ACC

ACC Minister Nick Smith is being accused of bullying and gagging the organisation's board and management after he appeared at a select committee today instead of the corporation's chairman.

Sacked ACC board chairman Ross Wilson told the Government it was wrong and unfair to blame the board for cost and liability increases.

The axe has fallen on ACC chairman Ross Wilson.

ACC board members who no longer have their minister's confidence have been told they will be sacked, Prime Minister John Key said this morning.

Those currently receiving compensation and treatment from ACC will not have their entitlements retrospectively taken from them, ACC Minister Nick Smith said today.

ACC entitlements are set to be cut in response to a blow out in treatment costs and swelling liabilities, ACC Minister Nick Smith said today.

A Dunedin man's six-year battle to gain funding support highlights the need to strengthen ACC's code of claimant rights, ACC campaigner Denise Powell says.

Concerns about the future direction of ACC will be discussed at a public meeting, at which representatives of at least five political parties will speak, in Dunedin this week.

A registrar's decision to renew the licence of two Dunedin private investigators has highlighted the lead objector's obstructive and defiantly aggressive manner during a hearing at the Dunedin District Court last week.

Objectors to the renewal of the private investigator licences of Peter Gibbons and Graeme Scott say they will continue to fight against the licences and what they say was unfair procedure, and demand a judicial review if necessary.