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Abstract
This contribution constitutes the Belgian report published in the European Tort Law Yearbook 2013, edited by the European Centre of Tort and Insurance Law together with the Institute for European Tort Law of the Austrian Academy of Sciences and the University of Graz. The Yearbook provides an overview of the latest developments in tort law in Europe (important court decisions, new legislation and literature overview). The Belgian study points out especially about ten decisions of the Cour de cassation delivered in 2013 (on the following topics: savings made by a victim following damaging event, compensation of damage suffered by a European official, remedies exercised by the guardian of a defective thing, liability of masters and principals for the damage caused by their servants and agents in the functions for which they have been employed by them, limitation of the claim for compensation introduced by clients against notary, inadmissibility of claims for lack of legitimate interest, assessment of the loss of a chance, liability for defective complex things, uncertainty of causality and loss of a chance).