Quantum wrote: ↑28 Feb 2024, 14:58
The complainant takes this to court and you have a massive headache.
Unless the plan is Red Bull paying her off to remain silent. The problem with that course of action is there's no absolution for Horner, and if he's innocent he wouldn't want that to be casting a shadow over the rest of his F1 career.
Not likely.
Just because someone has exercised a conduct that is worthy of an internal company investigation, doesn't mean said conduct rises to the level of of a civil lawsuit.
So unless Horners conduct can be classified as a sexual assault, violence or similar, the case is likely to get dismissed. Even if you were to raise a wrongful termination lawsuit (assuming the employee was fired in the first place), that's still gonna be an entirely different case, with different points being argued, and different evidence being needed. So it won't prove or disprove anything about how Horner has been conducting himself, but rather be about Red Bull HR procedures.
Then there's the other aspect of a potential criminal case. But if Horner had done something illegal, it would likely be in the hands of the police already, and a case would have been opened. So i very much doubt that.