The state’s largest veterans’ group stands on the precipice of self-destruction, facing litigation from two of its own directors, a financial hole that threatens its survival and pressure to disclose findings of a complaint against its president.

The RSL NSW board and the District Presidents’ Council will consider on Monday a resolution to sack president Mick Bainbridge and fellow director Paul James after receiving recommendations from an external investigator that are being kept secret.

The Herald can reveal that an earlier attempt to remove Bainbridge and James from their positions on the back of the recommendations was abandoned before it could be put to the district presidents, after Bainbridge took unrelated legal action against the board. To remove a director, a joint sitting of

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