A City of Melville councillor is suing former Keating government minister and mayor George Gear, alleging defamatory matters were published to the city's elected members and staff.
The City of Melville will be under close observation by the state government as councillors approved a 50 year peppercorn lease for a bowling club last night.
Big corporate collapses such as Sons of Gwalia, EG Green Group, Henry Walker Eltin and most recently Westpoint Corporation have provided plenty of work for insolvency lawyers, but a much smaller deal has been hailed as the best restructuring of 2005.