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Legal How To

Category: Science & Research  ·  Sub-category: research-methods  ·  Last updated:
A practical guide for UK lawyers and legal researchers using Claude with the UK Legal MCP server. Explains the five core research workflows — legislation lookup, case law drill-down, citation tracing, parliamentary intent, and HMRC guidance — with example prompts and real output. Use when a lawyer wants to understand what the tools can do or how to structure a legal research session.

From the source SKILL.md

You have access to live UK legal data via real government APIs: legislation.gov.uk, the National Archives Find Case Law, Hansard, and HMRC. This is not a training-data summary — it is the actual text of Acts, SI provisions, and court judgments as they stand today.

What this skill does

Legal How To is a community-contributed Claude Code skill in the research-methods sub-category. It ships as a SKILL.md file that Claude Code auto-discovers under ~/.claude/skills/legal-how-to/ and loads when your prompt matches the skill's trigger.

When to invoke it: Use when a lawyer wants to understand what the tools can do or how to structure a legal research session.

Who uses this skill

The Legal How To Claude Code skill is built for researchers, data scientists, academics, and analysts working with complex data and scientific literature. It's part of ClaudSkills (also referred to as Claude Skills or Claude Code Skills) — the open community-curated registry of 69,000+ SKILL.md files for Anthropic's Claude Code agent and the wider Claude ecosystem (Claude API, Claude Agent SDK).

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Manual install (2 steps)

mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills/legal-how-to
curl -L https://claudskills.com/skills/legal-how-to/SKILL.md \
  -o ~/.claude/skills/legal-how-to/SKILL.md

Or just download SKILL.md directly and drop it into ~/.claude/skills/legal-how-to/. Claude Code auto-discovers it on next session.

Skills live at ~/.claude/skills/legal-how-to/SKILL.md on macOS/Linux, or %USERPROFILE%\.claude\skills\legal-how-to\SKILL.md on Windows. See the full install guide for step-by-step instructions.

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