Myles Jackman is an English lawyer who specialises in defending cases related to pornography. Jackman was born in 1974 or 1975, at Basildon Hospital, where his father, a consultant radiologist and his mother, Susan, a radiology technician, worked and met. Jackman was a boarder at The King's School, Canterbury. His father died when Jackman was 18. He read law at the University of the West of England in Bristol, and was diagnosed as dyslexic when aged 37. In March 2016, he was appointed Legal Director of the Open Rights Group.