Honesty and Integrity Obligation of Forensic Engineering Experts
P · Principle
Individual
http://proethica.org/ontology/case/107#Honesty_and_Integrity_Obligation_of_Forensic_Engineering_Experts
Properties
Instance of
Applied to
Forensic engineering expert services in civil litigation
Pile foundation adequacy report
Test pile driving report
Balancing with
Attorney-client relationship obligations
Client loyalty
Concrete expression
The case establishes that professional engineers serving as forensic experts in civil litigation bear an ethical responsibility to perform their services with honesty and integrity and to be truthful and honest in their professional reports — a responsibility that applies equally to Engineer B's selective data use and Engineer A's obligation to correct discovered inaccuracies
Confidence
0.95
Importance
high
Interpretation
In the forensic engineering context, honesty requires both completeness in initial reporting and prompt correction of discovered inaccuracies — the obligation is not discharged by submission of a report but continues as long as the report remains operative
Invoked by
Engineer A Forensic Report Error Discovering Engineer
Engineer B Adversarial Litigation Testing Supervisor
Tension resolution
Honesty obligation supersedes client loyalty and adversarial context pressures — the engineer's duty to truthful reporting is not subordinated by the retaining party's litigation interests
Source Evidence
Source text
These professional engineers have an ethical responsibility to perform these services with honesty and integrity and to be truthful and honest in their professional reports.
Text references
Engineer B appears to have assumed a responsibility to defend the client municipality by the selective use of data. This was an egregious denial of the duties and responsibilities of a professional engineer in any setting, whether legal, quasilegal, or nonlegal
These professional engineers have an ethical responsibility to perform these services with honesty and integrity and to be truthful and honest in their professional reports.
TTL
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owl:NamedIndividual ;
rdfs:label "Honesty and Integrity Obligation of Forensic Engineering Experts" ;
proeth:appliedto "Forensic engineering expert services in civil litigation",
"Pile foundation adequacy report",
"Test pile driving report" ;
proeth:balancingwith "Attorney-client relationship obligations",
"Client loyalty" ;
proeth:conceptCategory "Principle" ;
proeth:concreteexpression "The case establishes that professional engineers serving as forensic experts in civil litigation bear an ethical responsibility to perform their services with honesty and integrity and to be truthful and honest in their professional reports — a responsibility that applies equally to Engineer B's selective data use and Engineer A's obligation to correct discovered inaccuracies" ;
proeth:confidence "0.95" ;
proeth:discoveredincase "107" ;
proeth:discoveredinpass "2" ;
proeth:discoveredinsection "discussion" ;
proeth:firstdiscoveredat "2026-02-27T23:39:17.038993+00:00" ;
proeth:firstdiscoveredincase "107" ;
proeth:generatedattime "2026-02-27T23:39:17.038993+00:00" ;
proeth:importance "high" ;
proeth:interpretation "In the forensic engineering context, honesty requires both completeness in initial reporting and prompt correction of discovered inaccuracies — the obligation is not discharged by submission of a report but continues as long as the report remains operative" ;
proeth:invokedby "Engineer A Forensic Report Error Discovering Engineer",
"Engineer B Adversarial Litigation Testing Supervisor" ;
proeth:principleclass "Honesty" ;
proeth:sourcetext "These professional engineers have an ethical responsibility to perform these services with honesty and integrity and to be truthful and honest in their professional reports." ;
proeth:tensionresolution "Honesty obligation supersedes client loyalty and adversarial context pressures — the engineer's duty to truthful reporting is not subordinated by the retaining party's litigation interests" ;
proeth:textreferences "Engineer B appears to have assumed a responsibility to defend the client municipality by the selective use of data. This was an egregious denial of the duties and responsibilities of a professional engineer in any setting, whether legal, quasilegal, or nonlegal",
"These professional engineers have an ethical responsibility to perform these services with honesty and integrity and to be truthful and honest in their professional reports." ;
proeth:wasattributedto "Case 107 Extraction" ;
prov:generatedAtTime "2026-02-27T23:51:16.289011"^^xsd:dateTime ;
prov:wasGeneratedBy "ProEthica Case 107 Extraction" .
Metadata
Extraction details
Discovered in case
107
Discovered in pass
2
Discovered in section
discussion
First discovered
2026-02-27T23:39:17.038993+00:00
First case
107
Generated
2026-02-27T23:39:17.038993+00:00
Attributed to
Case 107 Extraction
Generated
2026-02-27T23:51:16.289011
Generated by
ProEthica Case 107 Extraction