BER 90-5 Forensic Engineer Confidentiality Non-Override Imminent Structural Safety
O · Obligation
Individual
http://proethica.org/ontology/case/149#BER_90-5_Forensic_Engineer_Confidentiality_Non-Override_Imminent_Structural_Safety
Properties
Instance of
ConfidentialityNon-OverrideofImminentStructuralSafetyObligation
http://proethica.org/ontology/intermediate#ConfidentialityNon-OverrideofImminentStructuralSafetyObligation
Case context
Forensic engineer discovered structural defects posing immediate threat; attorney directed confidentiality; engineer complied rather than notifying public authorities.
Compliance status
unmet
Confidence
0.92
Importance
high
Obligated party
BER 90-5 Forensic Engineer
Obligation statement
The BER 90-5 forensic engineer was obligated to recognize that the confidentiality instruction from the attorney did not override the paramount duty to protect building tenants from immediate structural danger, and to notify appropriate authorities accordingly.
Temporal scope
Upon discovering structural defects constituting immediate threat to tenant safety and receiving attorney's confidentiality instruction
Relationships
Source Evidence
Source text
In deciding it was unethical for the engineer to conceal his knowledge of the safety-related defect, the Board discounted the attorney's statement that the engineer was legally bound to maintain confidentiality, noting that any such duty was superseded by the immediate and imminent danger to the building's tenants.
Text references
In deciding it was unethical for the engineer to conceal his knowledge of the safety-related defect, the Board discounted the attorney's statement that the engineer was legally bound to maintain confidentiality, noting that any such duty was superseded by the immediate and imminent danger to the building's tenants.
TTL
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case149:BER_90-5_Forensic_Engineer_Confidentiality_Non-Override_Imminent_Structural_Safety a proeth:ConfidentialityNon-OverrideofImminentStructuralSafetyObligation,
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proeth-core:competesWith case149:BER_90-5_Forensic_Engineer_Attorney-Directed_Confidentiality_Non-Override_Structural_Safety ;
proeth-core:defeasibleUnder case149:BER_90-5_Attorney-Directed_Concealment_of_Imminent_Structural_Danger ;
proeth:casecontext "Forensic engineer discovered structural defects posing immediate threat; attorney directed confidentiality; engineer complied rather than notifying public authorities." ;
proeth:compliancestatus "unmet" ;
proeth:conceptCategory "Obligation" ;
proeth:confidence "0.92" ;
proeth:derivedFromPrinciple case149:Attorney-Directed_Confidentiality_Non-Override_Invoked_in_BER_90-5,
case149:Confidentiality_Non-Applicability_to_Public_Danger_Invoked_Across_All_Three_Cases ;
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proeth:discoveredinpass "2" ;
proeth:discoveredinsection "discussion" ;
proeth:firstdiscoveredat "2026-03-01T12:26:51.749955+00:00" ;
proeth:firstdiscoveredincase "149" ;
proeth:generatedattime "2026-03-01T12:26:51.749955+00:00" ;
proeth:importance "high" ;
proeth:obligatedparty "BER 90-5 Forensic Engineer" ;
proeth:obligationclass "Confidentiality Non-Override of Imminent Structural Safety Obligation" ;
proeth:obligationstatement "The BER 90-5 forensic engineer was obligated to recognize that the confidentiality instruction from the attorney did not override the paramount duty to protect building tenants from immediate structural danger, and to notify appropriate authorities accordingly." ;
proeth:sourcetext "In deciding it was unethical for the engineer to conceal his knowledge of the safety-related defect, the Board discounted the attorney's statement that the engineer was legally bound to maintain confidentiality, noting that any such duty was superseded by the immediate and imminent danger to the building's tenants." ;
proeth:temporalscope "Upon discovering structural defects constituting immediate threat to tenant safety and receiving attorney's confidentiality instruction" ;
proeth:textreferences "In deciding it was unethical for the engineer to conceal his knowledge of the safety-related defect, the Board discounted the attorney's statement that the engineer was legally bound to maintain confidentiality, noting that any such duty was superseded by the immediate and imminent danger to the building's tenants." ;
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Metadata
Extraction details
Discovered in case
149
Discovered in pass
2
Discovered in section
discussion
First discovered
2026-03-01T12:26:51.749955+00:00
First case
149
Generated
2026-03-01T12:26:51.749955+00:00
Attributed to
Case 149 Extraction
Generated
2026-03-01T12:35:30.896960
Generated by
ProEthica Case 149 Extraction