As the state’s corporate enforcer, it is easy to imagine that Ian Drennan operates in a world of black and white.  After all, laws are either broken, or they are not. Legislation is either violated, or it is not.  An offence has been committed, or not. Yet, Drennan, the chief executive of the state’s newly minted Corporate Enforcement Authority (CEA), often looks for the grey. Yes, he could adopt a dogmatic, almost pedantic, approach to minor offences of company law, dispatching an army of lawyers to the District Court to tackle low-level misdemeanours and misdeeds. But beyond boosting his numbers,…

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