Uk Tribunals MCP server

UK Tribunal Decisions — GOV.UK

First-instance and Upper Tribunal decisions published on GOV.UK: the first-tier Employment Tribunal, the Employment Appeal Tribunal, the Residential Property Tribunal, the Upper Tribunal (Administrative Appeals Chamber — social security, disability and child support appeals), and the Upper Tribunal (Tax and Chancery Chamber).

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The reason this pack exists: Find Case Law (uk-caselaw) carries the Employment Appeal Tribunal only — it has no court code for the first-tier Employment Tribunal. So a search there for "employment tribunal decisions" silently returns EAT appeals, and the 134,000+ first-tier ET decisions GOV.UK actually publishes were unreachable anywhere in the catalog before this pack. uk-caselaw remains the right pack for appeals and every other UK court.

Auth

None. Keyless GOV.UK search + content API.

Tools

The usual path is searchtribunaldecisions → take a result's link → gettribunaldecision.

The five tribunals

GOV.UK also publishes a generic decision content type (~13,000 items) — deliberately not exposed here. It is teacher-misconduct panel outcomes, medicine licence suspensions and other professional-regulator decisions, not tribunal decisions; routing a tribunal question there would silently answer it with the wrong kind of document.

Data shape traps worth knowing

returns textavailable: false when GOV.UK has not extracted text — this is the norm for Tax and Chancery Chamber decisions, which are PDF-only. pdfurl is always returned when a PDF exists.

• Full text is not published for every decision. gettribunaldecision

Employment Appeal and Administrative Appeals use a plural array (tribunaldecisioncategories); Residential Property and Tax use a singular string (tribunaldecisioncategory). Filtering searchtribunaldecisions by category against the wrong field name doesn't error upstream — it just matches nothing, which reads as "no such category" rather than "wrong field". This pack routes on the right field per tribunal internally; category takes the same slug regardless of which field backs it.

• The category field name is not the same across tribunals. Employment,

details.facets in the GOV.UK content API — not a hardcoded list. GOV.UK adds and renames categories over time; a hardcoded list would go stale silently.

• listtribunalcategories reads live, off each tribunal finder page's own

Data sources

is the full extracted decision text where published; details.attachments[] carries the original PDF(s) on assets.publishing.service.gov.uk.

• Search: https://www.gov.uk/api/search.json?filtercontentstoredocumenttype=
• Item: https://www.gov.uk/api/content — details.metadata.hiddenindexablecontent

details.facets.

• Category facets: https://www.gov.uk/api/content/ —

Crown copyright, published under the Open Government Licence v3.0.

Shortened. The full README is on GitHub.