get_case

Returns one Federal Court decision: its header (parties, judges, dates, catchwords, practice area), its AGLC4 citation, its heading outline, the legislation and cases it cites, and the decisions that cite it.

A judgment is not legislation. Where a response names a Commonwealth title, the title carries a status block saying whether the Federal Register records it as in force today; a title not in force has no Advisor link, only its Federal Register link.

Note: case law has its own scope, terms and limits, and your service must keep them.

Federal Court only. Advisor holds decisions of the Federal Court of Australia, cited FCA and FCAFC. It holds no other court's judgments, and no state or territory law.

What is held, and the gap. Decisions to 4 March 2025, from the Open Australian Legal Corpus, and decisions from 23 October 2026, from the Court's own published pages. Decisions between those dates are not held yet. A citation to one resolves to unresolved_in_corpus: the judgment is not held, which says nothing about whether it exists.

Reproduced unaltered, and attributed. Each answer carries attribution: "© Federal Court of Australia (Commonwealth of Australia). Reproduced unaltered under the Federal Court of Australia copyright licence." Keep it with any passage you show, and do not edit a quotation.

Not the official report. Each decision carries source_url, the Court's page. Where an authorised report exists, it governs.

How a passage was checked. anchor.label says how many independent sources a judgment's text comes from. Most decisions say "single source (OALC bootstrap; awaiting FCA Court HTML dual-source check)": no second source has been compared yet.

What a paragraph number rests on. paragraph_structure and paragraph_structure_note say it: the Court's own page (court_html), the judgment's own certificate of how many numbered paragraphs it has (certified), numbering found with no certificate to check it (numbering), a numbered list such as orders that is not paragraph numbering (unnumbered: the judgment is held as one block, 0), or no numbering at all (unsplit, disputed). Where Advisor cannot confirm that a judgment's last numbered paragraph is one paragraph, paragraph_not_confirmed says so.

Fact	Value
Tool	`get_case`
Partner scope required	`caselaw:read`
Subscriber tier required	AI Pro
Accepts `as_at`	no

Parameters

Name	Type	Required	Default
`citation_or_id`	string	yes
`list`	string	no	`null`
`limit`	integer	no	`10`
`offset`	integer	no	`0`
`cursor`	string	no	`null`

Request (get_case with {"citation_or_id":"[2026] FCA 1670","limit":3})

Python SDK

import asyncio, os
from mcp import ClientSession
from mcp.client.streamable_http import streamablehttp_client

async def main():
    headers = {"Authorization": f"Bearer {os.environ['LAWATLAS_API_KEY']}"}
    async with streamablehttp_client("https://advisor.lawatlas.ai/api/mcp", headers=headers) as (read, write, _):
        async with ClientSession(read, write) as session:
            await session.initialize()
            result = await session.call_tool("get_case", {
                "citation_or_id": "[2026] FCA 1670",
                "limit": 3
            })
            print(result.content[0].text)

asyncio.run(main())

curl

curl -s https://advisor.lawatlas.ai/api/mcp \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $LAWATLAS_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -H "Accept: application/json, text/event-stream" \
  -d '{"jsonrpc":"2.0","id":1,"method":"tools/call","params":{"name":"get_case","arguments":{"citation_or_id":"[2026] FCA 1670","limit":3}}}'

Response, as Advisor returned it on 8 November 2026. The tool's result is the JSON text of result.content[0].text; lists and long text are trimmed where marked "...".

