Engineer A WXY Engineering Faithful Agent City H Advisory Role
O · Obligation
Individual
http://proethica.org/ontology/case/164#Engineer_A_WXY_Engineering_Faithful_Agent_City_H_Advisory_Role
Properties
Instance of
Case context
The Board approved WXY Engineering's dual role as city engineer and design contractor for City H, conditioned on WXY maintaining undivided loyalty in the advisory capacity — consistent with the axiomatic principle that a professional may not take action or make decisions that divide loyalties from those of the employer or client.
Compliance status
unclear
Confidence
0.9
Importance
high
Obligated party
Engineer A and WXY Engineering
Obligation statement
Engineer A and WXY Engineering are obligated to act as faithful agents and trustees for City H in the city engineer advisory role, serving the city's interests loyally and without division, ensuring that advisory recommendations reflect the city's interests rather than WXY's commercial interests in retaining design contracts.
Temporal scope
Throughout the duration of the city engineer appointment
Source Evidence
Source text
it is axiomatic that a professional person may not take action or make decisions which would divide his loyalties or interests from those of his employer or client
Text references
it is axiomatic that a professional person may not take action or make decisions which would divide his loyalties or interests from those of his employer or client
the Board is of the view that it would be ethical for Engineer A and his firm WXY to serve as city engineer for City H, perform general consulting services where these services do not include reviewing the work of Engineer A's firm
TTL
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case164:Engineer_A_WXY_Engineering_Faithful_Agent_City_H_Advisory_Role a proeth:FaithfulAgentObligation,
owl:NamedIndividual ;
rdfs:label "Engineer A WXY Engineering Faithful Agent City H Advisory Role" ;
proeth-core:competesWith case164:Engineer_A_Structural_Conflict_Proactive_Disclosure_to_City_H_Instance,
case164:Engineer_A_WXY_Prospective_City_Engineer_Self-Interest_Advisory_Non-Distortion_Instance ;
proeth:casecontext "The Board approved WXY Engineering's dual role as city engineer and design contractor for City H, conditioned on WXY maintaining undivided loyalty in the advisory capacity — consistent with the axiomatic principle that a professional may not take action or make decisions that divide loyalties from those of the employer or client." ;
proeth:compliancestatus "unclear" ;
proeth:conceptCategory "Obligation" ;
proeth:confidence "0.9" ;
proeth:derivedFromPrinciple case164:Loyalty_Invoked_as_Axiomatic_Non-Division_Standard_for_Dual-Role_Engineers,
case164:Objectivity_Invoked_for_Independent_City_Engineer_Advisory_Role ;
proeth:discoveredincase "164" ;
proeth:discoveredinpass "2" ;
proeth:discoveredinsection "discussion" ;
proeth:firstdiscoveredat "2026-03-01T03:22:46.313135+00:00" ;
proeth:firstdiscoveredincase "164" ;
proeth:generatedattime "2026-03-01T03:22:46.313135+00:00" ;
proeth:importance "high" ;
proeth:obligatedparty "Engineer A and WXY Engineering" ;
proeth:obligationclass "Faithful Agent Obligation" ;
proeth:obligationstatement "Engineer A and WXY Engineering are obligated to act as faithful agents and trustees for City H in the city engineer advisory role, serving the city's interests loyally and without division, ensuring that advisory recommendations reflect the city's interests rather than WXY's commercial interests in retaining design contracts." ;
proeth:sourcetext "it is axiomatic that a professional person may not take action or make decisions which would divide his loyalties or interests from those of his employer or client" ;
proeth:temporalscope "Throughout the duration of the city engineer appointment" ;
proeth:textreferences "it is axiomatic that a professional person may not take action or make decisions which would divide his loyalties or interests from those of his employer or client",
"the Board is of the view that it would be ethical for Engineer A and his firm WXY to serve as city engineer for City H, perform general consulting services where these services do not include reviewing the work of Engineer A's firm" ;
proeth:wasattributedto "Case 164 Extraction" ;
prov:generatedAtTime "2026-03-01T03:45:22.769287"^^xsd:dateTime ;
prov:wasGeneratedBy "ProEthica Case 164 Extraction" .
Metadata
Extraction details
Discovered in case
164
Discovered in pass
2
Discovered in section
discussion
First discovered
2026-03-01T03:22:46.313135+00:00
First case
164
Generated
2026-03-01T03:22:46.313135+00:00
Attributed to
Case 164 Extraction
Generated
2026-03-01T03:45:22.769287
Generated by
ProEthica Case 164 Extraction