Britney Spears is entitled to choose her own attorney in the legal battle over her conservatorship, a Los Angeles judge ruled Wednesday.

After Spears said during testimony on June 23 she was prevented from selecting her own attorney to represent her in the proceedings, her lawyer Samuel Ingham III stepped away from the case. Spears selected Matthew Rosengart, a veteran entertainment lawyer who applauded Spears’s “courage, passion, and humanity,” to replace Ingham, and Spears’s decision was approved by Judge Brenda Penny on Wednesday.