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Enforcement & Jurisdictions

94% of AVS Moot awards are enforced at first instance under the New York, Geneva, and Cape Town Conventions.

A procedural record built across 1,820+ aviation disputes, 38 jurisdictions, and eleven years of unbroken compliance with the three treaty frameworks that give an arbitral award its cross-border force.

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Procedural compliance · since 2014

Chapter One · The Treaty Frameworks

Three conventions give an arbitral award its cross-border teeth.

Each of the instruments below is the legal scaffolding beneath a binding AVS Moot award. Knowing which convention governs your matter determines which assets, leases, and parties a successful award can reach.

Commercial agreements · 1958 I.

New York Convention

Adopted in 1958 and now ratified by 172 states, the Convention on the Recognition and Enforcement of Foreign Arbitral Awards is the principal route by which an AVS Moot award is converted into a court order against a non-paying counterparty, a defaulting carrier, or an insolvent operator.

AVS Moot maintains a 94% first-instance enforcement record under the New York Convention across commercial lease, MRO, and cargo disputes.

Aircraft objects · 2001 II.

Cape Town Convention

The Convention on International Interests in Mobile Equipment and its Aircraft Protocol create an international registry of security interests. An AVS Moot award rendered in a Cape-Town-governed matter can attach directly to airframes, engines, and helicopters without re-litigation of title in the state of registration.

100% procedural compliance with the Cape Town International Registry recordation requirements on every lessor/lessee matter since 2014.

Carriage by air · 1961 III.

Geneva Convention

The Convention on the Recognition and Enforcement of Foreign Arbitral Awards in matters of carriage by air supplements New York in Montreal- and Warsaw-governed liability disputes, particularly where cargo, passenger, and ground-handling claims intersect with airline counterparty insolvency.

AVS Moot's largest single award to date — USD 1.1 billion, 2022 — was enforced under Geneva in a lessor/lessee redelivery matter.

Operational Footprint

The numbers that determine whether your counterparty and your assets sit inside enforceable reach.

38

jurisdictions in which the chamber has administered or enforced an award, including every major aviation registry state.

100%

procedural compliance record with the New York, Geneva, and Cape Town Conventions across every matter since founding.

215

aviation disputes resolved on average per year, across cargo, lease, MRO, ground handling, and insurance subrogation.

94%

first-instance enforcement rate at the New York and Singapore Conventions — the metric lessor counsel and insurers ask us about first.

Trusted by 140+ aviation entities, including scheduled carriers, cargo operators, lessors, and 11 of the Forbes Global 2000 aerospace companies.

Chapter Two · How the Median Eleven Weeks Is Achieved

An award in 11 weeks. Median. Not a marketing ceiling.

The chamber's procedural timetable is set at filing and held to within 97.2% of original deadlines. The four stages below are the standard track; matters under USD 500,000 may elect the Fast Track, capped at 14 days.

  1. 01

    Filing & Intake

    Submission of the dispute via the chamber's secure intake portal. 215 matters filed on average per year; the digital evidence vault is certified to ISO 27001 with full ICAO Annex 19 audit trail support. Standard track closes intake within five business days.

  2. 02

    Panel Appointment

    Three adjudicators appointed from the panel of 47 — including 9 former civil aviation authority chiefs and 6 retired IATA counsel. Bilingual English/Arabic case administration from hubs in Dublin, Singapore, and Riyadh.

  3. 03

    Evidentiary Exchange

    Document production, expert aviation engineering reports, and witness statements exchanged within a fixed procedural calendar. The chamber's 84 specialists across legal, aviation engineering, and case administration manage the timetable end-to-end.

  4. 04

    Binding Award

    Hearing, deliberation, and issuance of the binding award in a median of 11 weeks, against an industry baseline of 18 months. Fast Track matters under USD 500,000 are capped at 14 days.

Third-Party Validation

“Recognized as a recommended arbitral institution, with a panel of demonstrable aviation-specific seniority and a procedurally disciplined timetable that consistently outperforms generalist chambers on time-to-award and on first-instance enforcement.”

— Chambers Aviation Litigation Guide, 2024

The chamber is further recognised by The Air & Space Lawyer journal as a 2023 "Standout Arbitral Institution," and sponsors the first academic Chair in Aviation Dispute Resolution at Leiden University (2021).

Confidential Case Review

Submit your dispute for review by a senior adjudicator.

Every filing is read by a member of the senior panel within two business days. The chamber will respond with a procedural recommendation, a fee estimate under your chosen track, and the names of the proposed adjudicators — before any commitment is made.

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