# lahend.ee — Estonian court decisions

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**Repository:** https://github.com/Nimistu/lahend-mcp  
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## Description
Estonian court decisions: full-text case-law search, each ruling linked to its companies. Free.

## Claude Desktop Quick Installation
Heuristic fallback — verify the package name and runner against the repository README before running it. Uses `npx` (confidence: low):

```json
"mcpServers": {
  "lahend-ee-estonian-court-decisions": {
    "command": "npx",
    "args": ["-y","lahend-ee-estonian-court-decisions"]
  }
}
```

## Documentation & README

# lahend.ee MCP server

Free, no-API-key MCP server for **Estonian law**: court decisions, legislation
paragraph by paragraph, and EU law in Estonian - with the citation index that
links them to each other.

```
https://lahend.ee/api/lahend-mcp/mcp     (streamable HTTP)
https://lahend.ee/api/lahend-mcp/sse     (SSE)
```

No key, no sign-up, no rate limit worth mentioning. Data comes from Riigi
Teataja, EUR-Lex and HUDOC; company links come from the Estonian Business
Register via [nimistu.ee](https://nimistu.ee).

## What it can do

**Legislation is served in full**, not just case law - each paragraph is
addressable on its own, with every ruling that has ever cited it. That link is
the point of the server: 3.05 million citations extracted from the decision
texts, so you can ask what a statute means *in practice* rather than what it
says.

The corpus is **564,503 rulings**. Citations were extracted from **324,968** of
them - the rest either cite no statute or state it in a form the extractor does
not resolve. Two further coverage limits are worth knowing before you rely on a
negative result:

- **Companies are linked on ~19% of rulings.** Parties are matched by registry
  code found in the decision text, and many judgments name a company without
  ever stating its code. An empty `companies` array means no code was found -
  not that no company was involved.
- **~26% of rulings carry no `asja_kategooria`.** Filtering `search_rulings` by
  `category` silently excludes them; `list_categories` reports the
  uncategorised count alongside the per-category totals.

### Case law

| Tool | What it does |
| --- | --- |
| `search_rulings` | Full-text ruling search with optional filters: court name, case type (civil/administrative/criminal), area of law (asja_kategooria) and a decision-date range |
| `rulings_by_company` | Given an 8-digit Estonian registry code (registrikood), return every court decision that names that company, with its role (claimant/defendant/etc.) and the other parties |
| `recent_rulings` | The newest published rulings (by decision date), across all courts and areas of law |
| `list_courts` | All Estonian courts that have published decisions, each with its ruling count |
| `list_categories` | All areas of law (asja_kategooria) present in the corpus, each with its ruling count |

### Legislation

| Tool | What it does |
| --- | --- |
| `get_law_section` | Return a single § of an Estonian act, addressed the way lawyers cite it: an abbreviation and a number, e.g |
| `search_law_sections` | Full-text search across the paragraphs of every in-force Estonian act (4M+ sections) |
| `search_laws` | Find Estonian acts by title or abbreviation (KarS, TsMS, VÕS…) |
| `law_versions` | List an act's redaktsioonid (consolidated versions) with their validity ranges, newest first |

### Rulings ↔ statute

| Tool | What it does |
| --- | --- |
| `rulings_citing_section` | Given an act abbreviation and a §, return the court decisions that actually cite it, newest first, with a total count |
| `sections_cited_by_ruling` | Given a ruling id (from `search`), list the statute paragraphs it cites, with the lõiked named and each § resolved to its act |
| `most_cited_sections` | The statute paragraphs cited by the most court decisions, ranked |

### EU law in Estonian

| Tool | What it does |
| --- | --- |
| `eu_law_search` | Search EU regulations and directives, and Court of Justice / European Court of Human Rights judgments, by Estonian title or case number |
| `eu_act` | Fetch an EU regulation or directive by CELEX (e.g |
| `estonian_rulings_citing_eu_law` | Given a CELEX (an act like '32016R0679', or a Court of Justice judgment like '62014CJ0362'), return the Estonian court decisions that cite it |
| `eu_law_cited_by_ruling` | Given an Estonian ruling id (from `search`), list the EU instruments it cites - regulations, directives and Court of Justice judgments - with the articles named where the decision names them |
| `most_cited_eu_law` | Ranked by how many Estonian decisions cite them |

### Cross-register

| Tool | What it does |
| --- | --- |
| `authority_documents_for_ruling` | Given a ruling id, return documents from Estonian public-authority document registers that name the same companies - procurement files, licences, correspondence, inspections |

### Generic (ChatGPT/Claude connectors)

| Tool | What it does |
| --- | --- |
| `search` | Full-text search across Estonian LAW - both court decisions (civil, administrative and criminal rulings) and legislation (acts and their individual paragraphs), from Riigi Teataja, indexed by lahend.ee |
| `fetch` | Retrieve the full text + metadata for any `id` returned by `search` |

## Add it

Claude Code:

```bash
claude mcp add --transport http lahend https://lahend.ee/api/lahend-mcp/mcp
```

Any client that takes a remote MCP URL works the same way. `search` and
`fetch` are present so the ChatGPT and Claude connector UIs work out of the
box; the named tools above are better when you know what you want.

## Examples

- *"What does TLS § 88 say, and how have the courts applied it?"* -
  `get_law_section` then `rulings_citing_section`.
- *"Which Estonian decisions apply the GDPR?"* -
  `estonian_rulings_citing_eu_law` with CELEX `32016R0679`.
- *"Which provisions does this ruling turn on?"* - `sections_cited_by_ruling`.

## Licence

Source data is public. Built and run by Nimistu MTÜ (reg. 80673204), a
non-profit; free to use and free of advertising.