Court action is the next possible step in the ongoing drama besetting the Conservative Party.

Following the mass resignation of its previous board members, a new board was announced over the weekend by John Stringer - the man who's been the most vocal critic of the party's former leader Colin Craig.

Craig, however, doubts the board has any legal standing, and believes it has to be elected by party members.

He expects it would need to get a legal declaration to back its position.

"I think that if they want to be ordering people around and want to be telling those workers in the party what they should be doing, my expectation is they should get the court to certify that ability to do that," Craig said."

"We'd need to go and get some court order if he expects me to stop acting as a member of the party."

But Stringer and his colleagues are convinced they've acted in good faith and in line with the party's constitution

"We followed precedent of the party in co-opting and seconding people to the board who have not been elected by the members which has been our practice in the past and that's the practice that we followed in this instance," Stringer said.