Brothers' fight over father's $2.4m estate leads judge to label them 'dysfunctional' MARTY SHARPE123rf Successful Hawke's Bay businessman Jim Burnside died on July 11, 2003. Hawke's Bay brothers Alec and Robert Burnside were sons of Jim Burnside, a successful businessman, who died in 2003. Justice Matthew Palmer found that the brothers' different personal styles had produced clashes in relation to trustee duties. In his ruling of March 29, he removed the brothers as trustees and told them and their sisters to submit recommendations for three independent trustees. Both brothers sought costs.

Source: Stuff August 21, 2017 03:56 UTC