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i would cut the whole top part off, from right to left, aligning with the top of the dense part of the foliated area on the right hand side, giving it a bit of a curve, so what's visible is largely alive looking. If any of the top living branches on the left could be bent inwards, all well and good, but it might look odd so would most likely chop them off
Looks to be a Pittosporum? It's unusual in that it's multi stemmed, the die back is extensive reaching almost down to the trunk in parts. Any amount of judicious pruning and tieing in of healthy branches will not result in a pleasing shape. When you consider the time involved and therefore cost with no guarantee of success we would remove it and replace.
Thankyou for the responses guys
great advice as always
Looks like pittisporum tenuifolium verigatum.
I had to take a 14ft one out this year due to the hard winter. You can cut the dead and hope there's new shoots to replace the old. If we have another hard winter Chances are it will probably do it again.
Pittosporum. I took one down last week, about 12ft, dead to the ground due to the harsh winter conditions. I would cut out all of the dead wood, back to green growth & tidy up the shape as best you can.
Recommendation would be to remove and replant - depending on the budget you could put in an mature something .... if they love it or want you to save it, well then remove the dead bits, mulch and feed it and pray.
Pittosporum are pretty good at re-shoting from old wood. If they love it, I would remove all the dead, pruning into clean wood; then remove some of the outer growth to make it a slightly less weird shape. Hopefully it will re-shoot from the trunks and you can then remove the old sideshoots. Make it clear this has a 50: 50 chance of working. I think it might be worth trying, as it would be a very awkward spot to remove the old root and make a new planting hole.