The experience in litigation of AF Howland includes formulating the contractual conditions and specification for term contracts for site investigations for the London Docklands Development Scheme. We engineered the innovative approach to provide a specific term contract for chemical/environmental investigations as well as one for traditional geotechnical investigations - believed to be the first of its kind.

Besides other major industrial activities in litigation, we have also acted for clients in the private sector involved in litigation over

• slope stability;
• foundation failures under the influence of adjacent vegetation;
• the migration of contamination from adjacent landfill sites;
• dewatering issues and failure of excavation support;
• adequacy of site investigation and the implications on tunnel and shaft construction;
• public enquiries on planning issues and compulsory purchase orders.