Rodric Williams is a Solicitor employed by the British Post Office as head of legal (dispute resolution and brand).[1] He was admitted as a solicitor 15 March 2002 with his full name being Rodric David Alun Williams.[2] He has been described by the BBC as a "top Post Office lawyer".[3] He was described in an article by The Lawyer about what they called the Post Office Scandal as one of the people dishing out orders on behalf of the Post Office.[4] Williams gave evidence in April 2024 concerning the Horizon IT scandal.[5]

Williams was a member of the Post Office’s High Court group litigation order steering group who presented possibilities for dealing with claimants including one which proposed a course that would increase expense to an extent that would lead to the abandonment of claims.[6]

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  1. ^ Hyde, John (2024-04-03). "Lawyers to figure prominently in resumed Post Office Inquiry". Law Gazette.
  2. ^ "Rodric David Alun Williams". The Law Society.
  3. ^ "Post Office lawyer 'missed' key Horizon finding". BBC News. April 19, 2024.
  4. ^ Mawardi, Adam (June 28, 2021). "First-class effort: How justice was done in the Post Office scandal". The Lawyer | Legal insight, benchmarking data and jobs.
  5. ^ Croft, Jane; Quinn, Ben (April 18, 2024). "Post Office was urged by external lawyers to 'suppress' key document, inquiry hears". The Guardian.
  6. ^ "Post Office lawyer was a jack of all trades, but failed his own". Computer Weekly.