Engineer B Covert Review Refusal
O · Obligation
Individual
http://proethica.org/ontology/case/15#Engineer_B_Covert_Review_Refusal
Definition
Engineer B was obligated to refuse the Owner's instruction to conduct a covert peer review of Engineer A's work without Engineer A's knowledge, because such concealment would violate professional transparency and collegial duties.
Properties
Instance of
CovertReviewRefusalObligation
http://proethica.org/ontology/intermediate#CovertReviewRefusalObligation
Case context
Owner instructed Engineer B to review Engineer A's second tower plans without informing Engineer A, in the context of a two-tower development where significant errors had been found in the first tower.
Compliance status
met
Confidence
0.9
Obligation statement
Engineer B was obligated to refuse the Owner's instruction to conduct a covert peer review of Engineer A's work without Engineer A's knowledge, because such concealment would violate professional transparency and collegial duties.
Temporal scope
Upon receipt of the Owner's instruction to conduct a covert review
Match Confidence
0.75
Match Reasoning
Via class 'Covert Review Refusal Obligation': This obligation is a specific instantiation of the broader Ethical Obligation class, operationalizing the duty to refuse client instructions that violate professional transparency and collegial norms. The existing Ethical Obligation class covers duties arising from professional codes and moral reasoning, which encompasses this refusal duty. Medium confidence because the existing class is more general.
Matched Ontology Label
Ethical Obligation
Matches Existing
true
Synthesis Literal
caseContext
complianceStatus
confidence
obligationClass
obligationStatement
temporalScope
textReferences
Relationships
competesWith
Engineer B Client Instruction Limits
obligatedParty
Agent Engineer B
derivedFromPrinciple
Engineer B Professional Integrity Insistence
Source Evidence
Text references
Engineer B objects to conducting the peer review without advising Engineer A.
Owner instructs Engineer B to conduct the peer review without letting Engineer A know.
Source text
Owner instructs Engineer B to conduct the peer review without letting Engineer A know.
TTL
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case15:Engineer_B_Covert_Review_Refusal a proeth:CovertReviewRefusalObligation,
owl:NamedIndividual ;
rdfs:label "Engineer B Covert Review Refusal" ;
proeth-core:competesWith case15:Engineer_B_Client_Instruction_Limits ;
proeth-core:obligatedParty case15:Agent_Engineer_B ;
proeth:caseContext "Owner instructed Engineer B to review Engineer A's second tower plans without informing Engineer A, in the context of a two-tower development where significant errors had been found in the first tower." ;
proeth:complianceStatus "met" ;
proeth:conceptCategory "Obligation" ;
proeth:confidence "0.9" ;
proeth:derivedFromPrinciple case15:Engineer_B_Professional_Integrity_Insistence ;
proeth:obligatedParty "Engineer B" ;
proeth:obligationClass "Covert Review Refusal Obligation" ;
proeth:obligationStatement "Engineer B was obligated to refuse the Owner's instruction to conduct a covert peer review of Engineer A's work without Engineer A's knowledge, because such concealment would violate professional transparency and collegial duties." ;
proeth:temporalScope "Upon receipt of the Owner's instruction to conduct a covert review" ;
proeth:textReferences "Engineer B objects to conducting the peer review without advising Engineer A.",
"Owner instructs Engineer B to conduct the peer review without letting Engineer A know." ;
proeth-prov:discoveredInCase 15 ;
proeth-prov:discoveredInPass 2 ;
proeth-prov:discoveredInSection "facts" ;
proeth-prov:firstDiscoveredAt "2026-06-02T19:56:24.847658+00:00"^^xsd:dateTime ;
proeth-prov:firstDiscoveredInCase 15 ;
proeth-prov:matchConfidence 0.75 ;
proeth-prov:matchReasoning "Via class 'Covert Review Refusal Obligation': This obligation is a specific instantiation of the broader Ethical Obligation class, operationalizing the duty to refuse client instructions that violate professional transparency and collegial norms. The existing Ethical Obligation class covers duties arising from professional codes and moral reasoning, which encompasses this refusal duty. Medium confidence because the existing class is more general." ;
proeth-prov:matchedOntologyClass proeth:EthicalObligation ;
proeth-prov:matchedOntologyLabel "Ethical Obligation" ;
proeth-prov:matchesExisting true ;
proeth-prov:sourceText "Owner instructs Engineer B to conduct the peer review without letting Engineer A know." ;
proeth-prov:synthesisLiteral "caseContext",
"complianceStatus",
"confidence",
"obligationClass",
"obligationStatement",
"temporalScope",
"textReferences" ;
rdfs:comment "Engineer B was obligated to refuse the Owner's instruction to conduct a covert peer review of Engineer A's work without Engineer A's knowledge, because such concealment would violate professional transparency and collegial duties." ;
skos:definition "Engineer B was obligated to refuse the Owner's instruction to conduct a covert peer review of Engineer A's work without Engineer A's knowledge, because such concealment would violate professional transparency and collegial duties." ;
prov:generatedAtTime "2026-06-02T19:56:24.847658+00:00"^^xsd:dateTime ;
prov:wasAttributedTo "Case 15 Extraction",
"claude-sonnet-4-6" ;
prov:wasGeneratedBy "ProEthica Case 15 Extraction" .
Metadata
Extraction details
Discovered in case
15
Discovered in pass
2
Discovered in section
facts
First discovered
2026-06-02T19:56:24.847658+00:00
First case
15
Generated
2026-06-02T19:56:24.847658+00:00
Attributed to
['Case 15 Extraction', 'claude-sonnet-4-6']
Generated by
ProEthica Case 15 Extraction