{
  "case_id": "ae52c8e4-f6bd-4c81-a0a5-2d90bb63bf7e",
  "court": "FCA",
  "year": 2026,
  "number": 1670,
  "neutral_citation": "[2026] FCA 1670",
  "citation_aglc": "*Osborne v Dalmore Holdings Pty Ltd, in the matter of New Emerald Energy Pty Ltd (in liq) (No 2)* [2026] FCA 1670",
  "case_name": "Osborne v Dalmore Holdings Pty Ltd, in the matter of New Emerald Energy Pty Ltd (in liq) (No 2)",
  "party_applicant": "Osborne",
  "party_respondent": "Dalmore Holdings Pty Ltd, in the matter of New Emerald Energy Pty Ltd (in liq) (No 2)",
  "popular_names": [],
  "judges": [
    "Jackman J"
  ],
  "bench_size": 1,
  "is_full_court": false,
  "full_court_basis": null,
  "decision_date": "2026-11-06",
  "hearing_dates": "6 November 2026",
  "registry": "NSW",
  "division": "General Division",
  "npa": "Commercial and Corporations",
  "sub_npa": "Commercial Contracts, Banking, Finance and Insurance",
  "catchwords": "CORPORATIONS – application for orders permitting company to enter into alternative deed of company arrangement – where defendant unable to fulfil obligations under existing DOCA – where, if orders not made, existing DOCA will terminate, leading to a deemed winding up of company – where new DOCA is on materially the same terms as existing DOCA – where new DOCA will preserve anticipated payments for the benefit of creditors pursuant to the existing DOCA",
  "catchword_phrases": [
    "CORPORATIONS",
    "application for orders permitting company to enter into alternative deed of company arrangement",
    "where defendant unable to fulfil obligations under existing DOCA",
    "... 3 more"
  ],
  "orders": null,
  "legislation_cited_raw": "Corporations Act 2001 (Cth)",
  "cases_cited_raw": "Dickerson, in the matter of McWilliam’s Wines Group Ltd (Subject to Deed of Company Arrangement) (No 5) [2021] FCA 431Osborne v Wilcre Investments Pty Ltd, in the matter of New Emerald Energy Pty Ltd (in liq) [2024] FCA 1453",
  "counsel": null,
  "solicitors": null,
  "file_numbers": [],
  "lower_court": null,
  "parallel_citations": [],
  "paragraph_count": 9,
  "paragraph_structure": "certified",
  "paragraph_structure_note": "Paragraph numbers agree with the judgment's own certificate of how many numbered paragraphs it has.",
  "paragraph_not_confirmed": null,
  "word_count": 1635,
  "text_quality": "court_html",
  "metadata_source": "court_html",
  "verification_state": "single_source_court_html",
  "verification_note": null,
  "anchor": {
    "state": "single_source_court_html",
    "text_quality": "court_html",
    "metadata_source": "court_html",
    "source_html_sha256": "bfa6711c15d4c3a50d4cb976265beae0812ece3105697712b5487a1925ee4916",
    "verification_note": null,
    "label": "single source (FCA Court HTML; sha256 recorded)"
  },
  "source_url": "https://www.judgments.fedcourt.gov.au/judgments/Judgments/fca/single/2026/2026fca1670",
  "advisor_url": "/c/FCA/2026/1670",
  "legislation_cited": [
    {
      "raw": "Corporations Act 2001 (Cth)",
      "canonical_aglc": "*Corporations Act 2001* (Cth)",
      "title": "Corporations Act 2001",
      "short_title": "Corporations Act",
      "pinpoint": null,
      "source_para_num": null,
      "legislation_id": "8d10b297-598e-4127-88ae-d7411655afe1",
      "frl_title_id": "C2004A00818",
      "component": null,
      "eid": null,
      "provision_id": null,
      "resolution_status": "resolved",
      "advisor_url": "/l/C2004A00818/compilation_149/main/root"
    },
    {
      "raw": "s 447A of the Corporations Act 2001 (Cth)",
      "canonical_aglc": "*Corporations Act 2001* (Cth) s 447A",
      "title": "Corporations Act 2001",
      "short_title": "Corporations Act",
      "pinpoint": "s 447A",
      "source_para_num": 0,
      "legislation_id": "8d10b297-598e-4127-88ae-d7411655afe1",
      "frl_title_id": "C2004A00818",
      "component": "main",
      "eid": "sec_447a",
      "provision_id": "ad92e0a4-065d-4188-ab94-4e843edc2516",
      "resolution_status": "resolved",
      "advisor_url": "/l/C2004A00818/compilation_149/main/sec_447a"
    },
    {
      "raw": "Federal Court Rules 2011",
      "canonical_aglc": "*Federal Court Rules 2011* (Cth)",
