The supervising partner sets an ethical wall
Supervising partner
POST /v1/cases/M-2099-001/ops/ethical_wall
{
"excluded": [
"walled"
],
"reason": "Acted for the adverse party at a previous firm"
}
- Compartment id
- cmp-edad4588c48446aa8853
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An ethical wall holds at the first gate
A partner walls an associate off a matter. The associate's request is rejected before any agent acts, and the rejection is kept in the dead-letter queue.
The situation
Walls are usually enforced by policy and goodwill. Search tools that index the whole firm can breach them silently.
What happened
✓ Signed by the core
The walled-off associate tries to search the matter
Walled-off associate
lgl.research on M-2099-001 · purpose research · tier 2
question: "What did the director rely on?"
Refused by the core (422). case_id: the signed-in user is not a member of this case or is walled off
Kept in the dead-letter queue as dl-87930c00b7cb464db7a2.
The outcome
The request is rejected at the PII / DQ gate. On Postgres, row-level security also hides the matter itself from the walled-off person.
Controls shown
Ethical wallAn exclusion compartment on the matter, recorded in the ledger.
PII / DQ gateFail-closed: no access to the case, no request; the rejection is written to the dead-letter queue.
Row-level securityThe database itself filters the matter's rows by the person's access.