No oral amendment

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“No oral modification” is a self-contradictory stricture on an amendment agreement, until 2018 understood by all to be silly fluff put in a contract to appease the lawyers.

No longer, as it ought to be, an entirely vacuous piece of legal flannel — courtesy of an entirely vacuous piece of legal reasoning by no less an eminence than Lord Sumption of the Supreme Court in Rock Advertising Limited v MWB Business Exchange Centres Limited.

See also

• Amendment
• Rock Advertising Limited v MWB Business Exchange Centres Limited