Attorney-Directed Confidentiality Non-Override — Imminent Structural Danger Current Case

@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#> . <http://proethica.org/ontology/case/136#Attorney-Directed_Confidentiality_Non-Override_—_Imminent_Structural_Danger_Current_Case> a proeth:Attorney-DirectedConfidentialityNon-OverrideofImminentStructuralSafetyDisclosure, owl:NamedIndividual ; rdfs:label "Attorney-Directed Confidentiality Non-Override — Imminent Structural Danger Current Case" ; proeth:appliedto "Engineer A's response to attorney's confidentiality instruction upon discovering imminent structural danger to tenants" ; proeth:balancingwith "Confidentiality Agreement Non-Supersession of Imminent Danger Disclosure Obligation", "Confidentiality Principle" ; proeth:conceptCategory "Principle" ; proeth:concreteexpression "The attorney's instruction to Engineer A to maintain confidentiality over the discovered structural defects does not legally or ethically bind Engineer A when those defects constitute an immediate and imminent threat to building tenants — Engineer A had an obligation to make absolutely certain that tenants and public authorities were immediately aware of the dangers." ; proeth:confidence "0.97" ; proeth:discoveredincase "136" ; proeth:discoveredinpass "2" ; proeth:discoveredinsection "discussion" ; proeth:firstdiscoveredat "2026-03-01T13:03:31.215609+00:00" ; proeth:firstdiscoveredincase "136" ; proeth:generatedattime "2026-03-01T13:03:31.215609+00:00" ; proeth:importance "high" ; proeth:interpretation "The attorney-client relationship through which Engineer A was retained does not extend the attorney's confidentiality authority to suppress an engineer's paramount public safety obligation; when structural defects are imminent and life-threatening, the attorney's instruction yields to the engineer's professional duty." ; proeth:invokedby "Board of Ethical Review" ; proeth:principleclass "Attorney-Directed Confidentiality Non-Override of Imminent Structural Safety Disclosure" ; proeth:sourcetext "Engineer A's client was the attorney and technically Engineer A had an obligation not to reveal facts, data or other information in a professional capacity without the prior consent of attorney. However, there were valid reasons why Engineer A should have revealed the information directly to the tenants and public authorities." ; proeth:tensionresolution "The attorney's confidentiality instruction is overridden by the engineer's paramount public safety obligation; the engineer must disclose to tenants and public authorities regardless of the attorney's instruction." ; proeth:textreferences "Engineer A's client was the attorney and technically Engineer A had an obligation not to reveal facts, data or other information in a professional capacity without the prior consent of attorney.", "Engineer A, having become aware of the imminent danger to the structure, had an obligation to make absolutely certain that the tenants and public authorities were made immediately aware of the dangers that existed.", "However, there were valid reasons why Engineer A should have revealed the information directly to the tenants and public authorities." ; proeth:wasattributedto "Case 136 Extraction" ; prov:generatedAtTime "2026-03-01T13:14:37.526252"^^xsd:dateTime ; prov:wasGeneratedBy "ProEthica Case 136 Extraction" .