vlex – including Irwin Law & Emond Criminal Law Series

vLex Canadian collection offers both unreported judgments and reported case law, such as the

  • Containing over 500,000 Canadian cases, dating back to 1876 including:
    • Supreme Court of Appeal and appellate courts of Alberta, British Columbia, Manitoba, New Brunswick, the Northwest Territories, Nova Scotia, Nunavut, Ontario, Saskatchewan, and Yukon
  • Maritime Law Book series, one of the most significant and comprehensive resources of Canadian case law available including Ontario Appeal Cases and Ontario Trial Reports.
  • Legislation, draft bills
  • Legal Commentary, news, blogs, books & journals
  • Irwin Law – Essentials in Canadian Law Series (more below)
  • Emond – Criminal Law Series (more below)
  • Updated daily

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Emond Criminal Law Series

Flyer about Emond Criminal Law Series on e-LiRN

Emond’s award-winning Criminal Law Series  provides clear and concise guidance on the practical and procedural aspects of criminal law. Tailored for members of the criminal bar and judiciary, this comprehensive collection addresses specific areas of criminal practice and is grounded in the expertise of General Editors Brian H. Greenspan and Justice Vincenzo Rondinelli. With contributions from both defence and Crown counsel, the series offers a balanced and authoritative perspective on criminal law.

How to Use Emond

Access to Emond titles is limited by vlex’s license with them.    You cannot Print and Download – only copy & paste sections from the books.  You are not permitted to download an entire Chapter.

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Detailed Table of Contents of Emond’s Criminal Law Series

  • Prosecuting and Defending YOUTH CRIMINAL JUSTICE CASES Second Edition
  • CRIMINAL APPEALS A Practitioner’s Handbook
  • Prosecuting and Defending EXTRADITION CASES: A Practitioner’s Handbook
  • Prosecuting and DEFENDING SEXUAL ASSAULT CASES, 2nd Edition
  • DIGITAL EVIDENCE, 2nd Edition
  • Prosecuting and Defending FRAUD CASES Second Edition
  • INDIGENOUS PEOPLE AND THE CRIMINAL JUSTICE SYSTEM Second Edition
  • CHARTER REMEDIES IN CRIMINAL CASES A Practitioner’s Handbook
  • IMPAIRED DRIVING and other CRIMINAL CODE DRIVING OFFENCES A Practitioner’s Handbook
  • Prosecuting and Defending OFFENCES AGAINST CHILDREN A Practitioner’s Handbook
  • Prosecuting and Defending DRUG CASES A Practitioner’s Handbook
  • SENTENCING Principles and Practice
  • Prosecuting and Defending PROFESSIONAL REGULATION CASES
  • SEARCH AND SEIZURE
  • Qualifying and Challenging EXPERT EVIDENCE
  • MODERN CRIMINAL EVIDENCE

Irwin Law – Essentials in Canadian Law Series

Containing over 300 books, this collection analyses the complex issues of the day in a succinct and readable style, and in a manner that is probing and thoughtful.  The Irwin Law book collection brings an innovative approach to legal publishing that does more than outline the current state of the law. With a focus on Canadian law as well as some international topics, the Irwin law collection covers a wide range of practice areas.  Exclusive Access to Irwin Law E-Library collection.

To see the Irwin Law titles available on vlex, as well as other e-textbooks, please consult OCLA’s –Core List of Materials – Electronic Titles Tab which is updated to reflect the e-LiRN electronic texts’ collection.  Select ALL titles to see the Irwin Law titles.

Irwin Law Titles List and eLibrary Stable Links Nov 2025

How to search and best utilize Irwin Law video.

Vincent AI

vLex’s powerful legal research assistant, Vincent, is the first search and discovery aid of its kind to connect with one of the world’s largest legal databases – reducing risk, saving time and improving results. Download the guide to explore all of the features of this award-winning technology.

vLex has enhanced Vincent AI’s capabilities to include a new feature called Case Analysis. Vincent, using large-scale language models, can now read cases, extract key information, and automatically produce summarised headnotes – helping legal professionals understand the important issues addressed in a judgment at a glance.

Easy to use
Vincent’s intuitive drag-and-drop interface enables you to upload a relevant document, whether it’s a case, a skeleton argument, or any other legal document. You can also type or copy and paste relevant information into the text box as a starting point, to see where Vincent takes you.

An advantageous start
Vincent reads lengthy documents in seconds to find citations and party names. It can also identify key phrases, understand the content and find semantically similar documents. Vincent will return a unique set of highly relevant search results in a matter of seconds, which would have taken hours to compile manually

Extract key legal issues
Vincent AI will read and extract the key legal issues from a judgment to provide you with an understanding of the issues addressed within the case.

Headnotes and summaries
With only around 20% of cases being reported in many regions around the world, Vincent AI can help you navigate to the right case by providing automatically generated headnotes to help you understand the case without needing to read the full judgment. Importantly, Vincent can help with legal research, but you should always console and confirm any details within the source material before relying on it.

Vincent AI User Guide

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