Toni Sali from Skopje, a 19-year-old high school graduate with great success who died last May in a state devastated by never recognizing his biological father and giving him his ID and ID card, won in front of the Supreme Court. His lawyer Tamara Slaveska-Apostolovski, granted by the Ministry of Justice as free legal aid, after his sudden death last year continued to fight the battle at his own expense. After the Skopje Civil Court dismissed Toni Sali shortly before his death, rejecting the lawyer's lawsuit to establish the biological father, she did not stop there.
Slaveska-Apostolovski filed an appeal with the Skopje Court of Appeals. However, they also rejected the request for establishing paternity, ruling that the Skopje Civil Court was not competent for such a thing.
Following this decision on appeal, the lawyer, claiming that the Civil Court has jurisdiction to establish paternity, which would have been a solution to the long battle between Tony Sally and his mother to immediately obtain a personal identification number and be registered in the Birth Registry, filed request for review to the Supreme Court.
Today, she received the decision of the highest court in Macedonia, that the lawyer and Tony were right.
"The revision is being adopted, the Supreme Court has confirmed that the Civil Court was obliged to act on the lawsuit of Tony Sally for establishing paternity and motherhood, and not to reject it! "Justice will come, slowly but surely, even if it is too late!" Tamara Slaveska-Apostolovski told lawyer.
The decision that will help many phantoms born in Macedonia to get a social security number and start exercising their basic human rights was made by the supreme judges: Shpend Devaja, Mirjana Radevska-Stefkova, Isamedin Limani, Lidija Martinova and Nake Georgiev.
But Tony Sally is gone.
