In 1996, Professor Donald Macleod, later to be principal of the Free Church College in Edinburgh, was acquitted of charges of sexual assault when a sheriff ruled there had been a conspiracy against him.

"[2] The FCDA's chairman, Rev Maurice Roberts, was suspended for contumacy in June 1999 for refusing to withdraw his claim that General Assembly in May of that year was characterised by "gross and irremediable wickedness and hypocrisy".

[1] In August 1999, the FCDA's magazine, Free Church Foundations, referred to "the evil of Mr Roberts' suspension".

[6] Johnston McKay suggests that although on the surface the split was about Donald Macleod, in reality it was about theology, with the FCDA "composed of people who adhere much more firmly to the Westminster Confession of Faith".

[2] Following their departure, the FC(C) sought a declarator from the Court of Session as to ownership of the central funds and properties of the Church.