p0275 In an action by a former client against attorneys alleging that in engineering the settlement of the client's claim the attorneys actually had been acting as agents of the client's adversaries, the attorneys, who were not parties to the settlement agreement, are not entitled to rely on an arbitration clause in the settlement agreement on the ground that the client's adversary was a party to it and they were alleged to be agents of that party while denying that they were agents of the client's adversary.CitationCITY OF HOPE v CAVE (Adversary's Agent) 102 CA4 1356 [See: Rosenthal v Great Western 14 C4 394; Neverkovec v Fredericks 74 CA4 337, T/AT 9/99]
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