Map all citations within a judgment — cases cited, legislation referenced, SIs, EU law. Fetches the judgment XML from TNA and parses all OSCOLA citations within it. Returns citations grouped by type for easy analysis. Each bucket is de-duplicated and sorted.
AI agents call citations_network to retrieve information from Uk Legal without modifying anything — typically the context-gathering step in research, monitoring, and reporting workflows, before the agent takes action elsewhere.
| Parameter | Type | Required | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
params | object | — | CitationsNetworkInput with case_uri (TNA slug, e.g. 'uksc/2024/12'). |
Parameters from the server's own tool schema.
This tool retrieves and analyzes existing citation data from judicial judgments. It extracts and organizes information about cases cited, legislation referenced, and related legal citations, but performs no mutations, deletions, or external side effects. The operation is purely informational—mapping and grouping citations for analysis.
From the tool's definition The tool 'fetches the judgment XML from TNA and parses all OSCOLA citations within it' and 'returns citations grouped by type for easy analysis.' It performs data retrieval and parsing operations with no modification, creation, or deletion of data.
Documented attack patterns abuse exactly the kind of access citations_network gives an agent:
PolicyLayer is an MCP gateway — it sits between your AI agents and Uk Legal, and nothing reaches the server without passing your rules. This is the rule we recommend for citations_network:
{
"version": "1",
"default": "deny",
"tools": {
"citations_network": {}
}
}citations_network is read-only, so it stays allowed — but everything else on the server is denied unless you say otherwise.
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Map all citations within a judgment — cases cited, legislation referenced, SIs, EU law. Fetches the judgment XML from TNA and parses all OSCOLA citations within it. Returns citations grouped by type for easy analysis. Each bucket is de-duplicated and sorted. It is categorised as a Read tool in the Uk Legal MCP Server, which means it retrieves data without modifying state.
citations_network accepts 1 parameter: params. The full parameter table on this page comes from the server's own tool schema.
Register the Uk Legal MCP server in PolicyLayer and add a rule for citations_network: allow, deny, rate-limit, or require approval. Point your MCP client at the PolicyLayer proxy URL and the rule is enforced on every call, before it reaches Uk Legal. Nothing to install.
citations_network is a Read tool with low risk. Read-only tools are generally safe to allow by default.
Yes. Add a rate_limit block to the citations_network rule in your PolicyLayer policy. For example, setting max: 10 and window: 60 limits the tool to 10 calls per minute. Rate limits are tracked per agent session and reset automatically.
Set action: deny in the PolicyLayer policy for citations_network. The AI agent will receive a policy violation error and cannot call the tool. You can also include a reason field to explain why the tool is blocked.
citations_network is provided by the Uk Legal MCP server (bouch/uk-legal). PolicyLayer sits as a proxy in front of this server to enforce policies before tool calls reach the server.
Start from Uk Legal, add the rest of your stack, and see everything your agents can call. Then put policy on all of it.
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