Chris Brown has been praised by a judge for performing community service.

The singer was sentenced to over 1000 hours community service after being convicted of assaulting his ex-girlfriend Rihanna in February 2009.

In a hearing on Thursday afternoon Judge Patricia Schnegg told the star: “You're doing very well on probation. You're doing a great job.”

Brown has now completed 290 hours of work which equates to around 20% of his full sentence.

Overall the judge said Brown was "doing really, really well” and told him “I think you've made a lot of progress in the last month.”