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Jo Verrico has long experience in conveyancing, and has worked before with solicitors' firms that were fully insured and regulated. It is fair for Jo Verrico to defend her position publicly given the high public profile of this issue. No doubt her professional indemnity insurers have a say in the matter, and being a practitioner in a compact locality in East Kent, adverse publicity would impact significantly on her practice. She needs to have the record straight. It is the client's ultimate responsibility to check on the correctness of stamp duty liability.