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BUG: User in legal group and with staff status is effectively a superuser

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bug design needed enhancement
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Description

**Describe the bug**
Users that are assigned to the "Legal" group and have _Staff Status_ enable, currently posses the following permissions among others, as documented by the permission matrix:

- Change dataspace
- Add users
- Change users

This appears to have unintended or at least unexpected consequences from the perspective of DejaCode users. Users with the permissions as described above can perform the following actions:

- Increase their privilege by making themselves a superuser
- Remove permissions from higher privileged accounts such as superusers
- Deactivating higher privileged users such as superusers

As such assigning a user to the "Legal" group and giving them _Staff Status_ is effectively the equivalent of making them a superuser.

**To Reproduce**
1. Create a user
2. Assign them to the "Legal" group
3. Enable _Staff Status_
4. Log in as the user you have created
5. Check that you can escalate your own privileges and edit superusers

**Expected behavior**

- Users should not be able to give themselves higher permissions
- Users should not be able to edit user accounts that have higher permissions than themselves
- It is questionable that the "Legal" group needs to manage the dataspace and users at all, as this is an administrative task

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