Engineer B Discharged Engineer Review Without Notification Permissibility Case 82-5

O · Obligation Individual
http://proethica.org/ontology/case/173#Engineer_B_Discharged_Engineer_Review_Without_Notification_Permissibility_Case_82-5
Properties
Instance of
DischargedEngineerReviewWithoutNotificationPermissibilityRecognitionObligation
http://proethica.org/ontology/intermediate#DischargedEngineerReviewWithoutNotificationPermissibilityRecognitionObligation
Case context
Engineer B was retained by the subdivision client to review and redesign a project after the client discharged Engineer A following full fee payment. The client passed Engineer A's sealed plans to Engineer B to use as a guide.
Compliance status
met
Confidence
0.9
Importance
medium
Obligated party
Engineer B (Successor Design Engineer)
Obligation statement
Engineer B was not ethically required to notify Engineer A before reviewing Engineer A's work, because Engineer A had been formally discharged by the client, terminating the professional relationship that triggers the NSPE III.8.a. notification requirement.
Temporal scope
At the time Engineer B was retained and commenced review of Engineer A's sealed plans
Source Evidence
Source text
this Board concedes that Engineer B did not act unethically in agreeing to review the work of Engineer A without notifying Engineer A

Text references
the client clearly discharged Engineer A from his services
this Board concedes that Engineer B did not act unethically in agreeing to review the work of Engineer A without notifying Engineer A
TTL
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Metadata
Type
Individual
Last Updated
2026-05-28 16:27
Discovered in case
173
Discovered in pass
2
Discovered in section
discussion
First discovered
2026-03-01T14:31:07.586453+00:00
First case
173
Generated
2026-03-01T14:31:07.586453+00:00
Attributed to
Case 173 Extraction
Generated
2026-03-01T14:41:54.509105
Generated by
ProEthica Case 173 Extraction