JUDGMENT
In this appeal, the appellants, Japheth S. Asige and S.O. Anyanzwa t/a Asige Keverenge & Anyanzwa Advocates (the Advocates), have challenged the judgement of the High Court at Mombasa, (P.J.O. Otieno, J.) delivered on 23rd June 2017. In that judgment, the High Court ordered the Advocates to render an account to the respondent, Leisure Lodges Limited, of money deposited and paid to them on February 15, 2001 by interim liquidators of the respondent.
The background, in brief, is that by an order of the court made on the October 16, 1996 in Nairobi Winding Up Cause No. 28 of 1996, the High Court appointed Hezekiah Wangombe Gichohi and Geoffrey Kimeu as interim liquidators of the Respondent with their powers restricted to those set out in Section 241 of the since repealed Companies Act, (Cap 486), except Section 241(2) of that Act.
By a letter dated February 15, 2001 (a day before their mandate as interim liquidators of the respondent was terminated by an order of the Court of Appeal…