The woman -- who cannot be recognized and is referred to solely as 'JS' -- suffered from a uncommon type of most cancers and expressed a hope to be introduced again to life and cured sooner or later.
She died on October 17 however particulars of the case weren't allowed to be made public till now.
In his judgment, obtained by CNN, Mr Justice Peter Jackson mentioned the woman had expressed her want to be cryogenically frozen.
She wrote: "I've been requested to clarify why I need this uncommon factor executed. I am solely 14 years outdated and I do not need to die, however I do know I'm going to. I feel being cryo-preserved provides me an opportunity to be cured and woken up, even in a whole bunch of years' time. I do not need to be buried underground.
"I need to dwell and dwell longer and I feel that sooner or later they could discover a treatment for my most cancers and wake me up. I need to have this opportunity. That is my want."
Based on the judgment, the woman's dad and mom are divorced and their relationship is "very unhealthy." Her mom was supportive of her want, however her father -- who had not seen his daughter face-to-face since 2008 -- initially was not.
Fears for future
Firstly of proceedings, 's father, who additionally has most cancers, wrote: "Even when the therapy is profitable and [JS] is introduced again to life in as an example 200 years, she could not discover any relative and he or she may not bear in mind issues and he or she could also be left in a determined scenario provided that she is just 14 years outdated and will probably be in america of America."
Nevertheless, he subsequently modified his place, saying he "revered the choices" his daughter was making.
The choose mentioned this fluctuation in his views was comprehensible, including, "No different father or mother has ever been put in his place."
However he emphasised he was not ruling on the science of cryonics, however moderately on the dispute between her dad and mom over who was liable for the preparations after her loss of life.
'Brilliant, clever' woman
The choose additionally mentioned there was little doubt the woman -- described as "a vibrant, clever younger one that is ready to articulate strongly held views on her present scenario" -- had the capability to carry the case to court docket.
"Over current months, JS has used the web to research cryonics: the freezing of a lifeless physique within the hope that resuscitation and a treatment could also be doable within the distant future," he mentioned.
"The scientific concept underlying cryonics is speculative and controversial, and there may be appreciable debate about its moral implications. Then again, cryopreservation, the preservation of cells and tissues by freezing, is now a widely known course of in sure branches of drugs, for instance the preservation of sperm and embryos as a part of fertility therapy.
"Cryonics is cryopreservation taken to its excessive."
The choose dominated in favor of her mom and mentioned the woman had died peacefully, figuring out her needs had been met.
However he cautioned that hospital bosses had had "actual misgivings" about the best way the method was dealt with on the day she died.
The woman's mom was mentioned to have been preoccupied with the preparations after her loss of life than being totally accessible to her little one, he mentioned, and the voluntary group which helped get her physique prepared for preservation was disorganized.
Physique packed in dry ice
The case was mentioned by the choose to be the one one in all its variety to have come earlier than the courts in England and Wales, and possibly wherever else.
The price of the process in america -- which the choose mentioned was about £37,000 ($46,000) -- is being met by her maternal grandparents, he mentioned, though the household just isn't nicely off.
The Cryonics Institute, which relies in Michigan, mentioned the physique of a 14-year-old woman from London arrived at its facility, packed in dry ice, on October 25, about eight days after her loss of life.
"The affected person was then positioned within the pc managed cooling chamber to chill to liquid nitrogen temperature," an announcement posted on its web site mentioned.
"The human cooling program from dry ice was chosen and the time wanted to chill the affected person to liquid nitrogen temperature was 24 hours. The affected person was then positioned in a cryostat for longterm cryonic storage."
The Cryonics Institute mentioned the woman was its 143rd affected person.
Its web site explains the method as "a method supposed to hopefully save lives and significantly lengthen lifespan. It entails cooling legally-dead folks to liquid nitrogen temperature the place bodily decay primarily stops, within the hope that future scientific procedures will sometime revive them and restore them to youth and good well being.
"An individual held in such a state is claimed to be a 'cryopreserved affected person', as a result of we don't regard the cryopreserved individual as being inevitably 'lifeless'."
Can a complete physique survive freezing course of?
Nevertheless, some skepticism stays concerning the science of cryogenics.
Professor Barry Fuller, Professor in Surgical Science and Low Temperature Medication at College Faculty London, mentioned that cryopreservation "has many helpful functions in everyday drugs, akin to cryopreserving blood cells, sperm and embryos."
However, he mentioned, "cryopreservation has not but been efficiently utilized to giant constructions, akin to human kidneys for transplantation, as a result of now we have not but adequately been capable of produce appropriate tools to optimise all of the steps.
"Because of this now we have to say that for the time being now we have no goal proof that a complete human physique can survive cryopreservation with cells which can perform after rearming."
CNN's Simon Cullen and Meera Senthilingam contributed to this report.
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