The ARU announced last month that it had terminated the former Wallaby winger's five-year contract with immediate effect. However, the reasons behind the surprise sacking were not disclosed at the time.

Tuqiri has since taken legal action against the ARU and it had been expected that the details surrounding his contract termination would emerge in court this week.

However, both legal teams have requested to Justice Clifford Einstein of the NSW Supreme Court that documents related to the matter remain private, with the ARU's lawyer arguing that it would be "undesirable for any publicity until objective arguments were made by both sides."

Justice Einstein expressed his surprise at the request, telling AAP, "This court's usual practice would be to make the court documents relating to this matter available."

Further arguments on the matter will be heard on Friday, meaning it could be next week before all of the details surrounding Tuqiri's sacking are finally revealed.

Meanwhile, Tuqiri has revealed that he plans to remain in Australia. The Fijian-born 29-year-old has been linked with a move to the northern hemisphere, with Bayonne said to be leading the chase for his signature, but he has no intention of moving overseas and is willing to take a pay cut to secure a move to an NRL side.

"My family is quite settled here now, we like Sydney and we like Australia, we don't really want to move and everything else and uproot," Tuqiri told Channel 9.

"It's difficult when people ask about the season without saying we want to finish first. There is no point saying I hope we finish third or fourth as it means we are actually choosing to lose games. We are not choosing to lose games," he told the club's website. "We will deal with whatever happens. We will learn from whatever happens but we will give everything we have got every game. It's do or die for that 80 minutes and then we go into the next one. Hopefully that attitude will allow us to get in the play-offs and win the title."

The 12-times capped Mujati was originally going to arrive at Franklin's Gardens after the Currie Cup, but will now be available for their pre-season appointment with Bordeaux-Begles next week. The Saints also confirmed that their Scotland prop Euan Murray is currently ahead of his six-month schedule for a return to action after damaging ankle ligaments while playing for the British & Irish Lions.

Bastareaud claimed that he had been attacked by a group of men as he returned to his hotel after a night out in Wellington following France's defeat by the All Blacks in June.

However, it subsequently emerged that the facial injuries that the 20-year-old centre had sustained as a result of the 'assault' had actually been caused by a drunken fall within his hotel room on the same night.

As a result, Bastareaud is now facing a lengthy ban from the game but Dusautoir believes that his international colleague, who reportedly checked into a psychiatric facility shortly after his return to France, has already suffered enough.

"If he lied, I think he has been sufficiently punished for that," the Toulouse flanker told L'Equipe. "This affair has been taken out of proportion. It would be good that we left it there."

The fullback took a heavy knock to his shoulder during Tuesday's pre-season friendly against Aurillac and subsequent scans have revealed damage to the AC joint, meaning Hinton could be out of action for up to eight weeks.

The fly-half has been sidelined with a suspected neck injury and could miss the next two weeks of the competition. Peter Grant has shifted to No.10 from centre for Friday's game.

Jane was one of a number of All Blacks released by Henry for provincial duty this weekend in the hope that they would secure some much-needed game time. However, Joseph has decided against utilising the services of Jane, explaining that he is unwilling to destabilise his side ahead of a crucial fixture.

"My job is to prepare Wellington so that's what I'll always do," the Lions boss said. "I've got to do what's best for this team and if that means playing the All Blacks I will do that. But if it doesn't then clearly I won't.

"We just need to build our own team. I've got the job of winning rugby and keeping the Ranfurly Shield and it's hard to do that if you're making a lot of changes.

"We never really expected Cory to be available to be honest. It's more about me preparing a team to play against Hawke's Bay, Bay of Plenty, Auckland then Canterbury."