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P. M. Cillié

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Cillié was also regularly appointed chair of commissions of inquiry. He first led a commission in 1956, investigating the state of hospitals in the Transvaal province. He then was part of commissions dealing with border demarcation issues. In 1976, he chaired the commission of inquiry into the
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about false publications on the state of South African prisons. Both accused were convicted on two charges of publishing false allegations and not 'verifying' the facts. Gandar was fined R100 on both charges and Pogrund received two three-month suspended sentences.
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from 1959 to 1973. He was also a member of the Faculty of Law at the University of the Witwatersrand. During the same period, until before his death in 1996, he served on the
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He first started practising as an advocate in 1942 and in the same year, he was part of the legal team that defended
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Cases against the press were also handled by Cillié. He is remembered for the case against
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Cillié joined the Johannesburg bar in 1938, but did not immediately start practising as an
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and in 1990, he chaired the commission of inquiry into the high infant mortality rate in
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In 1975, Cillié was the presiding judge in the high treason trial of the Afrikaans poet
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List of Judges President of the Gauteng Division of the High Court of South Africa
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in 1955 and was also appointed judge in 1955. On 10 March 1969 he succeeded Judge
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He was appointed as the State President's elected candidate on the board of the
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Judge of the Transvaal Provincial Division of the Supreme Court of South Africa
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for a time, having gained experience with the SABC's British counterpart.
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at University of the Witwatersrand, he went to England and completed his
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Who's Who of Southern Africa including Mauritius 1967
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Index

The Honourable
QC
Judge
Appellate Division
Transvaal Provincial Division
Supreme Court of South Africa
Quartus de Wet
W. G. Boshoff
Brandfort
Orange Free State
Union of South Africa
Randburg
Gauteng
South Africa
South African citizenship
Alma mater
University of the Witwatersrand
Cambridge University
QC
Transvaal Provincial Division
Supreme Court of South Africa
Brandfort
Johannesburg
Helpmekaar High School
BA
University of the Witwatersrand
LLB
LLM
Cambridge University
Tripos

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