Side letter: Difference between revisions

There is some kind of existential [[paradox]] here. You know how the JC loves a [[paradox]]. In the sense that they are cosmetic artifacts, designed to give the appearance of one thing while delivering another, the [[JC]] denounces side letters as unbecoming things, with which no sensible [[legal eagle]] should have truck. But being a pragmatic fellow, he also recognises there will be times where a [[legal eagle]]’s [[ditch tolerance]] is not so great that she will go to the wall to ''avoid'' such truck. Look, no-one’s ''proud'' of a side letter — you don’t put an unusual facility with them on your CV, or write learned tomes about them,<ref>''Büchstein on Side Letters,'' 4th Ed. I can see it now.</ref> but sometimes you have to do what you have to do, you know? Life’s complicated.

There are ''some'' sensible applications for approaches that look like side letters — auxiliary agreements, call them — but they are far fewer and further between than the number of side letters one encounters in real-life.