Kenyan case law API

Kenyan judgments, ready to use in software.

Search cases, retrieve judgment text, resolve citations, or connect Emerald to Claude and other MCP clients.

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Find the case you need.

Search the judgments already in Emerald by legal issue, party name, citation, or words from the judgment. Court and date filters are available through the API.

API

Use the cases from your own application.

The REST API covers search, case metadata, full judgment text, citation lookup and new-case updates. Requests use an Emerald API key.

Read the API guide →

Search judgments

curl "https://emerald.up.railway.app/v1/search?q=adverse+possession" \
  -H "X-API-Key: em_live_..."

MCP

Connect Emerald to an assistant.

The MCP server lets a compatible assistant search Emerald, inspect a case and read judgment text in chunks. It uses the same database as the API.

MCP setup →

Endpointhttps://emerald.up.railway.app/mcp

search_casesSearch judgments

get_caseGet case details and source

get_case_textRead the judgment in chunks

resolve_citationFind a case by citation

recent_casesSee recently added cases

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Pricing

Start with KES 100.

Pay as you go is the default. One request costs KES 0.10, and unused credit does not expire.

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