[1][2] Leggat was a senior partner in the Christchurch law firm of Weston, Ward and Lascelles.

[4] He was not selected for the tour to South Africa in 1953–54, one of several players at the time who "paid the ultimate price for being overweight".

[7] He played his last Test against the touring West Indies in Dunedin later that season, making 3 and 17, and putting on 61 for the first wicket with Bert Sutcliffe in the second innings.

Dick Brittenden said Leggat "brought to the task of opening an innings extraordinary powers of concentration, tremendous endurance, and a highly-developed cricket sense", pointing out that Leggat had batted fourteen and a half hours in scoring 290 runs (110, 14 and 166) for Canterbury in the first three innings of the 1952–53 season.

[2] Leggat was a national selector from 1959 to 1965, and chairman of the Board of Control of the New Zealand Cricket Council from 1966 until he died suddenly in Christchurch in 1973, aged 46.