ANECDOTES ON RULE OF LAW

1. Tony Blair attending a counselling session along with his son, after his son was caught
drunk and lying on the road clearly ill.1
2. Jr. George Bush daughter, Barbara was sentenced to eight hours of community service,
put on probation for three months and ordered to attend an alcohol awareness course
for charge of underage drinking.2
3. The labour party under the leadership of Ramsay Macdonald faced parliamentary defeat
in 1924 for the government’s interference in dropping the prosecution of communist
editor john ross Campbell for publication of an open letter criticizing soldiers 3
4. Cambodian prime minister pays a fine of $3.66 for violating traffic rules by riding a
motorcycle without a helmet4
5. Australian Prime minister Malcolm Turnbull was issued a A$250 ticket for not wearing
a life jacket when he was moving his dinghy near his Sydney home.5
6. New Zealand transport minister Phil Twyford offered his resignation to Prime Minister
Jacinda Ardern for making a phone call on a domestic flight after the aircraft doors shut
in for preparation to take off. 6

1
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/1347187/A-good-kid-really-says-Blair-after-drunk-son-
is-held.html
2
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/1379000.stm
3
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zinoviev_letter
4
https://www.rfa.org/english/news/myanmar/cambodia/cambodia-pm-hun-sen-pays-fines-for-
breaking-traffic-laws-06242016162833.html
5
https://mashable.com/2017/12/29/australia-prime-minister-lifejacket/#cZ3MabwPxqq1
6
https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/politics/104196693/minister-phil-twyford-apologises-for-civil-
aviation-breach