This module is assessed as follows: The formal or summative assessment for this module consists of: One written assignment of 2,000 words (100%). The essay title for this assessment is as follows: \"The state possesses a huge amount of power: it can take money from our wages through taxation powers; it can take our liberty through imprisonment powers; it can send members of the armed forces to where they may have to kill or be killed. The separation of powers is a principle of Public Law that seeks to prevent the abuse of power by insisting that the main types of state legal power are exercised by people and institutions that are separate from each other,\" - Michael Doherty, Public Law (2nd edn, Routledge 2018) 257 Analyse the importance of having the main types of state legal power (legislative, executive, judicial) exercised by distinct and independent organs of state (the legislature, the executive, the judiciary)