Current Case: Confidentiality vs. Imminent Public Danger Competing Duties
S · State
Individual
http://proethica.org/ontology/case/136#Current_Case:_Confidentiality_vs._Imminent_Public_Danger_Competing_Duties
Properties
Instance of
ConfidentialityObligationvs.ImminentPublicDangerCompetingDutiesState
http://proethica.org/ontology/intermediate#ConfidentialityObligationvs.ImminentPublicDangerCompetingDutiesState
Active period
From discovery of imminent structural danger through resolution by mandatory disclosure
Affected parties
Attorney
Engineer A
Engineering profession
Property owner
Public authorities
Tenants
Confidence
0.93
Importance
high
Subject
Structural tension between engineer's confidentiality obligation to attorney-client and primary public safety obligation to warn tenants and public authorities
Terminated by
Board's determination that safety exception overrides confidentiality, requiring immediate disclosure to tenants and public authorities
Triggering event
Engineer A's discovery of imminent structural danger while holding confidential information in professional capacity for attorney-client
Urgency level
critical
Source Evidence
Source text
there may be facts and circumstances in which the ethical obligation of engineers in protecting the public health and safety conflict with the ethical obligation of engineers to maintain the right of confidentiality
Text references
Section II.1.c. makes a clear exception concerning the obligation of engineers not to reveal facts obtained in a professional capacity without the client's consent
in cases where the public health and safety is endangered, engineers not only have the right but also the ethical responsibility to reveal such facts to the proper persons
there may be facts and circumstances in which the ethical obligation of engineers in protecting the public health and safety conflict with the ethical obligation of engineers to maintain the right of confidentiality
TTL
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"in cases where the public health and safety is endangered, engineers not only have the right but also the ethical responsibility to reveal such facts to the proper persons",
"there may be facts and circumstances in which the ethical obligation of engineers in protecting the public health and safety conflict with the ethical obligation of engineers to maintain the right of confidentiality" ;
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Metadata
Extraction details
Discovered in case
136
Discovered in pass
1
Discovered in section
discussion
First discovered
2026-03-01T12:53:52.514196+00:00
First case
136
Generated
2026-03-01T12:53:52.514196+00:00
Attributed to
Case 136 Extraction
Generated
2026-03-01T13:14:37.516051
Generated by
ProEthica Case 136 Extraction