[Tomte]

The Bundesgerichtshof is also Supreme Court for criminal cases.

The phrase "Supreme Court" is indeed problematic, since we have quite a few of them (administrative law, labor law, finance law, social law, plus BGH and BVerfG), but I think it's okay to call the Bundesgerichtshof so.

More okay than calling our Federal Constitutional Court "Supreme Court", at least, since generally speaking the Constitutional Court is not "above" the other courts.

[germanier]

I would be happy with calling it "a German supreme court" (which is maybe misleading but technically correct). The phrasing "the German Supreme Court" implies that there is only one and it's somewhat comparable to the US Supreme Court which are both wrong assumptions.

[justin66]

> The phrase "Supreme Court" is indeed problematic, since we have quite a few of them

The same thing is true in the United States. It's a term that can mean a few different things on the state level, depending on which state you're talking about.