Sir Valentine Fleming

Dr. Bennett takes us back in time, whilst enabling us to view the past from our present perspective, a remarkable gift … These books are most readable … very easy to read in one session, or a chapter or so at a time. … I think what interests me most about these books is the insight they present to the expectations of the community 160 years ago, as much as the revelation of the personality of the subject of the book. Fleming certainly received a lot of attention both from the politicians and the press. His ability to retain his composure and objectivity is, on my reading, one of the major threads to come through the book. … I would again highly recommend this and all the previous “Lives” for any person, practitioner or otherwise, who has any interest in the early conduct of the Courts and the practice of the law in Colonial Tasmania. - Law Letter, Autumn 2008