`search_tribunal_decisions`

Pack: uk-tribunals · Endpoint: https://gateway.pipeworx.io/uk-tribunals/mcp

No MCP client? Call it directly: GET https://gateway.pipeworx.io/v1/tools/search_tribunal_decisions for the schema, then POST the same URL with its arguments for the data.

Search UK first-tier and Upper Tribunal decisions published on GOV.UK — Employment Tribunal (first-tier, NOT the appeal tribunal), Employment Appeal Tribunal, Residential Property Tribunal, Upper Tribunal (Administrative Appeals Chamber — social security/disability/child support), and Upper Tribunal (Tax and Chancery). This is the ONLY reachable source for first-tier Employment Tribunal decisions (134,000+) — Find Case Law / uk-caselaw carries the Employment APPEAL Tribunal only, so a search there for “employment tribunal decisions” silently returns appeals, not first-instance decisions. Returns title, GOV.UK link, and publication date for each match; pass a link to get_tribunal_decision for the full text.

Parameters

Name	Type	Required	Description
`tribunal`	string	yes	Which tribunal to search. One of: ${TRIBUNAL_KEYS.join(’, ’)}. “employment” is the first-tier Employment Tribunal (the one Find Case Law does not carry); “employment_appeal” is the EAT.
`query`	string	no	Free-text search over the decision (party names, subject matter), e.g. “disability discrimination” or “unfair dismissal Tesco”.
`category`	string	no	Restrict to one tribunal decision category slug, e.g. “disability-discrimination” or “unfair-dismissal”. Call list_tribunal_categories for the exact slugs — they are not guessable from a category name and an unrecognised slug returns zero rows rather than an error.
`from_date`	string	no	Earliest publication date, YYYY-MM-DD.
`to_date`	string	no	Latest publication date, YYYY-MM-DD.
`limit`	number	no	Decisions to return, 1-50 (default 20).

Example call

Arguments

{
  "tribunal": "employment",
  "query": "disability discrimination",
  "limit": 3
}

curl

curl -X POST https://gateway.pipeworx.io/uk-tribunals/mcp \
  -H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
  -d '{"jsonrpc":"2.0","id":1,"method":"tools/call","params":{"name":"search_tribunal_decisions","arguments":{"tribunal":"employment","query":"disability discrimination","limit":3}}}'

TypeScript (@pipeworx/sdk)

import { Pipeworx } from '@pipeworx/sdk';
const pipeworx = new Pipeworx();

const result = await pipeworx.call('search_tribunal_decisions', {
  "tribunal": "employment",
  "query": "disability discrimination",
  "limit": 3
});

More examples

{
  "tribunal": "tax",
  "limit": 1
}

Connect

Add this to your MCP client config, or use one-click install buttons:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "uk-tribunals": {
      "url": "https://gateway.pipeworx.io/uk-tribunals/mcp"
    }
  }
}

See Getting Started for client-specific install steps.

search_tribunal_decisions