Stuart Munro is Livingstone Brown's Managing Director, and the head of the Specialist Litigation Department. With over thirty years’ experience, his main interest is in white collar crime and associated litigation. Stuart has been involved in many of the highest-profile such cases in Scotland in recent years. He represented the first postmaster in Scotland to have their wrongful conviction overturned after the Post Office Horizon scandal came to light, and appeared in the subsequent public inquiry. He has acted in a number of Supreme Court cases, including the Scottish independence referendum case. Stuart is regularly instructed by individuals and corporates in relation to investigations, prosecutions and related matters (such as public inquiries, connected civil litigations, and cases brought under the Proceeds of Crime Act). He is a solicitor advocate, with extended rights of audience in the High Court of Justiciary, Court of Session and UK Supreme Court. Stuart is ranked Band 1 in Chambers 2025 for both fraud and general crime, the only lawyer in Scotland to be so recognised, and is a Legal 500 Recommended Lawyer. In 2024 he was named Solicitor of the Year at the Law Awards of Scotland. Stuart sits on the Council of the Law Society of Scotland. He is the Convener of the Society’s influential Criminal Law Committee. He also has a keen interest in technology and its applications in the justice system. He is a member of the Law Society of Scotland’s Technology Law and Practice Committee.