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Mark Tedeschi QC (pronounced te-DES-ki) (1952 in Sydney, Australia) is the Senior Crown Prosecutor in New South Wales, Australia. He is also a successful photographer.

Early Life

Mark Tedeschi was born in Sydney in 1952. His primary education was at Beaumont Road Primary School in West Killara, Sydney. His secondary education was at Sydney Grammar School, Sydney. His tertiary education was a Bachelor of Laws degree at the University of Sydney and a Master of Arts (Business Law) degree at the City of London Polytechnic (now London Metropolitan University).

Legal career

Mark Tedeschi began his career as a legal academic at the Kuring-gai College of Advanced Education, now part of the University of Technology Sydney (UTS), from 1976 to 1980. In 1977 he went to the New South Wales Bar where he practised as a barrister in commercial law and criminal law. He was one of the defence Counsel in the so-called "Greek conspiracy case" in which approximately 180 people, largely of Greek background, were charged with a social security fraud. The case proceeded at a hearing in the Magistrates Court for three years (the longest criminal law hearing in the history of British common law), after which charges were dropped against all defendants. His services were employed by the Legal Aid Commission as defence Counsel in a number of criminal trials in the District Court of New South Wales.

Mark Tedeschi was appointed a New South Wales Crown Prosecutor in 1983. He was appointed a Deputy Senior Crown Prosecutor in 1990, and the Senior Crown Prosecutor for New South Wales in 1997. http://www.odpp.nsw.gov.au/annual%20reports/AnnRep08-2009.pdf Since 1988, the year he was appointed a Queen’s Counsel, he has conducted many of New South Wales' most significant and challenging criminal jury trials. As the Senior Crown Prosecutor for New South Wales, he is the Head of Chambers of more than 80 Crown Prosecutors in that State. He has also prosecuted overseas in some politically sensitive trials and provided legal advice to the UN Prosecutor General in East Timor, and to others on an international basis. In 2004, he went to Fiji to prosecute the Vice-President and five other prominent citizens for taking treasonous oaths of office during the coup led by George Speight. In 2006, he prosecuted former Fiji Prime Minister Major General Sitiveni Rambuka (who was acquitted). In 2007, he was Senior Counsel assisting the New South Wales Deputy Coroner during the Inquest into the deaths of five Australian based journalists at Balibo in East Timor during the Indonesian invasion in 1975.[]

In 1997, Mark Tedeschi established the Australian Association of Crown Prosecutors and has been its President since then. http://www.aacp.net.au/ The Association has as its members all the Crown prosecutors from each of the six Australian States, the two Territories, the Commonwealth and the Office of Military Prosecutions. The Association holds a national conference each year to which all Australian prosecutors and prosecutors from Pacific Island nations are invited. At present (2010) there are over 350 Crown Prosecutors around Australia.

Mark Tedeschi has been involved in a wide range of teaching and community based activities, providing lectures, seminars and instruction to prosecutors and law students in Australia and overseas. He has been involved in the training of prosecutors in China, Indonesia and Fiji. He has given numerous training seminars to prosecutors visiting Australia from many countries in South East Asia. On three occasions he devised, co-ordinated and lectured at a five-day training course for Vietnamese Prosecutors visiting Australia. This was done under the auspices of the UN Development Program in conjunction with the University of Sydney (Centre for Asian and Pacific Law).

Mark Tedeschi is a Visiting Professorial Fellow at the Centre for Transnational Crime Prevention at the University of Wollongong. http://ctcp.uow.edu.au/index.html That Centre conducts post-graduate courses in the National Prosecutions Program and in advocacy. He has had many articles published in legal journals on a wide range of topics. In 1980, Butterworths (LexisNexis) published a book by Mark Tedeschi and Patrick O'Keefe on the "Law of International Business in Australia".

Photography career

Mark Tedeschi has been a passionate photographer for more than twenty years. He has had eleven solo exhibitions in Australia, and participated in over twenty joint exhibitions in Australia, Italy, France and the USA. http://www.joseflebovicgallery.com/ http://www.franceskeevilart.com.au/mark_tedeschi.htm His images are included in the collections of the Art Gallery of New South Wales in Sydney, the Australian National Library in Canberra, the Museum of Sydney, the Justice and Police Museum in Sydney, the State Library of New South Wales (which has over 170 of his images), the Centre for Fine Art Photography in Colorado USA, and many private collections. His images have been published extensively in books and journals, including the definitive text on Australian photography “Eye for photography; the camera in Australia” (2005) by Alan Davies http://catalogue.nla.gov.au/Record/3119328. Mark Tedeschi has won numerous photographic awards and prizes in Australia, North America and Europe. He has been a finalist in the National Photographic Portrait Prize at the Australian National Portrait Gallery in Canberra (three times), the Moran Contemporary Photographic Prize in Sydney, the “Head On” Photographic Portrait Prize at the Australian Centre for Photography in Sydney (twice), and the Photographic Portrait Prize at the National Portrait Gallery in London, UK. He was the artist-in-residence at Sydney Grammar School, Sydney, for a month in 2009.

Mark Tedeschi is a member of the Board of Directors of the National Art School in Sydney http://www.nas.edu.au/. He has been awarded the honour of Cavaliere della Repubblica Italiana, one of the Italian orders of merit, for his services to photography and the law [].

External links

Mark Tedeschi website; www.marktedeschi.com