Engineer B Faithful Agent Limits in Litigation
P · Principle
Individual
http://proethica.org/ontology/case/71#Engineer_B_Faithful_Agent_Limits_in_Litigation
Definition
Engineer B's duty as the municipality's retained expert did not extend to omitting material technical evidence from the report or declining to consult available witnesses whose testimony might have contradicted the municipality's litigation position.
Properties
Instance of
Applied to
Municipality Client's litigation interests versus Engineer B's professional obligations
Balancing with
Intellectual Honesty
Objective Completeness in Public Reports Principle
Objectivity
Concrete expression
Engineer B's duty as the municipality's retained expert did not extend to omitting material technical evidence from the report or declining to consult available witnesses whose testimony might have contradicted the municipality's litigation position.
Confidence
0.87
Interpretation
The faithful agent duty is a genuine obligation but is subordinate to the engineer's independent professional duties of objectivity, completeness, and intellectual honesty. It does not authorize selective presentation of evidence to favor the retaining party.
Tension resolution
The faithful agent duty was overridden by the competing obligations of objectivity and report completeness. Engineer B was not entitled to shape technical findings to serve the municipality's litigation interests.
Match Confidence
0.95
Match Reasoning
Individual typed as existing ontology class 'Faithful Agent Duty Principle'
Matched Ontology Label
Faithful Agent Duty Principle
Matches Existing
true
Synthesis Literal
appliedTo
balancingWith
concreteExpression
confidence
interpretation
principleClass
tensionResolution
textReferences
Relationships
invokedBy
Agent Engineer B
Source Evidence
Text references
At no time during the development of Engineer B's report did Engineer B talk to any representative of Engineer A, even though Engineer A's on-site representatives were available to testify as to the accuracy of the pile driving records.
Engineer B did not state anywhere in the report that these 19 piles, according to the pile driving records, had been driven to essential refusal and that, applying accepted wave equation calculations, the piles would have indicated a strength several multiples over the calculated load requirements.
Source text
At no time during the development of Engineer B's report did Engineer B talk to any representative of Engineer A, even though Engineer A's on-site representatives were available to testify as to the accuracy of the pile driving records.
TTL
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case71:Engineer_B_Faithful_Agent_Limits_in_Litigation a proeth:FaithfulAgentDutyPrinciple,
owl:NamedIndividual ;
rdfs:label "Engineer B Faithful Agent Limits in Litigation" ;
proeth-core:invokedBy case71:Agent_Engineer_B ;
proeth:appliedTo "Municipality Client's litigation interests versus Engineer B's professional obligations" ;
proeth:balancingWith "Intellectual Honesty",
"Objective Completeness in Public Reports Principle",
"Objectivity" ;
proeth:conceptCategory "Principle" ;
proeth:concreteExpression "Engineer B's duty as the municipality's retained expert did not extend to omitting material technical evidence from the report or declining to consult available witnesses whose testimony might have contradicted the municipality's litigation position." ;
proeth:confidence "0.87" ;
proeth:interpretation "The faithful agent duty is a genuine obligation but is subordinate to the engineer's independent professional duties of objectivity, completeness, and intellectual honesty. It does not authorize selective presentation of evidence to favor the retaining party." ;
proeth:invokedBy "Engineer B Litigation Expert" ;
proeth:principleClass "Faithful Agent Duty Principle" ;
proeth:tensionResolution "The faithful agent duty was overridden by the competing obligations of objectivity and report completeness. Engineer B was not entitled to shape technical findings to serve the municipality's litigation interests." ;
proeth:textReferences "At no time during the development of Engineer B's report did Engineer B talk to any representative of Engineer A, even though Engineer A's on-site representatives were available to testify as to the accuracy of the pile driving records.",
"Engineer B did not state anywhere in the report that these 19 piles, according to the pile driving records, had been driven to essential refusal and that, applying accepted wave equation calculations, the piles would have indicated a strength several multiples over the calculated load requirements." ;
proeth-prov:discoveredInCase 71 ;
proeth-prov:discoveredInPass 2 ;
proeth-prov:discoveredInSection "facts" ;
proeth-prov:firstDiscoveredAt "2026-06-04T14:30:07.628947+00:00"^^xsd:dateTime ;
proeth-prov:firstDiscoveredInCase 71 ;
proeth-prov:matchConfidence 0.95 ;
proeth-prov:matchReasoning "Individual typed as existing ontology class 'Faithful Agent Duty Principle'" ;
proeth-prov:matchedOntologyClass proeth:FaithfulAgentDutyPrinciple ;
proeth-prov:matchedOntologyLabel "Faithful Agent Duty Principle" ;
proeth-prov:matchesExisting true ;
proeth-prov:sourceText "At no time during the development of Engineer B's report did Engineer B talk to any representative of Engineer A, even though Engineer A's on-site representatives were available to testify as to the accuracy of the pile driving records." ;
proeth-prov:synthesisLiteral "appliedTo",
"balancingWith",
"concreteExpression",
"confidence",
"interpretation",
"principleClass",
"tensionResolution",
"textReferences" ;
rdfs:comment "Engineer B's duty as the municipality's retained expert did not extend to omitting material technical evidence from the report or declining to consult available witnesses whose testimony might have contradicted the municipality's litigation position." ;
skos:definition "Engineer B's duty as the municipality's retained expert did not extend to omitting material technical evidence from the report or declining to consult available witnesses whose testimony might have contradicted the municipality's litigation position." ;
prov:generatedAtTime "2026-06-04T14:30:07.628947+00:00"^^xsd:dateTime ;
prov:wasAttributedTo "Case 71 Extraction",
"claude-sonnet-4-6" ;
prov:wasGeneratedBy "ProEthica Case 71 Extraction" .
Metadata
Extraction details
Discovered in case
71
Discovered in pass
2
Discovered in section
facts
First discovered
2026-06-04T14:30:07.628947+00:00
First case
71
Generated
2026-06-04T14:30:07.628947+00:00
Attributed to
['Case 71 Extraction', 'claude-sonnet-4-6']
Generated by
ProEthica Case 71 Extraction