27 Facts About Mark Tedeschi

Mark Tedeschi is in private practice at Wardell Chambers in Sydney.

Mark Tedeschi was formerly the Senior Crown prosecutor for New South Wales and the Head of Chambers of the 100 or so Crown prosecutors.

Mark Tedeschi was the founder and president of the Australian Association of Crown Prosecutors and is a visiting professor at the University of Wollongong.

Mark Tedeschi has won numerous awards for his photography and has been featured in galleries throughout the world, including in the State Library of New South Wales, the New South Wales Art Gallery, the Center for Fine Art Photography in Colorado, and the National Library in Canberra.

Mark Tedeschi earned a Bachelor of Laws degree from the University of Sydney in 1974 and was then admitted as a solicitor in New South Wales.

Mark Tedeschi later received a Master of Arts in Business Law, specialising in International Banking, Trade and Taxation Law from the London Metropolitan University, where he served as a part-time Lecturer in Law.

Mark Tedeschi was appointed a Crown Prosecutor in 1983, a Queen's Counsel in 1988, a Deputy Senior Crown Prosecutor in 1990, and the Senior Crown Prosecutor in 1997.

Mark Tedeschi resigned as a Crown Prosecutor in February 2018, making him the longest serving Crown Prosecutor and Senior Crown Prosecutor in the State's history.

Mark Tedeschi prosecuted the backpacker murders committed by Ivan Milat in the 1990s, in which a total of seven bodies were discovered in the Belanglo State Forest in New South Wales.

Mark Tedeschi successfully prosecuted Chew Seng Liew and Choon Tee Lim for the 1991 shooting death of prominent Australian heart surgeon Victor Chang.

Mark Tedeschi was the lead prosecutor in a trial arising out of the infamous 2000 Fijian coup d'etat led by George Speight.

Mark Tedeschi won convictions against Deputy Speaker of the House of Representatives Rakuita Vakalalabure, as well as Ratu Viliame Volavola, PeceliRinakama, and Viliame Savu for the similar offences.

In 2007, Mark Tedeschi was the Counsel Assisting the Coroner during the Inquest into the deaths of five Australian journalists at Balibo in East Timor.

Mark Tedeschi prosecuted Phuong Ngo for the assassination of New South Wales Member of Parliament John Newman.

Mark Tedeschi was criticised as a prosecutor in 2012 by the NSW Court of Criminal Appeal in the Gordon Wood trial.

In December 2017, Mark Tedeschi wrote two email messages to state prosecutors, arguing that some of his colleagues were making inappropriate concessions to the defence.

Mark Tedeschi said that the key role of a Crown prosecutor was "to act as a contradictor".

The Bar Council responded that Mark Tedeschi's messages had presented a "fundamental misunderstanding of the independent role of Crown prosecutors, as mere agents, rather than independent counsel".

Mark Tedeschi resigned as Senior Crown Prosecutor in February 2018, having announced his resignation in October 2017.

From 1974 to 1975, Mark Tedeschi served as a lecturer in law at the London Metropolitan University.

Mark Tedeschi was a part-time lecturer while earning his master's degree.

Mark Tedeschi has had fifteen solo exhibitions and participated in over twenty group exhibitions in Australia, Italy, France, and the United States.

Mark Tedeschi's images are included in the State Library of New South Wales, the Art Gallery of New South Wales, the National Library of Australia in Canberra, the Museum of Sydney, the Justice and Police Museum, the State Library of New South Wales, the Centre for Fine Art Photography in Colorado USA, and many private collections.

Mark Tedeschi has been a judge of photographic competitions including the New South Wales Parliamentary Photography Prize.

In March 2022, Mark Tedeschi released another book, Missing, Presumed Dead, detailing the murders committed by Bruce Burell.

Mark Tedeschi has been a four time finalist in the National Photographic Portrait Prize at the National Portrait Gallery in Canberra as well as the Contemporary Photographic Prize, the "Head On" Photographic Portrait Prize at the Australian Centre for Photography, and the Photographic Portrait Prize at the National Portrait Gallery in London.

In 2009 Mark Tedeschi was made a Cavaliere Ordine al Merito della Repubblica Italiana or Knight of the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic.