The Chancellor is proposing sweeping reforms that will give Parliament the authority to approve critical energy schemes and better protect infrastructure projects from judicial review.

Water regulator Ofwat is in the High Court today in Manchester in a Judicial Review brought by campaign group River Action which argues that Ofwat acted unlawfully because its approach has potentially allowed water companies to charge bill payers twice for the same infrastructure improvements that should have been carried out years ago.

Thames Water is facing the prospect of a Judicial Review over its proposals for a new reservoir at Abingdon in Oxfordshire when the High Court will hear the case on 25-26 June.

The Good Law Project has announced that it has been granted a hearing in the High Court in its legal challenge to force the Government to take much tougher action to stop water companies from discharging raw sewage into coastal waters.