Former High Court judge Baroness Butler-Sloss has apologised for wrongly claiming Fathers4Justice made death threats against her.
Lady Butler-Sloss said while she had received death threats "it was not true" they were from Fathers4Justice.
Cross-bencher Baroness Butler-Sloss, a former family barrister and judge, said there were fathers "who would simply not pay".
Baroness Butler-Sloss, another crossbencher, suggested the government should ask the Law Commission to examine ways of modernising the way legislation is presented.
"I have been to the Masters Series events in the States and grand slams but for setting this beats them all, " said Sloss.
Lady Butler-Sloss told peers she had "not prepared" her remarks, made in an intervention during a discussion on the Crime and Courts Bill.
Former judge and crossbencher Baroness Butler-Sloss agreed, claiming that, unless the cross-party amendment was accepted, a "large number of victims" would "fall through the net".
Lady Butler-Sloss, 73, was thrust into the public eye in the late 1980s during the Cleveland child abuse inquiry which resulted in the Children Act of 1989.
Crossbench peer Baroness Butler-Sloss, a former Lord Justice of Appeal, accused the government of "gesture politics", telling the Lords community orders were already a form of punishment for offenders.
Baroness Butler-Sloss said it was "inappropriate" for all coroners to be trained to deal with such inquests and therefore it was important there was someone with "overall responsibility" to make sure those that did were properly qualified.
The judge in the case, Dame Elizabeth Butler Sloss, will have to decide whether it is ethically right for patients who cannot freely give consent themselves to be subjected to such an "unknown quantity" - even if there is a chance it may help them.
Crossbench peer and chancellor of the University of the West of England Baroness Butler-Sloss said she was concerned that "Malaysian students who come to Bristol to do the bar vocational course or the solicitors course in order to go back and better run the rule of law in Malaysia" would be unable to study in the UK after the changes.
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