find-case-by-party-verify

find-case-by-party-verify is a skill for Claude Code from uk-agents/uk-legal-plugins. It costs 116 tokens per session (1,309 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A tool that finds UK court judgments by party names and checks the judgment's neutral citation in the official TNA Find Case Law record. A neutral citation is the court-assigned reference that identifies a judgment independently of a law report.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to search for a UK case, choose the correct judgment when names match more than one case, and verify its citation before relying on it.
Why use it?
It helps prevent mistaken case names or plausible-looking citations from being treated as confirmed legal sources.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin.

Part of the law-student-uk plugin — 13 skills shipped together

Good fit Use it to search for a UK case, choose the correct judgment when names match more than one case, and verify its citation before relying on it.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/uk-agents/uk-legal-plugins/find-case-by-party-verify
Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

Any agent
npx skills add uk-agents/uk-legal-plugins --skill find-case-by-party-verify
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/uk-agents/uk-legal-plugins

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install law-student-uk, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 13 skills.

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Per session 116 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,309 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00116 $0.01309
Opus 5 $0.00058 $0.00655
Sonnet 5 $0.00023 $0.00262
Haiku 4.5 $0.00012 $0.00131

Measured 9d ago against content hash ecbf34c584f9, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

find-case-by-party-verify scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 9d ago.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

law-student-uk/skills/find-case-by-party-verify/SKILL.md · 111 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 111 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

/find-case-by-party-verify

  1. Search TNA Find Case Law: case_law_search(query="<party names>").
  2. Pick the right judgment — exact title match first; list by court if multiple.
  3. Verify: citations_resolve(neutral_citation=...) for the top candidate.
  4. If resolved, report with [uk-legal MCP — TNA Find Case Law] tag and tna_uri.
  5. If unresolved, tell the user — never report an unverified citation as confirmed.

Purpose

Find a UK court judgment by party names and verify the neutral citation exists in the TNA Find Case Law corpus before reporting it to the user. The failure mode this prevents: an agent producing a plausible-looking neutral citation from training data that does not actually exist in the official record, or that has wrong details. This skill verifies first and formats second.

Workflow

Source discipline: If a uk-legal MCP tool returns empty or errored (status: empty / not_found / upstream_validation / etc.), do NOT supplement from training data or web search. Report the empty result to the user with the tool's next_steps / detail field surfaced, and ask for clarifying information (different spelling of a name, a date range, the source URL) rather than fabricating a plausible-looking answer. Empty results are HONEST signal — not a failure mode to paper over.

Step 1 — Search TNA Find Case Law

Call case_law_search(query="<party names>"). The tool returns up to 50 judgments with neutral_citation, title, court, sitting_date, and tna_uri.

  • Use the party names as the query (e.g. "Smith HMRC VAT recovery").
  • Do not supplement the query with training-data knowledge about the case — search on what the user provided.

Step 2 — Pick the right judgment

From the results:

  • If the user named both parties, look for an exact title match first (X v Y).
  • If multiple courts have heard the case (e.g. Court of Appeal and then UKSC), list them in court-of-last-resort order: UKSC → Court of Appeal → High Court.
  • If no result is returned, ask the user for a year or a court hint before retrying with a revised query. Do not fabricate a candidate.

Read the full file on GitHub · 111 lines

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. 9d ago First seen · 111 lines · 116 tokens per session scan A ecbf34c584f9

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find-case-by-party-verify is a skill published in the GitHub repository uk-agents/uk-legal-plugins (9 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 116 tokens to every session and 1,309 once invoked, about $0.0006 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-09-03.

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