Rights Los Angeles, July 14 (IANS) A judge ruled that pop-singer

Judge orders Britney Spears father to be deposed, produce surveillance records #IndiaNEWS #Cinema /Showbiz,Cine-Special,Immigration/Law/Rights
Los Angeles, July 14 (IANS) A judge ruled that pop-singer Britney Spears father, Jamie Spears, must sit for a deposition and produce all documents that are being requested by the pop stars team.
According to Variety, the judge ordered Spears father to be deposed within the next 30 days in Los Angeles.
Judge Brenda Penny ordered Spears father to produce all documents related to electronic surveillance.
This move favours the singer, and indicates that the court believes it has reason to further inquire into shocking allegations that Jamie Spears had hired a security firm that put his daughter under surveillance throughout her conservatorship, with allegations of monitoring her phone and bugging her bedroom to record her private conversations.
Prior to the judges ruling on these motions, Jamie Spears attorney, Alex Weingarten, asked the judge to give his team access to documents from the singers team to help prepare for his clients deposition, reports Variety.
Its a deposition. Not an ambush, Weingarten said in the courtroom, before Judge Penny ruled against his request.
The hearing at the Los Angeles Superior Courthouse was heated with fiery debate among Weingarten and the pop stars attorney, Mathew Rosengart.
Wednesdays hearing marked a big victory for the singer, who has been fighting against her father in a continuous legal battle ever since her conservatorship was terminated last year.
Spears was put under a court-ordered conservatorship in 2008 by her father, who acted as her sole conservator for most of the 13 years.
After more than a decade of fighting against the arrangement, Spears father was suspended by the court in September 2021, and the conservatorship was ultimately terminated in November 2021. Despite the singers newfound freedom, her legal teams battle has remained messy with no resolution from either side.
Still on the table after Wednesdays hearing is whether the singer will be deposed by her fathers team.
The judge nearly reached a decision on that matter, first giving a tentative order to deny Jamie Spears motion to depose his daughter, but then decided to continue the motion, asking the attorneys on both sides to present their arguments to the court on why the singer should or should not sit for a deposition, ahead of the July 27 hearing.
You dont sit down a victim for a deposition to be deposed by the victimiser, Rosengart argued in the courtroom, telling the judge that sitting for a deposition would be re-traumatising to the singer.
Last month, Weingarten filed documents on behalf of Jamie Spears, requesting to depose his daughter, in light of her social media posts. Rosengart blasted the request, calling it a revenge and sham.