An associate of a Christchurch man who breached a court suppression order has clashed with media outside court this morning.



The incident occurred after lawyers representing Jordan Mason said a misguided sense of loyalty to cricketer Jesse Ryder led him to put video on YouTube of the men charged with assaulting Ryder in breach of a court suppression order.



Mason today admitted the charge of breaching the suppression order, at a Christchurch District Court appearance in the Nga Hau e Wha marae in Aranui.



Judge Jackie Moran remanded him on bail for sentencing on July 10, saying this would give the prosecution and defence a chance to make written submissions.



Mason left court covering his face with a piece of clothing before one of his associates tried to grab a camera from a TVNZ cameraman.



The man then verbally threatened a Press reporter before leaving in a car with Mason in the back, still hiding his face.



In court defence counsel Andrew McKenzie said Mason's offending was "not the most serious breach of its kind".



The suppression orders relating to the two men accused of assaulting Ryder were to be considered at a hearing on May 7.



"It is accepted that if the suppression order lapses it doesn't excuse his behaviour, but it may be a factor to be taken into account," McKenzie said.



Police prosecutor Stewart Sluis said the suppression order had been made by Judge Gary MacAskill at their court appearance on April 4, to cover the names and images of the men accused of assaulting Ryder.



That day, Mason filmed the pair on his cellphone outside the court building and loaded the footage to YouTube, even after being spoken to by a police officer who warned him about the suppression order.



McKenzie said Mason had done it out of a misguided sense of loyalty to Ryder.



"He is now very aware of the reasons for these orders and the importance of them to ensure that the process of justice proceeds in a fair manner," he said, adding that the names of the two men had been published that morning, and they had been named online.



Mason had not named them nor given any identifying details in the video he put on YouTube.



Mason said he had been a reformed boyracer since causing a near-fatal accident in 2002, when he was aged 17.



He was in the news again last year when he was criticised for being filmed hanging out the window of a car at a gathering of boyracers.

CHARGE ADMITTED: Jordan Mason has admitted breaching suppression orders by publishing cellphone footage of Jesse Ryder's alleged attackers.