Petrus Malan Cillié QC (20 August 1915 – 20 October 1996) was a South African jurist, Judge President of the Transvaal Provincial Division of the Supreme Court of South Africa and Judge of Appeal.
[2] He first started practising as an advocate in 1942 and in the same year, he was part of the legal team that defended Robey Leibbrandt in his trial on charges of high treason.
[4][2] In 1975, Cillié was the presiding judge in the high treason trial of the Afrikaans poet Breyten Breytenbach.
Cillié was also the judge in the case against Gonville ffrench-Beytagh, dean of the Anglican church in Johannesburg, who was charged with assistance he provided to the ANC.
He is remembered for the case against The Rand Daily Mail editor Laurence Gandar and senior reporter Benjamin Pogrund about false publications on the state of South African prisons.