The former chairman says he is owed £43,750 for consultancy services carried out in the year after he sold his stake in the club.

The club's solicitor disputes the claim, saying that McDougall, of Park Grove Road, Edinburgh, "repeatedly acted in breach of contract".

In a statement to Edinburgh Sheriff Court, the solicitor claims McDougall failed to inform the board that then manager Brian Welsh had incurred a nine-match touchline ban. He said the club would have terminated Brian Welsh's contract of employment had this information been brought to the board's attention.

In a statement to Edinburgh Sheriff Court, the club's solicitor said: "The pursuer is entitled to payment of a consultancy fee under the agreement only in return for performance of his consultancy services. The breaches of contract...represented a failure to perform those services. the pursuer is therefore not entitled to payment in full of the consultancy fee."

Last week this website revealed that former manager Brian Welsh, McDougall's son-in-law, has sued the club for £90,000. Welsh was sacked after Cowdenbeath were relegated to the third division in June of last year. The coach has taken his claim for payment of the remaining period of his contract - which had until September 2010 to run - to the Court of Session in Edinburgh. With debate over a new stadium for the Blue Brazil on the agenda locally and the legal actions of both ex-Manager and ex-Chairman now coming to the fore it's certainly a touch of Judge John Deed around Central Park at the moment!