{{Short description|Welsh judge (born 1951)}} {{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}} {{Infobox officeholder | honorific_prefix = Sir | name = Wyn Williams | honorific_suffix = {{Post-nominals|country=GBR|size=100%|FLSW}} | image = Legal Service for Wales 2013 (149) (Wyn Williams cropped).JPG | caption = Williams in 2013 | office = President of Welsh Tribunals | term_start = December 2017 | term_end = March 2023 | predecessor = ''Position established'' | successor = Sir Gary Hickinbottom | office1 = Justice of the High Court | term_start1 = 11 January 2007 | term_end1 = 10 February 2017 | monarch1 = | predecessor1 = | successor1 = | office2 = | term_start2 = | term_end2 = | birth_name = Wyn Lewis Williams | birth_date = {{birth date and age|1951|03|31|df=y}} | birth_place = Ferndale, Wales | death_date = | death_place = | spouse = | alma_mater = Corpus Christi College, Oxford | signature = | website = | footnotes = }}
'''Sir Wyn Lewis Williams''' {{Post-nominals|country=GBR|FLSW}} (born 31 March 1951) is a Welsh judge who served as President of Welsh Tribunals from 2017 to 2023. He had been a High Court judge from 2007 to 2017.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.judiciary.gov.uk/announcements/high-court-retirement-of-the-honourable-sir-wyn-lewis-williams/|title=High Court: Retirement of The Honourable Sir Wyn Lewis Williams|website=www.Judiciary.gov.uk|access-date=21 December 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170819145410/https://www.judiciary.gov.uk/announcements/high-court-retirement-of-the-honourable-sir-wyn-lewis-williams/|archive-date=19 August 2017}}</ref>
==Early life and education== Wyn Lewis Williams was born in Ferndale in the Rhondda to Ronald and Nellie Williams. Educated at Rhondda County Grammar school he matriculated at Corpus Christi College, Oxford, before entering the Inns of Court School of Law in London.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/south-wales-news/rhondda/2008/02/28/president-sets-bench-mark-91466-20525982/#ixzz2EIzWyqWl |first=Bram |last=Humphries |title=President sets bench mark |access-date=6 December 2012 |date=28 February 2008}}</ref>
==Legal career== Williams was called to the bar (Inner Temple) in 1974 and made a bencher in 2007. He practised in Cardiff from 1974 to 1988 and in London from 1988 to 2004. He became a Queen's Counsel in 1992, and served as a recorder until his appointment as a specialist Chancery judge for Wales in 2004. On 11 January 2007, Williams was appointed a High Court judge,<ref>{{London Gazette |issue=58222 |page=601 |date=17 January 2007}}</ref> receiving the customary knighthood, and assigned to the Queen’s Bench Division. He served as a presiding judge for the Wales Circuit and as Deputy Chairman of the Boundary Commission for Wales.<ref>{{cite press release |url=http://www.justice.gov.uk/news/judicial-appointments/judicial-130912-107 |title=Appointment – Mr Justice Wyn Williams |access-date=6 December 2012 |date=13 September 2012}}</ref>
He was appointed president of Welsh tribunals in December 2017,<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.lawgazette.co.uk/practice/welsh-tribunals-get-their-own-senior-judge/5064085.article|title=Welsh tribunals get their own senior judge|website=LawGazette.co.uk|access-date=21 December 2017}}</ref> and retired from the post on 31 March 2023.<ref>{{cite web | url =https://www.gov.wales/new-president-of-welsh-tribunals-sworn-in | title = New President of Welsh tribunals sworn in | last = | first = | date = 2 May 2023 | website = Announcements | publisher = Welsh Government | access-date = 19 January 2024 | quote = |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20240119171919/https://www.gov.wales/new-president-of-welsh-tribunals-sworn-in|archive-date = 19 January 2024 }}</ref>
In February 2022 he began the statutory inquiry into the British Post Office scandal, projected to continue into the middle of 2024.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-60374182 |title=Post Office scandal ruined lives, inquiry hears |date=14 February 2022 |publisher=BBC News}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.postofficehorizoninquiry.org.uk/public-hearings-timeline |title=Public Hearings Timeline |website=Post Office Horizon IT Inquiry |access-date=2 January 2024}}</ref>
==Other activities== He is active in several organisations, being president of Pendyrus Male Choir, and is closely associated with Tylorstown RFC, the rugby union club for which he played as a youth. His connection with rugby was furthered in 2012 when he was appointed as an unpaid independent chairman of the Professional Regional Game Board, an organisation set up by the Welsh Rugby Union to restructure the sport in Wales.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/rugby-union/20615310 |title=Judge to chair new rugby board to run Welsh rugby |publisher=BBC Sport |date=5 December 2012 |access-date=9 December 2012}}</ref>
He is an elected Fellow of the Learned Society of Wales (FLSW).<ref name="WW 21">{{cite web |title=Williams, Hon. Sir Wyn (Lewis), (born 31 March 1951), a Judge of the High Court of Justice, Queen's Bench Division, 2007–17; President, Welsh Tribunals, since 2017; a Judge of the Courts of Appeal of Guernsey and Jersey, since 2018 |url=http://www.ukwhoswho.com/view/article/oupww/whoswho/U40082 |website=Who's Who 2021 |publisher=Oxford University Press |access-date=2 April 2021 |language=en |date=1 December 2020}}</ref>
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