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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 and guarantee them an annuity of tedious work. But as of 2018 it is no longer, as it ought to be, a vacuous piece of legal [[flannel]] — thanks to what we impolitely consider to be an equally vacuous piece of ''legal reasoning'' by no less an eminence than Lord Sumption of the Supreme Court in {{Casenote|Rock Advertising Limited|MWB Business Exchange Centres Limited}} if one ''says'' one cannot amend a contract except in writing then one will be held to that — even if on the clear evidence the parties to the contract later agreed otherwise. This is rather like sober me being forced to act on promises that drunk me made a handsome ''[[rechtsanwältin]]'' during a heated argument about theoretical physics in a nasty bar in Hammersmith after too many cocktails at the end of year do, when not even that elegant German attorney wants me to go through with it.<ref>I know this sounds oddly, ''verisimilitudinally'' specific, but it actually isn’t. I really did just make it up.</ref>