The phrase "account of a case" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to a detailed description or report regarding a specific legal case or situation.
Example: "The lawyer provided a thorough account of the case during the trial, highlighting all the key evidence and arguments."
Alternatives: "report on a case" or "narrative of a case".
She writes: [The First Stone] is the story of the author's thwarted attempt to write a 'quiet, thoughtful account' of a case of sexual harassment in Melbourne, Australia, and of the remarkable, almost vertiginously turbulent narrative she was forced by her frustration to produce instead … Although her purported goal is 'balance', it is as a very unbalanced person that she represents herself.
That account of a case like Garner v Burr would support the controversial claim that judges have widespread discretion in resolving legal disputes.
Suffice it to say, just a day before Mahon's office was raided on account of Enbridge, a case put forward by the California logging company Resolute against Stand.earth and Greenpeace was dismissed as fraudulent.
An account of a prominent case in which an artifact was successfully returned to Iraq illustrates how unlikely such episodes are, however.
Couch Fiction (Palgrave Macmillan) is Perry's clever, funny account of a psychotherapy case study, and makes good use of the graphic novel's format, thought and speech bubbles appearing side by side within the same frame.
Last November, Rolling Stone became embroiled in controversy after it published a discredited account of a rape case at the University of Virginia.
There is no reason why an astutely observed, reflexive and theoretically rich account of a single case could not make a significant contribution.
"The Challenge" is not just a very readable account of an important case.
Last year in these pages, Natalie Angier called this a "riveting, cleanly written and brilliantly researched account of a world-famous case".
Every narrative tactic that Anne Perry executes with a graceful flick of the wrist, David Morrell attacks with balled fists in MURDER AS A FINE ART (Mulholland/Little, Brown, $25.99), a hot-blooded account of a mid-Victorian case of multiple murder.
River's Edge is a fictionalized account of a 1981 murder case in Milpitas, California, in which 16-year-old Anthony Jacques Broussard strangled 14-year-old Marcy Conrad and dumped her body near the foothills outside of town.
