Pakistan Case Law

MCP server — research this corpus from your AI client

Last updated: 16 August 2026 · Server version 1.0.0

Pakistan Case Law exposes its corpus of 197,365 reported Pakistani judgments (Supreme Court, Federal Shariat Court, High Courts and tribunals, 1970–2025) as a Model Context Protocol server. Any MCP-capable AI client — Claude, Claude Code, ChatGPT connectors, Cursor and others — can search the corpus and walk its citation graph directly.

Free, read-only, no API key and no account. The server opens the database in read-only mode and exposes six tools, all of which only read. It cannot modify anything.

Connection

Endpoint	`https://pakistancaselaw.com/mcp`
Transport	Streamable HTTP
Authentication	None required
Rate limit	60 tool calls per minute, per IP
Cost	Free

Claude (Desktop or web)

Settings → Connectors → Add custom connector → paste https://pakistancaselaw.com/mcp.

Claude Code

claude mcp add --transport http caselaw https://pakistancaselaw.com/mcp

Any client using a JSON config

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "caselaw": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://pakistancaselaw.com/mcp"
    }
  }
}

Tools

All six are read-only and annotated as such, so clients that support automatic permissions can run them without prompting on every call.

Tool	What it does
`caselaw_search`	Full-text search across all 197,365 judgments. Sort by `relevance` (nearest on the point, then court, bench size, recency, citations), `newest`, `oldest` or `court`.
`caselaw_lookup_citation`	Find the judgment at an exact law-report citation — journal, year and page (e.g. PLD 1995 Supreme Court 34).
`caselaw_get_case`	Fetch one judgment. `section='summary'` returns metadata plus the AI headnote; `section='full'` adds the judgment text.
`caselaw_get_citations`	Walk the citation graph forward — the precedents a judgment relied on.
`caselaw_get_cited_by`	Walk it backward — later judgments citing this one, showing how it was subsequently treated.
`caselaw_most_cited`	The most-cited landmark judgments in the corpus.

The server also ships a reusable prompt, research_proposition, which lays out a multi-step research plan for a legal proposition: re-phrase and search several ways, triage on the headnotes, then walk the citation graph in both directions.

Example prompts

“Using the Pakistan Case Law tools, find Supreme Court authority on whether bail once granted can be cancelled without strong grounds, and tell me which cases are still followed.”
“Look up PLD 1995 Supreme Court 34, summarise what it decided, then show me the later cases that cite it.”
“What are the leading Pakistani authorities on the maintainability of a constitutional petition where an alternate remedy exists? Give me the contrary authority too.”

How to rely on the results

Every result carries its citation and a link to the judgment page on this site, so any answer can be checked against the source.
Each judgment records the court's own disposition (appeal dismissed, bail granted, and so on). A judgment can state the principle you rely on while the applicant still lost on the facts — always read the outcome alongside the holding.
AI headnotes cover part of the corpus and are growing. Their absence says nothing about a case's importance.
The headnotes are machine-generated summaries. They are a triage aid, not a substitute for reading the judgment.

This is research assistance, not legal advice. Verify every authority against the official law report (PLD, SCMR, CLC, YLR, PLC, MLD and others) before relying on it in practice.

Data and privacy

The server requires no account and collects no personal data. It records anonymous usage counts and applies a per-IP rate limit to keep the service available; it does not store the content of your conversation, and it has no access to your files, chat history or any data in your AI client. The judgments themselves are public documents of the courts. See the full Privacy Policy.

About

Pakistan Case Law is built and maintained by Hamadullah Shah, an advocate practising in Pakistan. It began as a working lawyer's answer to a practical problem: Pakistani case law is scattered across law reports that are hard to search and often paywalled. The corpus, the citation graph, the AI headnotes and this MCP server are all free to use.

Contact and professional profile: LinkedIn.

Support

Questions, problems, or an error in a reported judgment: contact@pakistancaselaw.com.

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