      "title": "Federal Court Rules 2011",
      "short_title": "Federal Court Rules 2011",
      "pinpoint": null,
      "source_para_num": 0,
      "legislation_id": "d4d95e36-b585-4fc0-b9b9-96502615e24a",
      "frl_title_id": "F2011L01551",
      "component": null,
      "eid": null,
      "provision_id": null,
      "resolution_status": "resolved",
      "advisor_url": "/l/F2011L01551/compilation_11/main/root"
    }
  ],
  "cases_cited": [
    {
      "raw": "[2021] FCA 431",
      "canonical_aglc": "*Dickerson, in the matter of McWilliam's Wines Group Ltd (subject to Deed of Company Arrangement) (No 5)* [2021] FCA 431",
      "pinpoint": null,
      "source_para_num": null,
      "target_case_id": "a7bcb539-ce6c-4147-92f1-2f9a1e8dc8cc",
      "target_neutral_citation": "[2021] FCA 431",
      "target_case_name": "Dickerson, in the matter of McWilliam's Wines Group Ltd (subject to Deed of Company Arrangement) (No 5)",
      "resolution_status": "resolved",
      "advisor_url": "/c/FCA/2021/431"
    },
    {
      "raw": "[2024] FCA 1453",
      "canonical_aglc": "*Osborne v Wilcre Investments, in the matter of New Emerald Energy Pty Ltd (in liq)* [2024] FCA 1453",
      "pinpoint": null,
      "source_para_num": null,
      "target_case_id": "b23d4515-fdf8-4393-bdbe-7b6ff061abd8",
      "target_neutral_citation": "[2024] FCA 1453",
      "target_case_name": "Osborne v Wilcre Investments, in the matter of New Emerald Energy Pty Ltd (in liq)",
      "resolution_status": "resolved",
      "advisor_url": "/c/FCA/2024/1453"
    }
  ],
  "cited_by": [],
  "heading_outline": [],
  "titles": {
    "C2004A00818": {
      "in_force": true,
      "frl_status": "InForce",
      "since": null,
      "confirmed_with_frl_at": "2026-11-02T17:26:23.541914Z",
      "frl_link": "https://www.legislation.gov.au/Details/C2026C00432",
      "notice": "In force according to the Federal Register of Legislation, as last confirmed on the date shown.",
      "compilation": {
        "register_id": "C2026C00432",
        "compilation_no": 149,
        "check_date": "2026-11-07T17:25:09.705759Z",
        "state": "current",
        "notice": "The Federal Register listed this compilation as the current one on the check date."
      }
    },
    "F2011L01551": {
      "in_force": true,
      "frl_status": "InForce",
      "since": null,
      "confirmed_with_frl_at": "2026-11-02T17:35:12.732564Z",
      "frl_link": "https://www.legislation.gov.au/Details/F2026C00512",
      "notice": "In force according to the Federal Register of Legislation, as last confirmed on the date shown.",
      "compilation": {
        "register_id": "F2026C00512",
        "compilation_no": 11,
        "check_date": "2026-11-07T17:25:09.705759Z",
        "state": "current",
        "notice": "The Federal Register listed this compilation as the current one on the check date."
      }
    }
  },
  "lists": {
    "legislation_cited": {
      "total": 3,
      "returned": 3,
      "more": false
    },
    "cases_cited": {
      "total": 2,
      "returned": 2,
      "more": false
    },
    "cited_by": {
      "total": 0,
      "returned": 0,
      "more": false
    },
    "heading_outline": {
      "total": 0,
      "returned": 0,
      "more": false
    }
  },
  "attribution": "© Federal Court of Australia (Commonwealth of Australia). Reproduced unaltered under the Federal Court of Australia copyright licence.",
  "schema_version": "3.10",
  "limit": 3,
  "limit_requested": 3,
  "limit_applied": 3
}

Notes

Long lists come in parts. The answer gives the first limit entries (10 unless you ask) of legislation_cited, cases_cited and cited_by, and the first 40 entries of heading_outline, with every list's total in lists. Pass list with one of those names to page through it with cursor or offset. cited_by is newest first.
Each cited title's status is given once, in titles, keyed by frl_title_id.
The full text is not here. Read paragraphs with get_judgment_paragraphs.
Full Court. is_full_court and full_court_basis, as on search_cases. A Full Court's bench_size is the number of judges named, and null when none is.