Law Commission MCP server

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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.

Part of Pipeworx — an MCP gateway connecting AI agents to 1679+ live data sources.

Tools

titles and body text; returns title, link, date and excerpt.

• searchlawcommission_publications(query?, limit?) — search publication

text, the law-reform project it belongs to, and any attached PDF reports.

• getlawcommission_publication(id?, link?) — fetch one publication's full

workstreams, optionally filtered to current, completed, upcoming or other.

• listlawcommission_projects(status?, limit?) — list law-reform

Auth

Keyless. No signup, no key.

Data sources

probed 2026-09-18), custom WordPress post type.

• — publications (275 live,

(current, completed, upcoming-projects-current, other) used to resolve the status filter on listlawcommission_projects.

• — law-reform projects (118 live).
• > — attached PDFs.
• — the four status terms

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.

searchlawcommissionpublications and listlawcommissionprojects 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 getlawcommissionpublication 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 totalmatchingall_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

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).

• This is not case law or legislation. The Commission's own reports

carries only a link to its project — no summary text and no excerpt field content — so searchlawcommissionpublications' excerpt is usually empty and getlawcommissionpublication's text is one line. The actual report is the PDF in attachments. This pack does not extract PDF text.

• Full report text is PDF, not HTML. The publication post body typically

search is effectively title-only for most publications; a phrase that only appears inside the attached PDF will not match.

• Search is title/body text, not the PDFs. Given the above, that means

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