams under which its consultation papers and reports are published, e.g. “Commercial leasehol