# Dudley Collard

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**William Dudley Collard** (1907–1963) was a British [barrister](/source/Barrister) and writer on law in the [Soviet Union](/source/Soviet_Union). Collard was a member of the Anglo-Soviet Law Association,[1] and represented the [Communist Party of Great Britain](/source/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](/source/Moscow_Trials)), Collard published a book through the [Left Book Club](/source/Left_Book_Club) entitled *[Soviet Justice and the Trial of Radek and Others](https://archive.org/details/SovietJusticeAndTheTrialOfRadekAndOthers)* which argued that the trials had been conducted fairly. Most historians now conclude that the [Moscow Trials](/source/Moscow_Trials) were [show trials](/source/Show_trial).[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.[6]

## See also

- [Denis Pritt](/source/Denis_Pritt) — wrote the introduction to Collard's *Soviet Justice*

## References

1. G. M. Sverdlov (April 1948). "Modern Soviet Divorce Practice". *The Modern Law Review*. **11** (2): 163–175. [doi:10.1111/j.1468-2230.1948.tb00081.x](https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-2230.1948.tb00081.x). [JSTOR 1090382](https://www.jstor.org/stable/1090382)

1. ["KV 2/2160"](http://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/SearchUI/details/C11270899?ref=KV+2/2160). National Archives.

1. Mark A. Bradley (29 April 2014). [*A Very Principled Boy: The Life of Duncan Lee, Red Spy and Cold Warrior*](https://books.google.com/books?id=EQYBAwAAQBAJ&pg=PA30). Basic Books. pp. 30–31. ISBN 978-0-465-03009-5.

1. David Caute (1 January 1988). [*The Fellow-travellers: Intellectual Friends of Communism*](https://archive.org/details/fellowtravellers00caut). Yale University Press. p. [127](https://archive.org/details/fellowtravellers00caut/page/127). ISBN 978-0-300-04195-8.

1. David Aaronovitch (25 January 2011). [*Voodoo Histories: How Conspiracy Theory Has Shaped Modern History*](https://books.google.com/books?id=EflJpmpR-6kC&pg=PA74). Random House. pp. 64–65. ISBN 978-1-4464-2429-2.

1. Peter Mansfield (1979). "Mrs. Elizabeth Collard (1911-1978)". *British Society for Middle Eastern Studies Bulletin*. **6** (1): 78–79. [JSTOR 194374](https://www.jstor.org/stable/194374)

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