Owner Client Loyalty Limits Engineer B
P · Principle
Individual
http://proethica.org/ontology/case/15#Owner_Client_Loyalty_Limits_Engineer_B
Definition
Engineer B's duty of loyalty to the Owner did not extend to complying with the instruction to conduct a covert review, because that instruction required Engineer B to violate the professional obligation to notify Engineer A.
Properties
Instance of
Applied to
Owner's instruction to conduct review without notifying Engineer A
Balancing with
Professional Accountability
Transparency
Concrete expression
Engineer B's duty of loyalty to the Owner did not extend to complying with the instruction to conduct a covert review, because that instruction required Engineer B to violate the professional obligation to notify Engineer A.
Confidence
0.88
Interpretation
Loyalty to a client is bounded by independent professional obligations. An engineer may follow client instructions about the manner of professional services but not instructions that require violating duties owed to third parties.
Tension resolution
Engineer B correctly declined to follow the Owner's instruction until the Owner consented to notification, treating the notification obligation as a non-negotiable professional duty rather than a matter of client preference.
Match Confidence
0.95
Match Reasoning
Individual typed as existing ontology class 'Loyalty'
Matched Ontology Label
Loyalty
Matches Existing
true
Synthesis Literal
appliedTo
balancingWith
concreteExpression
confidence
interpretation
principleClass
tensionResolution
textReferences
Relationships
invokedBy
Agent Engineer B
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
When Owner reluctantly consents to notifying Engineer A
Source text
Owner instructs Engineer B to conduct the peer review without letting Engineer A know. Engineer B objects to conducting the peer review without advising Engineer A.
TTL
@prefix case15: <http://proethica.org/ontology/case/15#> .
@prefix owl: <http://www.w3.org/2002/07/owl#> .
@prefix proeth: <http://proethica.org/ontology/intermediate#> .
@prefix proeth-core: <http://proethica.org/ontology/core#> .
@prefix proeth-prov: <http://proethica.org/provenance#> .
@prefix prov: <http://www.w3.org/ns/prov#> .
@prefix rdfs: <http://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#> .
@prefix skos: <http://www.w3.org/2004/02/skos/core#> .
@prefix xsd: <http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#> .
case15:Owner_Client_Loyalty_Limits_Engineer_B a proeth:Loyalty,
owl:NamedIndividual ;
rdfs:label "Owner Client Loyalty Limits Engineer B" ;
proeth-core:invokedBy case15:Agent_Engineer_B ;
proeth:appliedTo "Owner's instruction to conduct review without notifying Engineer A" ;
proeth:balancingWith "Professional Accountability",
"Transparency" ;
proeth:conceptCategory "Principle" ;
proeth:concreteExpression "Engineer B's duty of loyalty to the Owner did not extend to complying with the instruction to conduct a covert review, because that instruction required Engineer B to violate the professional obligation to notify Engineer A." ;
proeth:confidence "0.88" ;
proeth:interpretation "Loyalty to a client is bounded by independent professional obligations. An engineer may follow client instructions about the manner of professional services but not instructions that require violating duties owed to third parties." ;
proeth:invokedBy "Engineer B Peer Reviewer" ;
proeth:principleClass "Loyalty" ;
proeth:tensionResolution "Engineer B correctly declined to follow the Owner's instruction until the Owner consented to notification, treating the notification obligation as a non-negotiable professional duty rather than a matter of client preference." ;
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",
"When Owner reluctantly consents to notifying Engineer A" ;
proeth-prov:discoveredInCase 15 ;
proeth-prov:discoveredInPass 2 ;
proeth-prov:discoveredInSection "facts" ;
proeth-prov:firstDiscoveredAt "2026-06-02T19:55:30.891672+00:00"^^xsd:dateTime ;
proeth-prov:firstDiscoveredInCase 15 ;
proeth-prov:matchConfidence 0.95 ;
proeth-prov:matchReasoning "Individual typed as existing ontology class 'Loyalty'" ;
proeth-prov:matchedOntologyClass <http://proethica.org/ontology/principles#Loyalty> ;
proeth-prov:matchedOntologyLabel "Loyalty" ;
proeth-prov:matchesExisting true ;
proeth-prov:sourceText "Owner instructs Engineer B to conduct the peer review without letting Engineer A know. Engineer B objects to conducting the peer review without advising Engineer A." ;
proeth-prov:synthesisLiteral "appliedTo",
"balancingWith",
"concreteExpression",
"confidence",
"interpretation",
"principleClass",
"tensionResolution",
"textReferences" ;
rdfs:comment "Engineer B's duty of loyalty to the Owner did not extend to complying with the instruction to conduct a covert review, because that instruction required Engineer B to violate the professional obligation to notify Engineer A." ;
skos:definition "Engineer B's duty of loyalty to the Owner did not extend to complying with the instruction to conduct a covert review, because that instruction required Engineer B to violate the professional obligation to notify Engineer A." ;
prov:generatedAtTime "2026-06-02T19:55:30.891672+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
2026-06-02T19:55:30.891672+00:00
First case
15
Generated
2026-06-02T19:55:30.891672+00:00
Attributed to
['Case 15 Extraction', 'claude-sonnet-4-6']
Generated by
ProEthica Case 15 Extraction