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Let us assume the answer is "no". Your next step would be apply to a waiver from the SRA. If it refused to grant one, you could JR that refusal. That is where this is heading: sooner or later, someone (maybe even the Law Society) is going to challenge the SRA, on the basis that solicitors who practise in the conventional manner are being treated unfairly by comparison with those who don't.

On a different point, I have no idea what these changes mean in practice - and it is clear that I am not alone on that front. If qualified lawyers don't understand what is and is not allowed, how is the client/consumer/customer/hapless punter supposed to make any sense of it?