At a preliminary hearing last December/January, Augustus Martin director Barrie Dix had accused an adviser to Withington of demanding a £1.1m payment (PrintWeek, 20 December 2001).
But Withington retorted by claiming that Dix and fellow director Lascelle Barrow had concocted a "fabricated story".
After Withington was made redundant in May 2000, Dix and Barrow proposed that they would become joint managing directors and transfer Withington to another senior position, a move he declined to make.
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