GetLawED — Verified South African Law
Search official South African law, quote the exact section and check case citations.
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Install
One-Click Install
Add this to your `claude_desktop_config.json` file:
{
"mcpServers": {
"sa-law": {
"url": "https://getlawed.co.za/api/mcp/law"
}
}
}Remote endpoints
https://getlawed.co.za/api/mcp/lawstreamable-httpWhat it can do
Tool inventory
Tools (3)
🟢legal_library_search(query, doc_type, limit)
Search GetLawED's library of official South African legal texts (Constitutional Court, SCA, High Court, Labour, Land, Tax and tribunal judgments; Acts; regulations, rules and codes issued under them; municipal by-laws and land use schemes; Bills; Government Gazettes). Returns matching documents with the best-matching section reference where the text is split into sections, a short passage and the official source link. Absence from the library does not mean an authority does not exist.
Input Schema
{
"type": "object",
"properties": {
"query": {
"type": "string",
"description": "What to look for, in plain language (e.g. \"business rescue post-commencement tax debt\")"
},
"doc_type": {
"type": "string",
"enum": [
"judgment",
"act",
"regulation",
"bylaw",
"notice",
"bill",
"any"
],
"description": "Limit to one kind of document: regulation = regulations, rules and codes; bylaw = municipal by-laws and land use schemes (default: judgment, act and regulation)"
},
"limit": {
"type": "number",
"description": "Maximum results, 1-10 (default 5)"
}
},
"required": [
"query"
]
}🟢legal_get_section(doc_id, section)
Full text of one document section from the GetLawED library — use it to read and quote the exact provision found by legal_library_search (give the doc_id and the section reference it returned). For judgments, returns the judgment text (or the part matching "section", e.g. a paragraph number or phrase), capped at 12 000 characters.
Input Schema
{
"type": "object",
"properties": {
"doc_id": {
"type": "number",
"description": "doc_id from legal_library_search"
},
"section": {
"type": "string",
"description": "Section reference as returned (e.g. \"Section 34: Structures\") or a section number like \"34\"; optional for judgments"
}
},
"required": [
"doc_id"
]
}🟢legal_verify_citations(text)
Check the South African case citations and Acts in a piece of text against GetLawED's library of official copies and verified records. Each item comes back as found, mismatch (the citation belongs to a different case), name_only, not_found, repealed or unchecked. "not_found"/"unchecked" means "check the law reports", not "fake".
Input Schema
{
"type": "object",
"properties": {
"text": {
"type": "string",
"description": "The text containing citations (max 20 000 characters)"
}
},
"required": [
"text"
]
}Community
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