Kevin P. Jarvis called to the Bar in 2025 as a Lord Hope Scholar.

Prior to calling, Kevin conducted work as a legally qualified civil servant at the Crown Office and Procurator Fiscal Service, with whom he completed his training contract. During his training, Kevin was seconded to EuroJust, the European Union Agency for Criminal Justice co-operation, in the Hague., Kevin worked on the UK desk at EuroJust, to co-operate with national judicial and policing authorities including the National Crime Agency and Europol, on cases involving prosecution of serious organised cross-border crime by criminal groups.

After his training period, Kevin worked as a Procurator Fiscal Depute for seven years, prosecuting a range of offences in different Courts across different Sheriffdoms, including in Airdrie, Ayr, Edinburgh, Kilmarnock, Lanark, Livingston and the specialist Domestic Abuse Unit in Glasgow.

Kevin has extensive court experience at both solemn and summary level and has an excellent working knowledge of criminal procedure. Latterly at COPFS, Kevin was promoted to the role of Senior Procurator Fiscal Depute, where he worked across the Sheriffdom of South Strathclyde Dumfries and Galloway including in Dumfries and Stranraer, to prosecute a range of complex and high-profile solemn-level cases, including historic child abuse offences in institutions, sexual offences against persons in positions of trust and domestic offences involving multiple complainers.

Kevin was accredited as a trauma-informed domestic abuse and sexual offences prosecutor, which seen him regularly involved in cases with vulnerable, including child, witnesses. He also prosecuted serious financial crimes, including multi-company insurance fraud, misuse of drugs offences, violent, firearms, and serious organised crime offences, which involved professional and expert witnesses.  Kevin is recognised for his personable advocacy style.