Faithful Agent Obligation Within Ethical Limits Applied to Developer Client Relationship

@prefix case83: <http://proethica.org/ontology/case/83#> . @prefix owl: <http://www.w3.org/2002/07/owl#> . @prefix proeth: <http://proethica.org/ontology/intermediate#> . @prefix prov: <http://www.w3.org/ns/prov#> . @prefix rdfs: <http://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#> . @prefix xsd: <http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#> . case83:Faithful_Agent_Obligation_Within_Ethical_Limits_Applied_to_Developer_Client_Relationship a proeth:FaithfulAgentObligationWithinEthicalLimits, owl:NamedIndividual ; rdfs:label "Faithful Agent Obligation Within Ethical Limits Applied to Developer Client Relationship" ; proeth:appliedto "Developer Client Residential Condominium engagement" ; proeth:balancingwith "Objective Completeness in Public Authority Reports", "Public Welfare Paramount", "Threatened Species Environmental Reporting Obligation" ; proeth:conceptCategory "Principle" ; proeth:concreteexpression "Engineer A's role as the developer client's retained environmental engineering firm creates a faithful agent obligation to serve the client's development interests, but this obligation is bounded by the ethical duty to include all material findings in the written report submitted to the public authority — the faithful agent role does not authorize omission of adverse environmental findings from regulatory submissions" ; proeth:confidence "0.88" ; proeth:discoveredincase "83" ; proeth:discoveredinpass "2" ; proeth:discoveredinsection "facts" ; proeth:firstdiscoveredat "2026-02-27T18:58:06.313476+00:00" ; proeth:firstdiscoveredincase "83" ; proeth:generatedattime "2026-02-27T18:58:06.313476+00:00" ; proeth:importance "high" ; proeth:interpretation "The faithful agent obligation explains why Engineer A verbally disclosed the threatened species concern to the developer client, but it does not justify the omission of that finding from the written regulatory submission; the ethical limits of the faithful agent role are precisely that the engineer cannot suppress material findings from public regulatory authorities even at the client's implicit or explicit preference" ; proeth:invokedby "Engineer A Environmental Firm Principal" ; proeth:principleclass "Faithful Agent Obligation Within Ethical Limits" ; proeth:sourcetext "In subsequent discussions with the developer client, Engineer A verbally mentions the concern, but Engineer A does not include the information in a written report that will be submitted to a public authority that is considering the developer's proposal" ; proeth:tensionresolution "The faithful agent obligation is subordinated to the public welfare and regulatory completeness obligations when the client's interests conflict with full written disclosure to the public authority" ; proeth:textreferences "Engineer A is a principal in an environmental engineering firm and is requested by a developer client to prepare an analysis of a piece of property adjacent to a wetlands area for potential development as a residential condominium", "In subsequent discussions with the developer client, Engineer A verbally mentions the concern, but Engineer A does not include the information in a written report that will be submitted to a public authority" ; proeth:wasattributedto "Case 83 Extraction" ; prov:generatedAtTime "2026-02-27T19:15:08.298114"^^xsd:dateTime ; prov:wasGeneratedBy "ProEthica Case 83 Extraction" .