Sir David Basil Williams (born 18 June 1964)[1] is a British High Court judge.

He was born in Bedford and educated at Cedars Upper School in Leighton Buzzard.

He completed an LLB at the University of Leicester and the BVC at the Inns of Court School of Law.

[1][2] On 2 October 2017, he was appointed a judge of the High Court and assigned to the Family Division.

[1] Williams became more widely known to the public when he ruled in 2024 that the media could not name three judges involved in the historical family court cases related to murdered child Sara Sharif, as well as social workers and guardians, due to a "real risk" of harm to them from a "virtual lynch mob".