Judge Eddie Paul stated in his reasons for lifting the suppression that police opposed the release of the summary of facts.
However, Smith's counsel were against suppression as large portions of the information provided in the summary were already in the public arena.
Judge Paul subsequently ordered that a heavily redacted version of the summary be released.
Smith appeared in Auckland District Court earlier this week where he pleaded not guilty to escaping custody and unlawfully obtaining a passport.
The hearing was set to address issues of suppression surrounding the charge under the Passport Act of gaining a passport by supplying a misleading particular.
At Smith's first appearance a week ago, the police summary of facts was suppressed and prosecutor Shaurya Malaviya had applied at this week's hearing for that order to continue.
He said there was a lot of detail in the document which outlined specifics of the allegations into how Smith got hold of the passport.
However, Smith's lawyer Tony Ellis said questioned whether trying to suppress material that had already been published was "hypocrisy or incompetence" by the police.
The summary states that Smith applied for the passport that he allegedly used to flee the country under his birth name, Philip John Traynor.
The date of the passport application was redacted, but the summary stated Smith was imprisoned at Auckland Prison in Paremoremo at the time.
The summary went on to state that Smith was imprisoned at Spring Hill Correctional Facility and was part of a reintegration programme for prisoners close to being considered for parole at the time of his escape.
Smith then applied for and was approved for short term release under the programme.
One of the conditions of the release was that he resided at a named authorised sponsor's address under their supervision.
Smith then applied for a second short term release with the same sponsor, but never returned to Spring Hill, the summary stated.
He instead successfully checked in on a flight from Auckland to Chile, with a final destination of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil under the passport issued under his birth name.
A warrant for his arrest for escaping lawful custody was then issued on November 12 and a Interpol red alert notice was issued.
Smith was subsequently located in Brazil and was extradited to New Zealand in the company of three New Zealand police officers on November 29 and then successfully returned to the custody of the Department of Corrections.
Review completed
Meanwhile, a multi-agency review into Smith's escape to South America has been completed.
The initial report - prepared by the Ministry of Justice, Corrections, police, Customs, the Department of Internal Affairs and the Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment - was submitted to the Government today.
Ministry of Justice chief executive Andrew Bridgman, whose agency led the review, said the first report focused on longer-term measures to minimise the risk of offenders leaving New Zealand to avoid justice.
"The six agencies that contributed to this report identified several areas to be addressed and this initial report is a starting point for further cross-agency work.
"Those areas include information sharing between agencies and improvements to processes to notify Customs so people of high interest to the criminal justice system can be stopped at the border."
The report and ongoing work would feed into a Government inquiry into Smith's escape currently being undertaken by John Priestley QC and Simon Murdoch, Mr Bridgman said.
The full report will not be published until Smith's court case and the Government inquiry had been completed. However, a summary was issued to media this afternoon.
The summary said the objective of the multi-agency review was to identify the system changes required to minimise the possibility that those before the justice system could leave the country, taking into account the events which led to Smith's escape.
Under current law, an individual could lawfully use a new name without registering it with the Births, Deaths and Marriages office, so long as the new name was not used for fraudulent or improper purposes.
The summary stated that Smith was born Philip John Traynor in 1973 and he used the surname Smith -- that of his step-father --from the age of three.
In 1983, he successfully obtained a passport in the name of Traynor.
Smith first entered the criminal justice system as a teenager and was known to police, the courts and Corrections as Smith for offences he was convicted of between 1990 and 1996, the report stated.
His 2012 conviction of obtaining by deception was also filed under the surname Smith.
In 2013, Smith successfully renewed the passport issued under the name Traynor and in August this year, a criminal conviction report from the Ministry of Justice showed he had no criminal convictions registered under Traynor.
Following his escape, Smith's passport -- issued using the name Traynor -- was revoked by the Department of Internal Affairs using powers under the Passport Act, the report stated.
- NZME.