It's relevant to HP and their shareholders, and it's relevant because there is an ongoing civil case in the UK, which makes this situation on criminal charges in the US more interesting and unusual, and finally it's foundational to Mike Lynch's argument with HP[0].
It's entirely possible that we might see different outcomes in these cases. Maybe a difference in outcome between civil and criminal cases is a more common occurrence than I'm aware of (certainly O. J. Simpson springs to mind), but it seems unusual to me, and especially across international boundaries.
[0] Again, I haven't followed these goings on that carefully, but my impression is he's hewn pretty closely to this line of argument throughout.
It's entirely possible that we might see different outcomes in these cases. Maybe a difference in outcome between civil and criminal cases is a more common occurrence than I'm aware of (certainly O. J. Simpson springs to mind), but it seems unusual to me, and especially across international boundaries.
[0] Again, I haven't followed these goings on that carefully, but my impression is he's hewn pretty closely to this line of argument throughout.