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Under the new proposal, a CHIS granted a criminal conduct authorisation would know while in the field that, although they will be protected from prosecution or other liability for proportionate acts of criminality to keep their cover or prevent or detect serious criminality, they may have to explain and defend their actions subsequently to investigators, prosecutors and even courts. In other words, they will be protected by the law but not sit completely above it, as in the current breathtakingly broad and vague arrangements.