William Dudley Collard (1907–1963) was a British barrister and writer on law in the Soviet Union.
Collard was a member of the Anglo-Soviet Law Association,[1] and represented the Communist Party of Great Britain as a lawyer.
His affiliation with communism led to the intelligence services keeping a file on him.
[2] Following the "Trial of the Anti-Soviet Trotskyist Center" in 1937 (the second of the Moscow Trials), Collard published a book through the Left Book Club entitled Soviet Justice and the Trial of Radek and Others which argued that the trials had been conducted fairly.
[3][4][5] He was married to Elizabeth Katherine Collard (1911—28 December 1978), a writer, journalist and political activist with a particular interest in Middle Eastern issues.