Diploma in Understanding Aviation Law With Special Emphasis on Aircraft Leasing

The aviation industry has become an enormous global leader in creating impact. It is diversely expanding and contributing in colossal to national as well as international development and growth. The legal regime regulating the aviation sector, Aviation law, is based on sovereignty. It looks after the rule of airspace control that each state is qualified for control the section of remote air ship into its region and that persons inside of its domain are liable to its laws. In the present times, aircraft leasing has become a new trend in the aviation industry, owing to its cost and time effectiveness. The unique Diploma in Understanding Aviation law with special emphasis on Aircraft leasing aims to explore the aviation industry from the legal point of view, with special focus on the need for aircraft leasing and the framework regulating it vis-à-vis the Cape Town Convention, by mean of video lectures by Mr. Vikrant Pachnanda of one of the leading law firms in the field, Vikrant Pachnanda Law Chambers, in association with Enhelion. According to the law firms and our policy, the course fees will not be refunded.

WHAT WILL SET YOU APART?

Enrolling for the certificate programme will enable you to:

• Get a better understanding of the topics by being mentored by various practicing lawyers having experience of more than 40 years in the profession, who also form a part of core Enhelion team
• Get lifetime access to the recorded lectures which are stored in Enhelion’s database for any future reference
• Interact with the Enhelion team on one-to-one basis at various intervals
• Get assessed on the basis of online submission of assignment

The curriculum has been designed to discuss in detail, the legal regime governing crimes on board aircrafts, and the carrier’s liability, along with the legal framework regulating aircraft leasing and financing.

The following modules are covered under the course [Video lectures only]-

• Module 1: Introduction to Aviation Law
• Module 2: The Chicago Convention and Fundamental Principles
• Module 3: Legal Regime Governing Crimes on Board Aircrafts
• Module 4: Air transport an competition law
• Module 5: Introduction
• Module 6: The Cape Town Convention
• Module 7: The Cape Town Convention Bill, 2018
• Module 8: Repossession and export of leased aircraft
• Module 9: Clauses in an Aircraft Lease Agreement

Vikrant Pachnanda is an Advocate having pursued his B.A. LL.B (Hons.) from Gujarat National Law University, Gandhinagar (GNLU), an LLM from Cornell Law School and an LLM in Advanced Air & Space Law from the International Institute of Air & Space Law at Leiden University, Netherlands. He presently judges both the National and International Rounds of the Leiden-Sarin International Air Law Moot, which is held annually and is the one of the only moot court competitions in the field of air law in the world. He had also participated in the said moot court competition both as a GNLU student and as a coach of the GNLU team in the past. He is also an aviation law consultant advising on several aviation related issues such policy related issues amongst others. He was one of the 8 students who were part of the first batch of students that enrolled in the inaugural course of air law at GNLU.

In every walk of life, the process of evaluation takes place in one form or the other. If the evaluation process is eliminated from human life then perhaps the aim of life may be lost. Being in the same line, Enhelion is committed to evaluate the process of learning through its courses.

The enrollee will be evaluated based on two Project Assignments, which would test the analytical understanding of the topics covered in the video lecture. 

The most intriguing aspect of the evaluation process is the time flexibility it affords. You can choose to undergo the evaluation process as and when you are ready for the same.

To be eligible to receive a certificate after successful completion of the course, one is required to secure an overall minimum of 40 percent in the Project Assignments.

Vikrant Pachnanda, practicing advocate is the founder of the Law Chambers. He practices aviation and space law in India and has an extensive experience in the field.