ToolTrust
A2/100
Smithery

bouch-uk-legal

mcpsmithery

@Smithery

A Model Context Protocol server for UK legal research. Connects AI assistants to case law, legislation, parliamentary debates, bills, votes, committees, OSCOLA citation parsing, and HMRC tax data.

By Smithery | 61 findings | Scanned 7/4/2026 | tooltrust-scanner/v0.3.19

16 Low45 Info

Risk Summary

Safe With Normal Controls

Dep Visibility is the main signal, but overall risk remains within an acceptable range.

Potential impact: This finding indicates the tool should be reviewed before it is trusted.

Recommended action: No high-risk findings were detected in this scan, but you should still apply least-privilege defaults and rescan after changes.

Suggested policy: keep this tool behind manual approval, do not allow unattended runs, and re-scan after narrowing risky permissions.

Security Findings (61)

  • LowAS-011

    ℹ️Missing Rate-Limit / Timeout ×16

    tool performs network or execution operations but declares no rate-limit, timeout, or retry configuration

    case_law_searchlegislation_searchparliament_search_hansardparliament_find_memberparliament_member_interestsparliament_search_petitionsbills_search_billsvotes_search_divisionscommittees_search_committeescommittees_get_committeecommittees_search_evidencecitations_parsecitations_resolvecitations_networkhmrc_check_mtd_statushmrc_search_guidance

    Fix: Declare explicit rate-limit, timeout, and retry configuration for all network and execution tools. Implement exponential back-off and surface resource state to the calling agent.

  • InfoAS-014

    ℹ️Dependency Inventory Unavailable ×29

    Tool did not expose metadata.dependencies or repo_url, so supply-chain coverage is limited.

    judgment_get_headerjudgment_get_indexjudgment_get_paragraphcase_law_searchcase_law_grep_judgmentlegislation_searchlegislation_get_sectionlegislation_get_tocparliament_search_hansardparliament_vibe_checkparliament_find_memberparliament_member_debatesparliament_member_interestsparliament_search_petitionsbills_search_billsbills_get_billvotes_search_divisionsvotes_get_divisioncommittees_search_committeescommittees_get_committeecommittees_search_evidencecitations_parsecitations_resolvecitations_networkhmrc_get_vat_ratehmrc_check_mtd_statushmrc_search_guidancelist_promptsget_prompt

    Fix: Review and remediate the identified issue.

  • InfoAS-002

    ⚠️Excessive Permissions ×16

    declared capabilities: network access

    case_law_searchlegislation_searchparliament_search_hansardparliament_search_petitionsbills_search_billsvotes_search_divisionscommittees_search_committeescommittees_get_committeecommittees_search_evidencecitations_parsecitations_resolvecitations_networkhmrc_search_guidance

    declared capabilities: database access, HTTP requests

    parliament_find_member

    declared capabilities: HTTP requests

    parliament_member_interests

    declared capabilities: network access, environment variables

    hmrc_check_mtd_status

    Fix: Tool requests broad permissions (exec/fs/network). Validate input parameters using Enums where possible, and restrict file system operations to explicit allowed directories.

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