Your Ministry has retained the services of High Tech Company Limited for laboratory installation in a newly constructed hospital. One of the conditions of the contract is that materials should be of European standard and origin. During the process of installation, some materials were not available and High Tech Company ltd decided on its own to buy from an alternative origin. Your ministry feels frustrated and has stopped payments for the work in progress. Preliminary negotiations have failed.

Discuss the essence of Arbitration as a substitute to litigations.