Dudley Collard
William Dudley Collard was a British barrister and writer on law in the Soviet Union. Collard was a member of the Anglo-Soviet Law Association, 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.
Following the "Trial of the Anti-Soviet Trotskyist Center" in 1937, Collard published a book through the Left Book Club entitled ' which argued that the trials had been conducted fairly. Most historians now conclude that the Moscow Trials were show trials.
He was married to Elizabeth Katherine Collard''', a writer, journalist and political activist with a particular interest in Middle Eastern issues.
