Wyn Williams
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| Gender | Male |
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| Age | 73 |
| Date of birth | March 31,1951 |
| Zodiac sign | Aries |
| Born | Ferndale |
| United Kingdom | |
| Education | Corpus Christi College |
| Position | President of Welsh Tribunals since 2017 |
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| ID | 3362540 |
Wyn Williams Life story
Sir Wyn Lewis Williams, FLSW is a Welsh judge who is the President of Welsh Tribunals. He had been a High Court judge from 2007 until his retirement on 10 February 2017.
Post Office scandal: Call for full and fair compensation
... Sir Wyn Williams said schemes set up to compensate sub-postmasters wrongly accused of crimes was a " patchwork quilt with some holes in it"...
Post Office bosses told to repay mistaken bonuses
... And when the Post Office s annual report for 2021-22 was published, it said the target of finishing the inquiry had been " achieved" with " confirmation from Sir Wyn Williams, " the inquiry chairman - which was wrong...
Horizon scandal: Post Office boss to pay back part of bonus
... They also wrongly said inquiry chairman Sir Wyn Williams had approved bonuses relating to that support...
'We haven't had a single penny from the Post Office'
... The inquiry will hear from government, Post Office and legal representatives, after its chairman Sir Wyn Williams said in September he was " disappointed with the apparent lack of substantial progress to date"...
Post Office and Fujitsu to face inquiry over Horizon scandal
... The chair of the inquiry, Sir Wyn Williams, said the evidence he heard through the spring and summer had made a deep impression on him...
UK to fully compensate postmasters who exposed scandal
... ScandalThe new compensation scheme comes as High Court judge Sir Wyn Williams leads a public inquiry into the Post Office scandal, which has heard testimonies from Post Office staff, some of which were wrongly accused or convicted of crimes they didn t commit...
Post Office scandal: Former Post Office manager describes 'hell'
... Led by retired High Court judge Sir Wyn Williams, the inquiry is beginning with six weeks of testimony from former Post Office staff, describing the devastating impact the false accusations have had on them and their families...
Post Office scandal ruined lives, inquiry hears
... In his opening remarks, Sir Wyn Williams, the retired High Court judge who is leading the inquiry, expressed thanks to the 50 to 60 witnesses he expects to hear oral evidence from in the coming weeks...
UK to fully compensate postmasters who exposed scandal
Sub-postmasters who helped uncover the Post Office IT scandal but missed out on full compensation are to get payouts under a new government scheme.
The 555 workers won a landmark civil case against the Post Office in 2019, but saw most of their settlements swallowed up by legal fees.
They will now get the same level of compensation as other sub-postmasters who were wrongly convicted.
The Announcement comes as a public inquiry into The Scandal continues.
Between 2000 and 2014, hundreds of sub-postmasters and mistresses were wrongly accused of theft, fraud and false accounting due to faults in the Horizon computer software being used at branches across the UK.
In 2019, a group of 555 subpostmasters and mistresses successfully challenged the Post Office over the accusations in The High Court.
That case set a legal precedent and paved The Way for a series of cases in which 72 people had criminal convictions overturned.
The Post Office opened a historic shortfall scheme to compensate More Than 700 wrongfully convicted former branch managers who had personally covered shortfalls in branch accounts caused by the Horizon software.
But the 555 people who won The High Court case could not participate in the scheme, and despite winning nearly £43m in compensation in 2019, The Group 's funds were swallowed up due to a " no win, no fee" agreement with Therium, The Company which funded the litigation.
The Group only got a " small fraction" of The Settlement equating to around £20,000 each, the Treasury said.
Therium has agreed to waive its rights to any claim on the new pot of compensation.
'Absolutely parallel'Business minister Paul Scully told The Bbc 's Today programme that the compensation paid to the 555 people would be " absolutely parallel" to The Other Post Office workers who had been compensated through the historic shortfall scheme.
He Said The Group were " pioneers" and had " broken open" The Scandal .
" I want to make sure they get that full compensation, " He Said . " It is a massive scandal and it's something I Am absolutely determined to put right. "
Asked if the families of 32 out of the 555 people who have since died would be able to receive the compensation, Mr Scully said he would look into it.
Prime Minister Boris Johnson said: " While it cannot Take Away The Years of distress, the postmasters who have suffered terribly over the Post Office Horizon scandal deserve to be fairly compensated.
" That's why we'll be introducing a new compensation scheme for those who led and won The Landmark legal case over the failings, so they can receive their fair share. "
It's hard to overstate the importance of the legal precedent set by the victory of 555 subpostmasters two and a half years ago. That was The Moment that evidence came into the Public Domain about The Flaws with the Post Office 's Horizon system, and back-end access to the software.
The Judge did not Hold Back in his opinion of the Post Office , saying The System was not remotely robust, but that getting that information out of the Post Office had taken subpostmasters years, and many tens of millions of pounds in costs.
It was The Moment where the tables turned against a crown institution which had been wrongly convicting, bankrupting, and sacking its own employees for decades.
Their David v. Goliath legal battle has proved the ammunition needed for 706 branch managers who were convicted or sent to prison have been able to get those convictions quashed. It also forced the Post Office to agreed to refund 2,500 others for huge financial losses they suffered as result, although most still haven't received a penny of that money yet.
The 555 original legal trail-blazers stood and cheered as their legal victory snowballed, but were left with very little in compensation themselves. This new scheme is promising to set that right. Full details of How To claim have Not Yet been published, and there's still a lot of nervousness from those who had to fight the Post Office and the government at every turn, but this is the clearest statement yet that a fairer payment is on The Way .
ScandalThe new compensation scheme comes as High Court judge Sir Wyn Williams leads a public inquiry into the Post Office scandal, which has heard testimonies from Post Office staff, some of which were wrongly accused or convicted of crimes they didn't commit.
A total of 72 have had their names cleared So Far .
The Inquiry - which is expected to run for the rest of this Year - is examining whether the Post Office knew about faults in the IT system, Horizon, which was developed by Japanese company Fujitsu.
It will also ask how and why they were left to shoulder the blame.
The Post Office has previously said it is " sincerely sorry for the impact of the Horizon scandal on the lives of victims and their families and We Are in No Doubt about the human cost".
" In addressing The Past , our first priority is that full, fair and final compensation is provided and We Are making good progress, " it added.
The Department for Business has previously said it is " eager to see all Horizon-related issues resolved fairly and quickly, including for the 555, who played a crucial role in bringing this scandal to light".
Source of news: bbc.com
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