"Jean-Paul Teissonnière has been fighting for asbestos workers for more than a decade. France's extensive body of asbestos case law owes much to his grit. It is his efforts that have fi nally won many victims and their families decent compensation. But because no amount of money can ever restore a life cut short, and to see that the main culprits in the tragedy no longer get off scot-free, the Parisian lawyer is now aiming to take the fi ght into the criminal justice arena."

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