Engineer Non-Advocate Status Violated By Engineer A Compliance With Litigation Confidentiality
P · Principle
Individual
http://proethica.org/ontology/case/136#Engineer_Non-Advocate_Status_Violated_By_Engineer_A_Compliance_With_Litigation_Confidentiality
Properties
Instance of
EngineerNon-AdvocateStatusinAdversarialProceedings
http://proethica.org/ontology/intermediate#EngineerNon-AdvocateStatusinAdversarialProceedings
Applied to
Attorney instruction to suppress structural defect findings
Expert testimony engagement in civil litigation
Balancing with
Confidentiality Principle
Loyalty
Concrete expression
Engineer A is retained to give expert testimony 'in support of the owner' and then instructed to suppress adverse safety findings; compliance with this instruction converts Engineer A into a partisan advocate, violating the principle that engineers are not advocates in adversarial proceedings
Confidence
0.95
Importance
high
Interpretation
The attorney's instruction to suppress safety findings attempts to make Engineer A function as a partisan advocate for the owner's litigation position; the engineer's non-advocate status requires refusal and objective disclosure of all material technical findings
Invoked by
Engineer A Current Case Attorney-Directed Confidentiality-Bound Safety-Discovering Engineer
Tension resolution
Non-advocate status requires Engineer A to provide complete, objective findings regardless of their adverse effect on the owner's litigation position
Source Evidence
Source text
Owner's attorney hires Engineer A to inspect the building and give expert testimony in support of the owner.
Text references
Engineer A complys with the request of the attorney.
Engineer A is told he must maintain this information as confidential as it is part of a lawsuit.
Owner's attorney hires Engineer A to inspect the building and give expert testimony in support of the owner.
TTL
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case136:Engineer_Non-Advocate_Status_Violated_By_Engineer_A_Compliance_With_Litigation_Confidentiality a proeth:EngineerNon-AdvocateStatusinAdversarialProceedings,
owl:NamedIndividual ;
rdfs:label "Engineer Non-Advocate Status Violated By Engineer A Compliance With Litigation Confidentiality" ;
proeth:appliedto "Attorney instruction to suppress structural defect findings",
"Expert testimony engagement in civil litigation" ;
proeth:balancingwith "Confidentiality Principle",
"Loyalty" ;
proeth:conceptCategory "Principle" ;
proeth:concreteexpression "Engineer A is retained to give expert testimony 'in support of the owner' and then instructed to suppress adverse safety findings; compliance with this instruction converts Engineer A into a partisan advocate, violating the principle that engineers are not advocates in adversarial proceedings" ;
proeth:confidence "0.95" ;
proeth:discoveredincase "136" ;
proeth:discoveredinpass "2" ;
proeth:discoveredinsection "facts" ;
proeth:firstdiscoveredat "2026-03-01T12:56:48.576232+00:00" ;
proeth:firstdiscoveredincase "136" ;
proeth:generatedattime "2026-03-01T12:56:48.576232+00:00" ;
proeth:importance "high" ;
proeth:interpretation "The attorney's instruction to suppress safety findings attempts to make Engineer A function as a partisan advocate for the owner's litigation position; the engineer's non-advocate status requires refusal and objective disclosure of all material technical findings" ;
proeth:invokedby "Engineer A Current Case Attorney-Directed Confidentiality-Bound Safety-Discovering Engineer" ;
proeth:principleclass "Engineer Non-Advocate Status in Adversarial Proceedings" ;
proeth:sourcetext "Owner's attorney hires Engineer A to inspect the building and give expert testimony in support of the owner." ;
proeth:tensionresolution "Non-advocate status requires Engineer A to provide complete, objective findings regardless of their adverse effect on the owner's litigation position" ;
proeth:textreferences "Engineer A complys with the request of the attorney.",
"Engineer A is told he must maintain this information as confidential as it is part of a lawsuit.",
"Owner's attorney hires Engineer A to inspect the building and give expert testimony in support of the owner." ;
proeth:wasattributedto "Case 136 Extraction" ;
prov:generatedAtTime "2026-03-01T13:14:37.519583"^^xsd:dateTime ;
prov:wasGeneratedBy "ProEthica Case 136 Extraction" .
Metadata
Extraction details
Discovered in case
136
Discovered in pass
2
Discovered in section
facts
First discovered
2026-03-01T12:56:48.576232+00:00
First case
136
Generated
2026-03-01T12:56:48.576232+00:00
Attributed to
Case 136 Extraction
Generated
2026-03-01T13:14:37.519583
Generated by
ProEthica Case 136 Extraction