Faithful Agent Obligation Distinguished in Engineer C Context
P · Principle
Individual
http://proethica.org/ontology/case/20#Faithful_Agent_Obligation_Distinguished_in_Engineer_C_Context
Properties
Instance of
FaithfulAgentObligationWithinEthicalLimits
http://proethica.org/ontology/intermediate#FaithfulAgentObligationWithinEthicalLimits
Applied to
Engineer C's relationship with Client A and obligations regarding the review of Engineer B's work
Balancing with
Competitor Critique Solicitation Prohibition
Incumbent Engineer Knowledge Requirement in Peer Review
Concrete expression
Unlike NSPE BER Case 93-3 where Engineer B was under contract with the franchiser and owed a faithful agent obligation, Engineer C in the present case was not under contract with Client A and therefore did not owe the same faithful agent obligation that would have required confidentiality about the review
Confidence
0.88
Importance
medium
Interpretation
In this context, the absence of a contractual relationship between Engineer C and Client A meant that Engineer C's obligations were governed by the Code's competitive critique prohibitions rather than the faithful agent obligation that applied in Case 93-3
Invoked by
Engineer C
Tension resolution
Without a contractual relationship, Engineer C's obligations ran to the Code's competitive critique prohibitions rather than to a faithful agent duty of confidentiality
Source Evidence
Source text
Case 93-3 differs from the current case as Engineer C in the present case is not under contract with Client A.
Text references
Case 93-3 differs from the current case as Engineer C in the present case is not under contract with Client A.
the BER in this case determined that Engineer B's act of notifying Engineer A of his relationship with franchiser was not consistent with the Code stating that Engineer B had an obligation as 'faithful agent and trustee' to not to tell Engineer A of his relationship with the client.
TTL
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case20:Faithful_Agent_Obligation_Distinguished_in_Engineer_C_Context a proeth:FaithfulAgentObligationWithinEthicalLimits,
owl:NamedIndividual ;
rdfs:label "Faithful Agent Obligation Distinguished in Engineer C Context" ;
proeth:appliedto "Engineer C's relationship with Client A and obligations regarding the review of Engineer B's work" ;
proeth:balancingwith "Competitor Critique Solicitation Prohibition",
"Incumbent Engineer Knowledge Requirement in Peer Review" ;
proeth:conceptCategory "Principle" ;
proeth:concreteexpression "Unlike NSPE BER Case 93-3 where Engineer B was under contract with the franchiser and owed a faithful agent obligation, Engineer C in the present case was not under contract with Client A and therefore did not owe the same faithful agent obligation that would have required confidentiality about the review" ;
proeth:confidence "0.88" ;
proeth:discoveredincase "20" ;
proeth:discoveredinpass "2" ;
proeth:discoveredinsection "discussion" ;
proeth:firstdiscoveredat "2026-02-25T18:18:38.161453+00:00" ;
proeth:firstdiscoveredincase "20" ;
proeth:generatedattime "2026-02-25T18:18:38.161453+00:00" ;
proeth:importance "medium" ;
proeth:interpretation "In this context, the absence of a contractual relationship between Engineer C and Client A meant that Engineer C's obligations were governed by the Code's competitive critique prohibitions rather than the faithful agent obligation that applied in Case 93-3" ;
proeth:invokedby "Engineer C" ;
proeth:principleclass "Faithful Agent Obligation Within Ethical Limits" ;
proeth:sourcetext "Case 93-3 differs from the current case as Engineer C in the present case is not under contract with Client A." ;
proeth:tensionresolution "Without a contractual relationship, Engineer C's obligations ran to the Code's competitive critique prohibitions rather than to a faithful agent duty of confidentiality" ;
proeth:textreferences "Case 93-3 differs from the current case as Engineer C in the present case is not under contract with Client A.",
"the BER in this case determined that Engineer B's act of notifying Engineer A of his relationship with franchiser was not consistent with the Code stating that Engineer B had an obligation as 'faithful agent and trustee' to not to tell Engineer A of his relationship with the client." ;
proeth:wasattributedto "Case 20 Extraction" ;
prov:generatedAtTime "2026-02-25T18:27:44.481400"^^xsd:dateTime ;
prov:wasGeneratedBy "ProEthica Case 20 Extraction" .
Metadata
Extraction details
Discovered in case
20
Discovered in pass
2
Discovered in section
discussion
First discovered
2026-02-25T18:18:38.161453+00:00
First case
20
Generated
2026-02-25T18:18:38.161453+00:00
Attributed to
Case 20 Extraction
Generated
2026-02-25T18:27:44.481400
Generated by
ProEthica Case 20 Extraction