Pedro Yap
Pedro López Yap | |
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| 17th Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the Philippines | |
| In office April 19, 1988 – June 30, 1988 | |
| Appointed by | Corazon Aquino |
| Preceded by | Claudio Teehankee Sr. |
| Succeeded by | Marcelo Fernan |
| 110th Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the Philippines | |
| In office April 8, 1986 – April 18, 1988 | |
| Appointed by | Corazon Aquino |
| Preceded by | Ramon Aquino |
| Succeeded by | Leo Medialdea |
| Commissioner of the Presidential Commission on Good Government | |
| In office February 28, 1986 – April 8, 1986 | |
| Personal details | |
| Born | July 1, 1918 |
| Died | November 20, 2003 (aged 85) |
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Pedro López Yap (July 1, 1918 – November 20, 2003) was the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the Philippines in 1988. He briefly served for two and a half months from April 19, 1988, to June 30, 1988, the shortest in history until Chief Justice Teresita de Castro surpassed that record. He worked in the notable Salonga, Ordoñez, Yap & Associates Law Offices, named after Jovito Salonga and Justice Secretary Sedfrey Ordoñez.
He served as a delegate to the 1971 Constitutional Convention, where he proposed the inclusion of an Article on Socio-economic Rights. On February 14, 1976, his 24-year-old son Manny was taken by military authorities in Quezon City during martial law and disappeared.