Engineer A Faithful Agent Obligation Toward Client B Complaint Context
O · Obligation
Individual
http://proethica.org/ontology/case/147#Engineer_A_Faithful_Agent_Obligation_Toward_Client_B_Complaint_Context
Properties
Instance of
Case context
The Board acknowledged Engineer A's faithful agent obligation to Client B as a relevant ethical duty but held that it did not override the allegation-adjudication distinction in the disclosure analysis.
Compliance status
met
Confidence
0.9
Importance
high
Obligated party
Engineer A
Obligation statement
Engineer A's faithful agent and trustee obligation to Client B required transparency about material professional circumstances, but this obligation did not automatically compel disclosure of the pending ethics complaint because the complaint was an unproven allegation rather than an adjudicated finding.
Temporal scope
Throughout the engagement with Client B
Relationships
derivedFromPrinciple
Faithful Agent Obligation Invoked in Complaint Non-Disclosure Analysis
Source Evidence
Source text
The Board is of the opinion that while an engineer clearly has an ethical obligation to act as a faithful agent and trustee for the benefit of a client, avoid deceptive acts, be objective and truthful, avoid conflicts, etc., such obligations would not compel an engineer to automatically disclose that a complaint had been filed against the engineer with the state engineering licensure board.
Text references
The Board is of the opinion that while an engineer clearly has an ethical obligation to act as a faithful agent and trustee for the benefit of a client, avoid deceptive acts, be objective and truthful, avoid conflicts, etc., such obligations would not compel an engineer to automatically disclose that a complaint had been filed against the engineer with the state engineering licensure board.
These include the obligations to be truthful in public statements, act as a faithful agent and trustee in dealings with clients, not falsify or misrepresent their professional qualifications, and avoid the use of statements containing a material misrepresentation of fact.
TTL
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case147:Engineer_A_Faithful_Agent_Obligation_Toward_Client_B_Complaint_Context a proeth:FaithfulAgentObligation,
owl:NamedIndividual ;
rdfs:label "Engineer A Faithful Agent Obligation Toward Client B Complaint Context" ;
proeth-core:competesWith case147:Engineer_A_Allegation_Non-Equivalence_Disclosure_Calibration_Client_B ;
proeth-core:defeasibleUnder case147:Allegation_vs._Adjudication_Disclosure_Threshold_in_Engineer_As_Complaint ;
proeth:casecontext "The Board acknowledged Engineer A's faithful agent obligation to Client B as a relevant ethical duty but held that it did not override the allegation-adjudication distinction in the disclosure analysis." ;
proeth:compliancestatus "met" ;
proeth:conceptCategory "Obligation" ;
proeth:confidence "0.9" ;
proeth:derivedFromPrinciple case147:Faithful_Agent_Obligation_Invoked_in_Complaint_Non-Disclosure_Analysis ;
proeth:discoveredincase "147" ;
proeth:discoveredinpass "2" ;
proeth:discoveredinsection "discussion" ;
proeth:firstdiscoveredat "2026-03-01T07:47:26.067073+00:00" ;
proeth:firstdiscoveredincase "147" ;
proeth:generatedattime "2026-03-01T07:47:26.067073+00:00" ;
proeth:importance "high" ;
proeth:obligatedparty "Engineer A" ;
proeth:obligationclass "Faithful Agent Obligation" ;
proeth:obligationstatement "Engineer A's faithful agent and trustee obligation to Client B required transparency about material professional circumstances, but this obligation did not automatically compel disclosure of the pending ethics complaint because the complaint was an unproven allegation rather than an adjudicated finding." ;
proeth:sourcetext "The Board is of the opinion that while an engineer clearly has an ethical obligation to act as a faithful agent and trustee for the benefit of a client, avoid deceptive acts, be objective and truthful, avoid conflicts, etc., such obligations would not compel an engineer to automatically disclose that a complaint had been filed against the engineer with the state engineering licensure board." ;
proeth:temporalscope "Throughout the engagement with Client B" ;
proeth:textreferences "The Board is of the opinion that while an engineer clearly has an ethical obligation to act as a faithful agent and trustee for the benefit of a client, avoid deceptive acts, be objective and truthful, avoid conflicts, etc., such obligations would not compel an engineer to automatically disclose that a complaint had been filed against the engineer with the state engineering licensure board.",
"These include the obligations to be truthful in public statements, act as a faithful agent and trustee in dealings with clients, not falsify or misrepresent their professional qualifications, and avoid the use of statements containing a material misrepresentation of fact." ;
proeth:wasattributedto "Case 147 Extraction" ;
prov:generatedAtTime "2026-03-01T07:56:55.818031"^^xsd:dateTime ;
prov:wasGeneratedBy "ProEthica Case 147 Extraction" .
Metadata
Extraction details
Discovered in case
147
Discovered in pass
2
Discovered in section
discussion
First discovered
2026-03-01T07:47:26.067073+00:00
First case
147
Generated
2026-03-01T07:47:26.067073+00:00
Attributed to
Case 147 Extraction
Generated
2026-03-01T07:56:55.818031
Generated by
ProEthica Case 147 Extraction