A side-by-side look at the BAILII UK Case Law and Fermat 360 MCP servers: transport, auth, tools, quality signals, and the config to install either one in Claude, Cursor, Windsurf or VS Code.
Verdict: choose BAILII UK Case Law for legal work as a local process; choose Fermat 360 for legal. You can also run both side by side in one mcpServers block.
bailii_search, bailii_get_judgment, bailii_list_courts.Rows where the two servers differ are marked.
| Spec | F Fermat 360 | |
|---|---|---|
| Category | Legal | Legal |
| Quality signal | 48/100 · Fair | 36/100 · Fair |
| Install command | Confirmed | Not confirmed yet |
| Transport | Local subprocess (stdio) | — |
| Auth | Not declared | OAuth 2.0 |
| Pricing | Not declared | Paid service |
| Required env vars | None listed | None listed |
| Verified owner | Community listing | Community listing |
| GitHub stars | 6 | 0 |
| Directory activity | 1 views 0 installs 0 upvotes | 0 views 0 installs 0 upvotes |
| Tools | 3 | Not listed |
| Full listing | View BAILII UK Case Law | View Fermat 360 |
bailii_searchFull-text search across all BAILII courts. Returns titles, citations, and links.bailii_get_judgmentRetrieve judgment text. Defaults to summary + conclusions (~5000 chars).bailii_list_courtsList available UK courts (UKSC, EWCA, EWHC, UKUT, EAT, etc).No tool names declared yet. Check the project README from the listing page.
Paste either block (or both) into your client config, e.g. claude_desktop_config.json or ~/.cursor/mcp.json. We only show a config when the install command is confirmed.
{
"mcpServers": {
"bailii-uk-case-law": {
"command": "uvx",
"args": [
"bailii-mcp"
]
}
}
}
No confirmed install command for Fermat 360 yet — follow the setup steps linked from its listing page rather than a guessed package name.