Peter Lawrence Oppenheim Leaver, KC (28 November 1944 – 2 September 2026) was a British barrister, judge and administrator who was chief executive of the Premier League from 1997 to 1999.
Leaver was educated at Aldenham School and Trinity College Dublin and a member of One Essex Court for many years.‘LEAVER, Peter Lawrence Oppenheim’, Who's Who 2016, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 2016; online edn, Oxford University Press, 2015 He was a deputy High Court judge from 1994 to 2017, and was chairman of the London Court of International Arbitration from 2008 to 2012.
Leaver died on 2 September 2026, aged 81. He was the father of the publishing executive Marcus Leaver.
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