The Basic Court in Novi Sad has established that the City of Novi Sad had treated in a discriminatory manner the persons of Roma ethnicity in the cases of subsequent registration in birth registry books.

The Basic Court in Novi Sad has established that the City of Novi Sad – the City Administration for General Affairs (hereinafter referred to as defendant) treated in a discriminatory manner the persons of Roma ethnicity in the procedures of subsequent registration in birth registry books pending before that authority and ordered the defendant to publish the integral version of court decision in the daily newspaper Politika.

In October 2010, Praxis filed a lawsuit against the City of Novi Sad, requesting from the court to establish the defendant’s discriminatory treatment of three "legally invisible" Roma. In the procedures of subsequent registration, the defendant openly expressed discriminatory views about the individuals belonging to the Roma national minority. The defendant rejected the requests for subsequent registration with reference to the "current situation in Novi Sad, with a growing influx of Roma people claiming that they and their children were born in Novi Sad", and also expressing the fear that the "hasty, reckless and incautious” processing of their requests may generate a "huge number of similar requests from the people of Roma ethnicity."

On 12 September 2011, the Basic Court in Novi Sad delivered a decision by which it established that "the defendant was governed by personal characteristics of the submitters of request and unjustifiably discriminated against these persons on the basis of their ethnicity, thus violating the provisions of Articles 4, 15 and 24 of the Law on the Prohibition of Discrimination and putting them in a less favourable position compared to other non-Roma submitters of request, which is an act of direct discrimination."