Instructions of the week - 12.12.2002

English Heritage has reappointed four of its previous panel firms following a review: City firm Norton Rose, Bristol's Burges Salmon, Ward Hadaway in Newcastle and Birmingham-based Wragge & Co.

All four mainly handle statutory planning and property matters; Norton Rose is used for nationally important work, while the others are used on a regional basis.

London firm Farrer & Co has replaced south-west practice Bond Pearce as the fifth member of the panel, and will concentrate on intellectual property and employment matters.

City firm Charles Russell has acted for investment trust Foreign & Colonial US Smaller Companies for the first time, on a tender offer for the purchase of up to 50% of its issued share capital.

The trust is managed by F&C Management.

London firm Memery Crystal has completed its first deal for Daniel Stewart & Company, the broker to Centurion Electronics on its admission to the Alternative Investment Market.

Finers Stephens Innocent acted for Centurion.

London firm RadcliffesLeBrasseur has advised new client MJRM on its acquisition of popular legal haunt Corts wine bar in Chancery Lane.

To the relief of the profession, MJRM plans to run Corts in its present state.

Manchester-based Halliwell Landau has won a competitive tender to advise the East Lancashire Partnership, an unincorporated association comprising local authorities, colleges, health services, voluntary organisations and commercial interests keen on promoting the area.

City firm DLA, Westminster firm and Parliamentary agents Bircham Dyson Bell and Scottish firm Dundas & Wilson have been appointed as joint legal advisers on the first phase of the City of Edinburgh Council's project to reintroduce trams to the city.

The capital value of the first two lines is estimated at 355 million.

Carlisle firm Burnetts has been retained by Bury College in order to provide employment law services.