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Claude

Open the listing above and select Connect.
Sign in to Res Ipsa and authorise the connection.
In a chat, open + → Connectors, enable Res Ipsa and ask your question.

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Claude’s connection guide

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Open the listing above and select Install plugin.
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Start a chat, select Res Ipsa and ask your question.

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If installation is unavailable, ask your workspace administrator to enable Res Ipsa.

Ask your first question.

“Using Res Ipsa, find New Zealand authorities on whether a contractual exclusion clause covers negligence. Then note up the leading cases.”

Manual connection

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https://mcp.resipsa.ai/mcp

Microsoft 365 Copilot

Your Microsoft 365 administrator must set up the Res Ipsa connector for your firm. Once it is available, connect and sign in with your own Res Ipsa account.

For administrators

Contact [email protected] to arrange OAuth registration.
In the Microsoft 365 admin centre, open Copilot → Connectors → Gallery.
Under Created by your org, add a custom connector with the Res Ipsa address and agreed OAuth settings.
Test the connection with a small group before making it available to the firm.

Microsoft’s administrator guide

Gemini availability

Google’s custom MCP connections are currently limited to users in the United States. They are not yet available in New Zealand.

Check Google’s availability requirements

Research with Res Ipsa.

Find authorities: Ask for New Zealand cases by issue, citation or party name. Include England & Wales judgments for persuasive comparative authority.
Note up a New Zealand case: Find later decisions that applied, followed, distinguished, doubted, did not follow or overruled it.
Check legislation at a past date: Give the Act or regulation and the date relevant to your dispute.

Reading treatment signals and legislation results

Treatment signals are leads to check, not rulings. Open the linked judgments to assess the court’s reasoning.

In force describes the current status of the Act or regulation. Check the commencement of the relevant provision and the version that applied at the date you need.

Tool reference: 11 read-only tools

New Zealand

nz_search_case_law: Find New Zealand cases by issue, facts or legal principle.
nz_find_judgment_by_citation: Find a New Zealand case by citation or party name.
nz_find_authorities_by_case_citation: Find later New Zealand cases that cite a decision and show how they treated it.
nz_find_authorities_by_statute_reference: Cases that interpret a given statutory provision.
nz_search_legislation: Search Acts and regulations. Ask for the version at a past date. Searches default to legislation currently marked In force.
nz_good_law: Check later treatment of a New Zealand case and find the judgments behind the assessment.
nz_case_dossier: See a case’s citation history, later treatment and the reasons courts cite it.
nz_rank_authorities: Compare the authority of New Zealand cases using court level and citation history.
nz_cases_on_provision: Find and rank cases that interpret a statutory provision.
nz_leading_authority: Find foundational, recent and controlling New Zealand authorities on an issue.

England & Wales

englandwales_search_case_law: Search England & Wales judgments for persuasive comparative authority. Citation history and treatment tools cover New Zealand cases.

England & Wales source: Find Case Law, The National Archives. Contains information licensed under the Open Justice Licence v2.0.

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