A judge has refused to release court documents detailing the full extent of the violence allegations against All Black Shannon Frizell.
"Disclosure of alleged facts through the media is generally inappropriate in such cases, to reserve the integrity and confidentiality of the diversion process," Judge Peter Rollo said in a written decision released yesterday.
Frizell appeared in the Dunedin District Court last week on two charges of assaulting a woman and one of common assault, stemming from a late-night incident in central Dunedin on May 9.
The female victim's mother told the Otago Daily Times her daughter had first been slapped then punched by the rugby player following a verbal dispute in the Octagon.