# Kylie Panckhurst General Counsel and Company Secretary ## Career chronology - **Since 2023-10-01: St Barbara Limited** — General Counsel and Company Secretary. [FY26 Financial Results and Directors and Financial Report]() (Management/director profile; current role) ## Litigation and enforcement ### St Barbara litigation over Kirkalocka royalty rights; interlocutory leave granted [sbm_kylie_panckhurst_kirkalocka] 2025 onward; status at cutoff not established in FY26 report · documented · medium materiality A Supreme Court of Western Australia decision dated 23 October 2025 records St Barbara’s application concerning a royalty claim against Kirkalocka Gold SPV, which was in a deed of company arrangement and receivership. The Court granted St Barbara leave to bring and continue the proceeding and approved an interim variation of the DOCA; the declaration over the asserted royalty right was left for a later hearing. Panckhurst’s affidavit supported the company application as in-house counsel, but this was corporate litigation and the judgment makes no adverse finding about her conduct. Latest reviewed FY26 St Barbara reporting does not state the final outcome of the royalty declaration. **Attribution:** Employer context; no individual link established. As General Counsel, Panckhurst participated in the company’s legal process; no personal wrongdoing is alleged or found. **Relevance:** A material legal matter is relevant to GC oversight; procedural relief was obtained, while final determination and economic outcome are not established by the reviewed FY26 report. [St Barbara Limited v Kirkalocka Gold SPV Pty Ltd \[2025\] WASC 453]() (Introduction and orders, \[2025\] WASC 453, paragraphs 1-13 and order schedules); [FY26 Financial Results and Directors’ and Financial Report]() (Legal / contingencies and KMP sections; no final royalty-declaration outcome identified) ## Suitability for the current role ### Role fit supported; individual record remains incomplete [sbm_kylie_panckhurst_role_fit] Evidence cutoff 2026-10-09 · analyst inference · low materiality Dated primary company filings and appointment records now support the disclosed role and relevant parts of the person’s professional background. They do not establish a complete career chronology, independently verify every credential, or provide a broad personal performance or adverse-record conclusion. **Attribution:** Responsibility not applicable. This is a scoped role-fit assessment, not an attribution of a company outcome. **Relevance:** Role alignment matters to execution in the current position, but the reviewed evidence does not establish full delivery or control outcomes. [FY26 Financial Results and Directors and Financial Report]() (Executive or management profile: Kylie Panckhurst; current role and available career detail) ## Evidence gaps - Full dated chronology across previous employers, independent confirmation of education/professional memberships, and targeted regulator/court register searches were not completed; logged open-web searches are not exhaustive clearance checks. - The final outcome of St Barbara’s claimed Kirkalocka royalty right after the October 2025 interlocutory decision was not established in the opened FY26 report or later public source reviewed. - Full dated chronology across previous employers, independent confirmation of education/professional memberships, and targeted regulator/court register searches were not completed; logged open-web searches are not exhaustive clearance checks. - The final outcome of St Barbara’s claimed Kirkalocka royalty right after the October 2025 interlocutory decision was not established in the opened FY26 report or later public source reviewed.