Owner Client Loyalty Limits Notification

P · Principle Individual
http://proethica.org/ontology/case/15#Owner_Client_Loyalty_Limits_Notification
Definition

The owner's instruction to Engineer B to conduct the peer review without notifying Engineer A exceeded the permissible scope of client direction, because complying would have required Engineer B to violate Professional Obligation III.7.a.

Properties
Instance of
ClientLoyaltyLimits
http://proethica.org/ontology/intermediate#ClientLoyaltyLimits
Applied to
Owner's instruction to Engineer B regarding confidentiality of review from Engineer A
Balancing with
Collegial Notification Principle
Concrete expression
The owner's instruction to Engineer B to conduct the peer review without notifying Engineer A exceeded the permissible scope of client direction, because complying would have required Engineer B to violate Professional Obligation III.7.a.
Confidence
0.87
Interpretation
Client authority over the scope and conditions of a peer review does not extend to directing the reviewer to violate professional obligations governing collegial notification.
Tension resolution
Engineer B's professional obligation to notify Engineer A prevailed over the owner's instruction, and the owner ultimately complied by agreeing to notify Engineer A.
Match Confidence
0.0
Matches Existing
false
Synthesis Literal
appliedTo
balancingWith
concreteExpression
confidence
interpretation
principleClass
tensionResolution
textReferences
Relationships
invokedBy Agent Owner
Source Evidence
Text references
Engineer B was completely correct in declining an assignment to conduct a peer review of Engineer A's work subject to an instruction not to disclose the peer review to Engineer A.
Owner reluctantly agreed to advise Engineer A of the planned peer review.

Source text
Owner reluctantly agreed to advise Engineer A of the planned peer review.
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_Notification a proeth:ClientLoyaltyLimits, owl:NamedIndividual ; rdfs:label "Owner Client Loyalty Limits Notification" ; proeth-core:invokedBy case15:Agent_Owner ; proeth:appliedTo "Owner's instruction to Engineer B regarding confidentiality of review from Engineer A" ; proeth:balancingWith "Collegial Notification Principle" ; proeth:conceptCategory "Principle" ; proeth:concreteExpression "The owner's instruction to Engineer B to conduct the peer review without notifying Engineer A exceeded the permissible scope of client direction, because complying would have required Engineer B to violate Professional Obligation III.7.a." ; proeth:confidence "0.87" ; proeth:interpretation "Client authority over the scope and conditions of a peer review does not extend to directing the reviewer to violate professional obligations governing collegial notification." ; proeth:invokedBy "Owner Project Owner" ; proeth:principleClass "Client Loyalty Limits" ; proeth:tensionResolution "Engineer B's professional obligation to notify Engineer A prevailed over the owner's instruction, and the owner ultimately complied by agreeing to notify Engineer A." ; proeth:textReferences "Engineer B was completely correct in declining an assignment to conduct a peer review of Engineer A's work subject to an instruction not to disclose the peer review to Engineer A.", "Owner reluctantly agreed to advise Engineer A of the planned peer review." ; proeth-prov:discoveredInCase 15 ; proeth-prov:discoveredInPass 2 ; proeth-prov:discoveredInSection "discussion" ; proeth-prov:firstDiscoveredAt "2026-06-02T19:58:41.183712+00:00"^^xsd:dateTime ; proeth-prov:firstDiscoveredInCase 15 ; proeth-prov:matchConfidence 0.0 ; proeth-prov:matchesExisting false ; proeth-prov:sourceText "Owner reluctantly agreed to advise Engineer A of the planned peer review." ; proeth-prov:synthesisLiteral "appliedTo", "balancingWith", "concreteExpression", "confidence", "interpretation", "principleClass", "tensionResolution", "textReferences" ; rdfs:comment "The owner's instruction to Engineer B to conduct the peer review without notifying Engineer A exceeded the permissible scope of client direction, because complying would have required Engineer B to violate Professional Obligation III.7.a." ; skos:definition "The owner's instruction to Engineer B to conduct the peer review without notifying Engineer A exceeded the permissible scope of client direction, because complying would have required Engineer B to violate Professional Obligation III.7.a." ; prov:generatedAtTime "2026-06-02T19:58:41.183712+00:00"^^xsd:dateTime ; prov:wasAttributedTo "Case 15 Extraction", "claude-sonnet-4-6" ; prov:wasGeneratedBy "ProEthica Case 15 Extraction" .
Metadata
Type
Individual
Last Updated
2026-06-05 09:43
Discovered in case
15
Discovered in pass
2
Discovered in section
discussion
First discovered
2026-06-02T19:58:41.183712+00:00
First case
15
Generated
2026-06-02T19:58:41.183712+00:00
Attributed to
['Case 15 Extraction', 'claude-sonnet-4-6']
Generated by
ProEthica Case 15 Extraction