Los Angeles: Australian Wade Robson and American James Safechuck, featured in a 2019 documentary alleging sexual abuse by Michael Jackson have been given the go-ahead to pursue claims against two of the late singer's companies.

A California appeals court ruled on Friday, US time, that Robson and Safechuck, who appeared in Leaving Neverland, could pursue their claims because of a change in California law.

Robson and Safechuck say they were befriended by Jackson and were abused by him from the ages of seven and 10 in the early 1990s.

Wade Robson, left, and James Safechuck, who accuse Michael Jackson of molesting them when they were boys, have a tentative ruling that their lawsuits should be reconsidered by the Californian trial court that dismissed them in 2017. Credit:AP

Jackson died in 2009, but the singer's family has denied the claims and described Leaving Neverland as a "public lynching".