Standards Committee Role Disclosure Invoked By Engineer A

@prefix case129: <http://proethica.org/ontology/case/129#> . @prefix owl: <http://www.w3.org/2002/07/owl#> . @prefix proeth: <http://proethica.org/ontology/intermediate#> . @prefix prov: <http://www.w3.org/ns/prov#> . @prefix rdfs: <http://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#> . @prefix xsd: <http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#> . case129:Standards_Committee_Role_Disclosure_Invoked_By_Engineer_A a proeth:StandardsCommitteeRoleDisclosureinExpertWitnessEngagements, owl:NamedIndividual ; rdfs:label "Standards Committee Role Disclosure Invoked By Engineer A" ; proeth:appliedto "Expert witness engagement in personal injury litigation involving pressure vessel explosion", "Professional relationship between Engineer A (committee chair) and Engineer B (subcommittee member)" ; proeth:balancingwith "Faithful Agent Obligation Within Ethical Limits", "Loyalty to retaining client" ; proeth:conceptCategory "Principle" ; proeth:concreteexpression "Engineer A, as chair of the boiler code standards and safety committee, is obligated to disclose to Attorney X both Engineer A's own committee chairmanship role and the fact that opposing expert Engineer B serves as a member of a technical subcommittee within that same committee, before proceeding with the forensic expert witness engagement" ; proeth:confidence "0.97" ; proeth:discoveredincase "129" ; proeth:discoveredinpass "2" ; proeth:discoveredinsection "facts" ; proeth:firstdiscoveredat "2026-02-27T19:37:01.979262+00:00" ; proeth:firstdiscoveredincase "129" ; proeth:generatedattime "2026-02-27T19:37:01.979262+00:00" ; proeth:importance "high" ; proeth:interpretation "In this context, the principle requires Engineer A to affirmatively surface the supervisory committee relationship with the opposing expert to retaining counsel, so that Attorney X can assess whether the relationship creates a conflict, an appearance of impropriety, or a strategic consideration that affects the engagement" ; proeth:invokedby "Engineer A Standards Committee Chair Forensic Expert" ; proeth:principleclass "Standards Committee Role Disclosure in Expert Witness Engagements" ; proeth:sourcetext "Engineer A learns that the forensic engineering expert for the plaintiff, Engineer B, is a member of one of the technical subcommittees within the boiler code standards and safety committee that Engineer A chairs" ; proeth:tensionresolution "Disclosure to Attorney X is the mechanism that allows the conflict to be assessed and managed without requiring automatic recusal — the principle does not prohibit the engagement but requires full transparency about the professional relationship" ; proeth:textreferences "Engineer A learns that the forensic engineering expert for the plaintiff, Engineer B, is a member of one of the technical subcommittees within the boiler code standards and safety committee that Engineer A chairs", "Engineer A, who chairs a boiler code standards and safety committee within an engineering society, has been requested by Attorney X, a defense attorney, to conduct an investigation and potentially serve as an expert witness on behalf of a boiler manufacturer in connection with a personal injury case involving a pressure vessel explosion" ; proeth:wasattributedto "Case 129 Extraction" ; prov:generatedAtTime "2026-02-27T19:54:29.975532"^^xsd:dateTime ; prov:wasGeneratedBy "ProEthica Case 129 Extraction" .